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  • 51id10t\ error — Pronounced eye dee ten tee. A common computer error caused when the user has no idea what he s doing. She mistyped her password and claimed the computer wouldn t take it. It was an ID10T error …

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  • 52To take measures — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …

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  • 53To take one's measure — measure meas ure (m[e^]zh [ u]r; 135), n. [OE. mesure, F. mesure, L. mensura, fr. metiri, mensus, to measure; akin to metrum poetical measure, Gr. me tron, E. meter. Cf. {Immense}, {Mensuration}, {Mete} to measure.] 1. A standard of dimension; a… …

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  • 54To take root — Root Root, n. [Icel. r[=o]t (for vr[=o]t); akin to E. wort, and perhaps to root to turn up the earth. See {Wort}.] 1. (Bot.) (a) The underground portion of a plant, whether a true root or a tuber, a bulb or rootstock, as in the potato, the onion …

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  • 55give or take — adverb a) Approximately; plus or minus some unknown amount. He was six feet tall, give or take. b) Approximately; within a certain margin of error. six months, give or take a few days …

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  • 56Navigation — This article is about determination of position and direction on or above the surface of the earth. For other uses, see Navigation (disambiguation). Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. Navigation is the… …

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  • 57Linear least squares (mathematics) — This article is about the mathematics that underlie curve fitting using linear least squares. For statistical regression analysis using least squares, see linear regression. For linear regression on a single variable, see simple linear regression …

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  • 58Linear least squares — is an important computational problem, that arises primarily in applications when it is desired to fit a linear mathematical model to measurements obtained from experiments. The goals of linear least squares are to extract predictions from the… …

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  • 59Linear least squares/Proposed — Linear least squares is an important computational problem, that arises primarily in applications when it is desired to fit a linear mathematical model to observations obtained from experiments. Mathematically, it can be stated as the problem of… …

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  • 60mistake — mis•take [[t]mɪˈsteɪk[/t]] n. v. took, tak•en, tak•ing 1) an error in action, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc 2) a misunderstanding or misconception 3) to regard or identify wrongly as… …

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