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An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan aste…

Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with an area of 33,483 km2 (12,928 sq mi) and population of 2.42 million. Moldova is bordered by Romania to t…

The Wikimedia movement is the global community of contributors to the Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia. This community directly builds and administers these projects with the commitment of a…

Billion is a word for a large number, and it has two distinct definitions:1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the m…

The gigabyte (/ˈ ɡ ɪ ɡ ə b aɪ t , ˈ dʒ ɪ ɡ ə b aɪ t / ) is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one g…

Addition (usually signified by the plus symbol, +) is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic, the other three being subtraction, multiplication, and division. The addition of two whole numb…

Bookselling is the commercial trading of books, which is the retail and distribution end of the publishing process.Cărturești Carusel, a bookshop in a historical building from Bucharest (Romania), …

Givatayim (Hebrew: גבעתיים , lit. 'Two hills') is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the Gush Dan metropolitan area. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah…

A.L.I.C.E. (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity), also referred to as Alicebot, or simply Alice, is a natural language processing chatterbot—a program that engages in a conversation with…

Stigmergy (/ˈ s t ɪ ɡ m ər dʒ i / STIG-mər-jee) is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment …