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Authors: Michael Kaplan

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collective analysis of
complexity of
computers for
data for
density gradients in
determinism in
earth's rotation and
economic impact of
ensemble prediction in
error in
“fronts” in
global
Greco-Roman sources on
initial conditions in
instruments for
insurance industry and
jet stream in
long-range
maps for
mathematical basis of
military importance of
naval
non-linear nature of
predictions in
probability in
randomness in
reports on
risk assessment and
short-range
simulations of
study of (meteorology)
turbulence in
U.S.
variables in
Weaver, Warren
Weldon, W. F. R.
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Wells, Charles Deville
Westar VI satellite
Wigmore, John Henry
Wigram, Giles (pseud)
Wilderness, battle of the
Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany
Wilson, Sloan
witch of Endor
witnesses
women
Woo, Gordon
word-frequency tests
workers' compensation
Works and Days
(Hesiod)
World War I
World War II,
Wren, Christopher
 
 
X-rays
 
 
Yellowstone National Park
Young, Arthur
 
 
zero:
absolute
double
as mathematical concept
in roulette
zero-sum games
Zeus
Zulu
1
Anicius Manlius Severinus, last of the classical minds, whose desperate attempt to summarize all ancient knowledge was cut short by imprisonment, torture, and death at the hands of Theodoric the Ostrogoth.
2
p(X)
is your chance of loss: damnation, reincarnation or no afterlife at all.

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