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5 unusual facts about sine


Allen Lane

(The book was called Massacre and was by the French cartoonist Siné: it was reportedly deeply offensive.) Lane fired Godwin, and retained control of Penguin, but was forced to retire shortly afterwards after being diagnosed with bowel cancer.

Alpha Waves

The computation of sine and cosines was similarly done using only integer arithmetic.

Georges Wolinski

During the student revolts of May 1968, Wolinski co-founded the satirical magazine L'Enragé with Siné.

Jean Sarkozy

The cartoonist Siné came under sharp criticism and was sacked from his magazine after accusing Jean Sarkozy of converting out of ambition and being sued by the International League against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICRA).

Tony Godwin

In 1967 Penguin's edition of acclaimed French cartoonist Siné's Massacre was published.


Adjournment sine die

Adjournment sine die—as in "The One Hundred Tenth Congress of the United States closed its second session today by adjourning sine die" - is an adjournment until the next session of Congress, there being two sessions to each numbered Congress—e.g., the 110th Congress met in 2007 (first session) and in 2008 (second session).

Electronic Theatre Controls

In 2004, ETC acquired Dutch sine wave-dimming manufacturer IES as well as its industrial weighing and measuring division Penko Engineering BV, both located in Ede, Netherlands.

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

The tag Vita sine litteris mors ('Life without learning is death') is adapted from Epistle 82 (originally Otium sine litteris mors, 'Leisure without learning is death') and is the motto of Derby School and Derby Grammar School in England, Adelphi University, New York, and Manning's High School, Jamaica.

G-funk

The earliest use of sine wave synthesizers and Parliament-Funkadelic-style bass grooves in Dr. Dre's work appeared on N.W.A's single "Alwayz into Somethin'" from their 1991 album Efil4zaggin.

Global Pinoy Cinema

GPC airs mostly Pinoy classic and recent films from various film productions, as well as Musika Sine, EZ Shop, and Philippine Lottery Draw.

Grating

Campbell and Robson promoted using sine-wave gratings by arguing that the human visual performs a Fourier analysis on retinal images.

Heinrich Schenker

Based on conversation with an unnamed Latin scholar, William Helmcke added that it could also be based on a passage from Irenaeus's Adversus Haereses (Against Heresies): sine initio et sine fine, vere et semper idem et eodem modo se habens solus est Deus ("Without beginning and without end, only God continues truly and always the same and in the same way").

Insolation

Trigonometry tells us that the sine of a 30° angle is 1/2, whereas the sine of a 90° angle is 1.

Internal clock

Electronic oscillator, an electronic circuit that produces a periodic, oscillating signal, often a sine wave or a square wave

James Tuchet, 3rd Earl of Castlehaven

He died sine prole 11 October 1686, at Kilcash Castle, County Tipperary, Ireland and was succeeded in the Earldom by his youngest brother Mervyn.

Leonty Magnitsky

In 1703, Magnitsky also produced a Russian edition of Adriaan Vlacq's log tables called Таблицы логарифмов и синусов, тангенсов и секансов (Tables of Logarithms, Sines, Tangents, and Secants).

Maad a Sinig Ama Joof Gnilane Faye Joof

Through the emissaries of the King, Father Gallais was persuaded to take a trip to Diakhao, the capital of Sine.

Maad a Sinig Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb Joof

Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and first president of Senegal, magnified the king of Sine in his famous poem "Joal" in 1945.

The event which is celebrated on 7 and 13 June each year, alternates between Diakhao (Capital of Sine and former residence of the King) and Darou Marnane.

The Kingdom of Sine was divided into cantons and Maad Kumba Ndoffene Fa Ndeb was appointed Superior Chief of Eastern Sine and his rival Prince Kumba Jimit was made Superior Chief of Western Sine.

Martin Lee Stephenson

He also worked within the folk music, neo-folk and World music genres with notable musicians Kuljit Bhamra, Faye Rochelle, Stefan Hannigan, Michael Garrick, Ben Clark {sine}, Ray Hearn,Henry Thomas, Nick Beggs, Chi2, Eduardo,Gary Crosby, Saskia Tomkins and Nigel Eaton.

Mickey Hart's Mystery Box

Robin Millarmarimba on "The Sandman", sine bass on "Only the Strange Remain", "Sangre de Cristo", keyboards on "John Cage is Dead"

Seal of Colorado

It is also of interest "The Luttrell Psalter", a famous medieval manuscript dated by the 14th century, contains inside its binding an armorial bookplate of Thomas Weld (1750–1810) of Lulworth Castle, one of the book's owners, and the motto on the plate's ribbon reads "nil sine numine".

Trudis Liit

Like all Sine Novela installments, Trudis Liit is based on a movie; this one made in 1963, starring Lolita Rodriguez, Luis Gonzales, Bella Flores and Vilma Santos.

Yamaha AN1x

Available waveforms include PWM-capable saw and square, saw2 (behaves in a different way than "saw" when used with PWM), a saw/square "mix", additional waves (Inner1-3) for OSC1 in oscillator sync mode, triangle and sine by altering the Edge of pulse waves (or any wave for the sine), and various intermediate waves available through Edge.


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