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2 unusual facts about counting


Counting

Children with Williams syndrome often display serious delays in learning to count.

Homer Defined

In the episode, Homer accidentally saves the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant from meltdown by arbitrarily choosing the emergency override button via a counting rhyme.


1969 Pittsburgh Steelers season

Though his role was more behind-the-scenes, he would remain with the team in that capacity through the 1998 season, second only to Dick Hoak in terms of tenure with the team outside of the Rooney family, third counting Steelers radio commentator Myron Cope, who was not employed by the team but through WTAE Radio and later WDVE on the official Steelers radio network.

3 Tammuz

Gimmel Tammuz (ג בתמוז) is the third day of the tenth month in the Hebrew year counting from Tishrei, which is the fourth month counting from Nisan.

Battle in Heaven

Not counting the opening and ending credits, the film begins and ends with Ana giving Marcos oral sex.

Bratislav Pejčić

He then moved to FK Vlasina Vlasotince in which he played really solid two and a half seasons and became one of the most influential players having played 100 times, and adding six goals, and that's only counting the league matches.

Browser wars

During December 2009 and January 2010, StatCounter reported that its statistics indicated that Firefox 3.5 was the most popular browser, when counting individual browser versions, passing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 by a small margin.

Card counting

From the early days of card-counting, some players have been hugely successful, including Al Francesco, the inventor of blackjack team play and the man who taught Ken Uston how to count cards, and Tommy Hyland, manager of the longest-running blackjack team in history.

Clenshaw–Curtis quadrature

Unlike computation of arbitrary integrals, however, Fourier-series integrations for periodic functions (like f(\cos\theta), by construction), up to the Nyquist frequency k=N, are accurately computed by the N+1 equally spaced and equally weighted points \theta n = n \pi / N for n = 0,\ldots,N (except the endpoints are weighted by 1/2, to avoid double-counting, equivalent to the trapezoidal rule or the Euler–Maclaurin formula).

Cluster chemistry

The polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory or Wade's electron counting rules predict trends in the stability and structures of many metal clusters.

Conspiracy of the Machetes

To accomplish this, they were counting on 1,000 pesos of silver, two pistols, and some 50 cutlasses and machetes to initiate a popular uprising under the patronage of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Count von Count

His first performance of the Count was in a YouTube video called "Counting the Yous in YouTube", a song about the celebration of Sesame Street's YouTube channel reaching 1 billion views.

Counting board

The German mathematicican Adam Ries described the use of counting boards in Rechenbuch auf Linien und Ziphren in allerlei Handthierung / geschäfften und Kaufmanschafft.

Counting coup

Counting coup refers to the winning of prestige in battle by the Plains Indians of North America.

Counting Headz: South Afrika's Sistaz in Hip Hop

Counting Headz was shot primarily in and around Johannesburg, the cultural and commercial capital of South Africa.

Dan Jewett

The album She Likes the Weather was produced by Jewett from a December 1991 studio recording and their original demo tape, produced by Counting Crows guitarist David Bryson.

David Elleray

Counting an own goal against Peter Enckelman during the Second City derby in 2002 after a throw-in back to the goalkeeper.

Don McNeill's Breakfast Club

It remained a fixture on the ABC radio network (formerly the NBC Blue Network; it became known as ABC in 1945), maintaining its popularity for years and counting among its fans Supreme Court Associate Justice William O. Douglas.

Empire Poetry League

Initially having a patriotic impetus, and counting a number of leading literary figures among its supporters (G. K. Chesterton, Humbert Wolfe, L. A. G. Strong and the novelists H. E. Bates and A. G. Street 1892–1966) as members, it shortly became a vehicle for Sydney Fowler Wright (1874–1965), now remembered mainly for

Ernst Schröder

But Leif Ericson probably discovered America "first" (forgive me for not counting the native Americans, who of course really discovered it "first").

Grieves

On February 1, 2010 Rhymesayers Entertainment announced that they had signed Laub to their roster and that Laub would be re-releasing his self-titled album 88 Keys & Counting in conjunction with a new EP called The Confessions of Mr. Modest.

History of post-Communist Albania

In November protests begun in Tirana, led by opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama, against the allegedly rigged vote counting in the 2009 elections.

Human rights in the United Kingdom

The initiative in producing a legally binding human rights agreement had already been taken by the International Council of the European Movement, an organisation whose cause had been championed by Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan, and whose international juridical section (counting Lauterpacht and Maxwell Fyfe amongst its members) had produced a draft convention.

If Women Counted

Margunn Bjørnholt and Ailsa McKay (eds.), Counting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics, with a foreword by Julie A. Nelson, Toronto, Demeter Press/Brunswick Books, 2014, ISBN 9781927335277

João Vitor Ribeiro Rodrigues

João is a native of Caratinga, belonging to the eastern city of Minas Gerais, with a population over 80,000 inhabitants, counting the nearby districts.

John Fund

Fund and Hans von Spakovsky, Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk (Encounter Books, 2012, ISBN 1-59403-618-7)

John Zerzan

In his essay on number, for example, Zerzan starts by contrasting the "civilized" emphasis on counting and measuring with a "primitive" emphasis on sharing, citing Dorothy Lee's work on the Trobriand Islanders in support, before constructing a narrative of the rise of number through cumulative stages of state domination, starting with the desire of Egyptian kings to measure what they ruled.

Kisou

The title of "24個シリンダー" can be romanized as "24 Ko Cylinder", but is typically anglicized as "Twentyfour Cylinders"; "Ko" ("個") is a Japanese counter word and is used for counting military and miscellaneous units.

Ljubljana Zoo

The zoo is notable in that the city is at the intersection of the Alpine, Pannonian, Mediterranean, and Dinaric habitats and has 119 species and (not counting insects) a total of 500 animals.

Lord Asriel

The name Asriel could be derived from the Hebraic name Asriel/Azrael, who, in the Jewish and Muslim tradition is the family of Asriel and is mentioned in the counting of the tribes.

Midrash Eser Galiyyot

Midrash Eser Galiyyot (Hebrew: מדרש עשר גליות) is one of the smaller midrashim and treats of the ten exiles which have befallen the Jews, counting four exiles under Sennacherib, four under Nebuchadnezzar, one under Vespasian, and one under Hadrian.

Munduruku people

Pierre Pica was instrumental (in a work done in collaboration with Stanislas Dehaene and Elizabeth Spelke) in revealing the psychophysics and linguistic properties of the Munduruku counting system to the Western world.

Nuclear electronics

Essential elements of such systems include fast detectors for charged particles, discriminators for separating them by energy, counters for counting the pulses produced by individual particles, fast logic circuits (including coincidence and veto gates), for identification of particular types of complex particle events, and pulse height analyzers (PHAs) for sorting and counting gamma rays or particle interactions by energy, for spectral analysis.

Off-by-one error

One of the earliest fencepost errors involved time, where the Julian calendar originally calculated leap years incorrectly, due to counting inclusively rather than exclusively, yielding a leap year every three years rather than every four.

Oscar Swahn

With this silver medal, he is also the oldest medalist of all time (not counting the art competitions).

Prince of Persia 4

Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, counting only the Sands of Time continuity

Raoul Weiler

During his professional activities, mainly as an ICT-manager at Bayer Antwerpen N.V., he was elected president of the Royal Flemish Engineers Association (K VIV), counting 11.000 academic engineers.

Rupesh Paul

He authored numerous scoops counting the investigative reports on the deaths of Azhikodan Raghavan, the former Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and Nandita, the Malayalam poet.

Sesame Street: Old School

Among the most notable extra segments is one of James Earl Jones counting to 10 (which was actually created before production of the series officially began (it was a test film shown to children to gauge effectiveness of the format), and Jesse Jackson leading a group of children in reciting his poem, "I Am - Somebody".

Shopping cart

In 2004 the British supermarket chain Tesco trialled shopping carts with built in resistance (adjustable from 1 to 10), pulse monitoring and calorie counting hardware in an effort to raise awareness of health issues.

Skip counting

Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC.

Solomon Foot

Abbott Lawrence of Massachusetts, who had worked diligently to obtain the Presidential nomination for Zachary Taylor, expected to be the Vice Presidential nominee, counting on the support of Thurlow Weed of New York and the southern delegates who had backed Taylor for the presidential nomination.

Sweet Home Chicago

In 1932, Jabo Williams recorded "Ko Ko Mo Blues," with the same refrain and included the counting line

The Story of 1

Jones then discusses the Ishango Bone, which must have been used for counting, because there are 60 scratches on each side of the bone.

Training Wheels for Citizenship

The Daily Shows producers invited Sen. Vasconcellos and Sacramento County Registrar Jill LaVine to be interviewed by Rob Corddry, who asked, "Do you ever think of counting blacks as more than one vote to make up for that whole slavery thing? P. Diddy's got to be worth two votes, and Justin Timberlake, he's worth two votes, even though he's not black or anything."

Troccas

Dealer (in Romansh, scartist) will have two odd cards, counting for combined value, minus one point.

United States presidential election, 1820

Nonetheless, during the counting of the electoral votes on February 14, 1821, an objection was raised to the votes from Missouri by Representative Arthur Livermore of New Hampshire.

Walking on a Thin Line

The album was also released in a Limited Digipak edition with two bonus tracks: "Electric Nights" (inserted into the track listing between "Diokhan" and "Quietly") and "Counting the Days" (inserted after "Plastic Mouth")

Zahra Abdulla

However, very near the end of the vote counting, she was beaten out by fellow Green League candidate Outi Alanko-Kahiluoto by only a few hundred votes (4586 vs. 4174).


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