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Compress your strings and numbers
Nobody likes long strings. And nobody likes long numbers either. Luckily there's two ways of compressing strings and one way to compress numbers.
Dictionary Compression
Fun fact: Vyxal has access to a roughly 20k word "dictionary" (read: a list of words) which ca...
"James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher" is an English sentence used to demonstrate lexical ambiguity and the necessity of punctuation,
which serves as a substitute for the intonation, stress, and pauses found in speech.
In human information processing research, the sentence has been used to show how readers depend on punctuation to give sentences meaning, especially in the context of scanning across lines of text. The sentence is sometimes presented as a puzzle, where the solver must add the punctuation.
== Meaning ==
The sentence refers to...
A salted bomb is a nuclear weapon designed to function as a radiological weapon, producing enhanced quantities of radioactive fallout, rendering a large area uninhabitable. The term is derived both from the means of their manufacture, which involves the incorporation of additional elements to a standard atomic weapon, and from the expression "to salt the earth", meaning to render an area uninhabitable for generations. The idea originated with Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilard, in February 1950. His intent was not to propose that such a weapon be built, but to show that nuclear weap...
