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  • Now is your chance to learn all about n-th child with plentiful examples.

    Web Teacher › Useful Links: CSS3, Silver Surfer Humbug 2009

  • I found that, by using the linearity of the Σ symbol, I could compute the sum of the n-th power of integers, 1n +

    Toshihide Maskawa - Autobiography 2009

  • I've also trimmed the text a bit; it felt a bit awkward now that I've rearead it for the n-th time.

    In the Limelight - Websites and Blogs of Interest 2008

  • A 1950 postscript, "Matrix Inversion by a Monte Carlo Method," describes how a statistical, random-walk procedure credited to von Neumann and Stan Ulam "can be used to invert a class of n-th order matrices with only n2 arithmetic operations in addition to the scanning and discriminating required to play the solitaire game."

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Keynes begat Samuelson, and on to the n-th generation.

    Most Influential Economist?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Perhaps one day we'll be lucky to see an "n-th" edition of "Cambridge Encyclopedia", where your grandson might be one of the co-authors...

    On not writing a book DC 2009

  • By the n-th time you teach it, you can get away with much less preparation, but even then some of the lectures truly suck.

    Hollywood-Style Lectures Luis von Ahn 2009

  • By the n-th time you teach it, you can get away with much less preparation, but even then some of the lectures truly suck.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Luis von Ahn 2009

  • The research productivity of the current faculty had taken a dive in recent years due to a major revamp of both the undergrad and grad programs as well as a relocation away from the major university campus to a smaller urban campus - the program is now the only one of it's kind in the US which excites my inner nerd to the n-th degree!

    Great expectations Professor in Training 2008

  • The n-th time, though, begins to feel altogether different.

    Giving Credit Where Credit is Due Anxious Black Woman 2008

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