Along with simple shortenings such as n. or num., one of the more curious methods is the number sign or hash symbol, #. And as that symbol gradually simplified and merged together over time, our ...

I love the word ineluctable. Can’t say I’ve ever had occasion to use it, but it rolls around in my mind like an unset cabochon. And what, exactly, is a cabochon? A cabochon is a polished, but ...

If you learn just 10 Old English words today, let them be these from Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon: A Day’s Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language. “There is a single Old English word ...

Have you ever heard of FINDSTR and Select-String? Select-String is a cmdlet that is used to search text & the patterns in input strings & files. It is similar to grep on Linux & FINDSTR on Windows. In ...

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next. AI’s integration into our lives is ...

This calculation gives a more accurate picture of a company's earnings. Weighted averages consider the duration each share count is valid to accurately reflect earnings per share. A weighted average ...

Every federal agency in the U.S. is currently trying to figure out how to purge forbidden words from documents posted online, in a desperate attempt to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive ...

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How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”? According to formidable AI products like GPT-4o and Claude, the answer is twice. Large language models (LLMs) can write essays and ...

Are you working on a writing project and need to keep track of your character and word counts? Or maybe you're a developer who wants to add file analysis capabilities to your Python scripts? Either ...