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#REDIRECT [[2826: Gold]]
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I always assumed it was because of gold's use in high-end electronics. It assures a corrosion free and high bandwid
:This is also good idea, but note that it shares the little issue of gold being used for wedding rings way longer than someone discovered what bandwi
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#REDIRECT [[1310: Goldbach Conjectures]]
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...trapolation on primes from there. Thus, this nearly proves the very strong Goldbach conjecture, excluding one. Should this be noted in the explanation? [[S
...the matter up. It's potentially more complicated than a simple error; in Goldbach's day, people still sometimes thought of 1 as a prime number (which sim
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...in software design. Means overkill. https://sourcemaking.com/antipatterns/golden-hammer
:A good, brief explanation of golden hammer is found here:
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#REDIRECT [[801: Golden Hammer]]
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#REDIRECT [[2322: ISO Paper Size Golden Spiral]]
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...curves through a set of squares whose side lengths shrink according to the Golden Ratio. The result looks rather like [[Randall|Randall's]] drawing here.
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I understand why it annoys mathematicians (it's not the golden ratio), but why does it annoy graphics designers? Please add explanation
...he persistent myth that there is something inherently beautiful about the "golden ratio" in the first place, but unfortunately they are probably not in the
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I do own a Gold Medal here and I do not care.
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...published). He was most dominant in the 2008 Beijing Olympics where he won gold in all of the eight events in which he competed, the record for a single ga
:Michael Phelps: Woo! 18 gold medals!
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...here the two concepts meet, the pendulum-like motion of objects (such as a gold pocketwatch on a chain) is stereotypically used in portrayals of psychology
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===xkcd Gold===
[[File:umwelt xkcd gold.png]]
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...he box, both the EU and the USA have more debt than the total value of all gold in the world.
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...d not the revolving 'head' element. The quote "Maybe if we dropped all the gold" MAY be a reference to the Firefly episode "Jaynestown", in which Jayne sac
...rence to {{w|The Mysterious Island}}, where the survivors have to drop the gold in their hot air balloon to prevent losing altitude.
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:Wedge Antilles: "Copy, Gold Leader. I'm already on my way out."
:X-Wing pilot [over radio]: Copy that, Gold Leader. I'm already on my way out.
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| Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted
::Copper, tin, lead, gold, and nickel all exhausted
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...w this is a really old comic, but I'm wondering if it's possible that the 'gold' thing was a reference to Firefly? (I.e., "Jaynestown") Just because in oth
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...sswords for porn websites on the internet! I'm sitting on 150 gigabytes of gold and pleasure, and it's all thanks to them. '''[[User:Davidy22|<u>{{Color|pu
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...ight also be "earrings" (because Au is the chemical symbol for gold, and a gold pair could be earrings). The word "start" is often a hint to take just the
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...ight also be "earrings" (because AU is the chemical symbol for gold, and a gold pair could be earrings). The word "start" is often a hint to take just the
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...l prostitutes into cars), maybe she is indeed a {{w|Hooker with a heart of gold|cute girl in pain}}. Now that's food for thought! --[[User:Pnariyoshi|Pnari
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...oinage (and subserviant coinage), but we'd long since transitioned to the 'gold by proxy' situation.
...not still made of gold itself (probably none of them, BICBW), is 'off the Gold Standard', and there's effectively as much money in a country as a governme
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*The {{w|Gold Line (Los Angeles Metro)|Gold Line}} and the {{w|Orange Line (Los Angeles Metro)|Orange Line}} are shown
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The anthropomorphized doors are much like those in the starship Heart of Gold in Douglas Adams' ''{{w|Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy}}''. In the story,
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...nbsp;kg of "cheap" jewelry has several times the volume than 20 kg of gold jewelry, because of the difference in density.)
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...the basis for their currency. This entire joke is an allegory for the {{w|Gold Standard}}, which Ron Paul is a personal advocate of, even though it is no
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...t says any specific test that purports to be the best measure of IQ is the gold standard. In the US and many (perhaps most) other English-speaking countrie
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5 Gold iPhones!!! --[[User:DanB|DanB]] ([[User talk:DanB|talk]]) 14:44, 23 Decemb
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