A single character in a numbering system. In decimal, digits are 0 through 9. In binary, digits are 0 and 1.
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- Blog posts 2008-11-26
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- DK Matai, chairman of the ATCA Open has written a very interesting article about global shipping of bulk cargo and how it has come to a halt because of the lack of letters of credit. Just five months ago it cost about $234,000 to rent a 170,000 tonne Capesize...
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- Internet ad revenues reached $5.9 bln in Q3 2008, growth of 11%
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- Blog posts 2008-11-20
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- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- 2009 Mercury Mariner Hybrid
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- Product reviews 2008-11-06
- How cut the nation's health care bill 12%
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-31
- Walmart to sell Android G1 at discount. So what?
- Walmart to sell Android G1 at discount. So what?Sure, I'd like $30, too....but if you're trying to convince me that you wouldn't buy the G1 at full-price anyway if no such Walmart discount was available, then I don't buy your argument. It strikes me that $30 is not going to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-28
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
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- LG enV(2) - black Verizon WirelessEnv2I've been reading a lot of reviews on the LG Env2 phones and would like to elaborate on some of the points of interest of this phone. I can't compare the Env2 to the the first Env. I recently upgraded from the Motorola Razor to...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-26
- Associative arrays and elections data
- Associative arrays and elections dataThis is a very useful data structureand what modern language doesnt provide an implementation of it?Neat as your solution it, I have say though I think you're a little hard on SQL. As this data is probably in a RDMBS anyway, if you can write a...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-25
- Microsoft's first quarter: Outlook light; Recession assumed; Office shines; Online doesn't
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- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- URC Digital R50
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- Product reviews 2008-10-19
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- Malicious attackers are once again taking advantage of event-based social engineering attacks, and are currently mass mailing fake notifications for Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, attaching a copy of Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, next to a legitimately looking PGP signature which is, of course, fake too : "We received some questions from customers about...
- Blog posts 2008-10-14
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- Product reviews 2008-10-14
- Economy-pinched semiconductor industry: How to ride the storm
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- Blog posts 2008-10-09
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- Apple wins royalty rate showdownhigher Rate?the Real price for a song should about 25 cents (this will make it more competive agains "free") but guess the RIAA's members just want more money no matter what. that is why the RIAA must be shutdown as it is the most anti-consumer criminal...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-03
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
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- Blog posts 2008-10-01
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- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
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- Software downloads 2008-09-29
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