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  • Mr. Shechtman, who last week won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is credited with the discovery in 1982 of quasicrystals, patterned but nonrepeating atomic structures that resemble the mosaics found in medieval Islamic art.

    Chemistry's Cinderella Story 2011

  • “Mister Torvig and I noted a curious, nonrepeating anomalous reading on the subspace sensors,” said the beachball-sized artificial intelligence.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “Mister Torvig and I noted a curious, nonrepeating anomalous reading on the subspace sensors,” said the beachball-sized artificial intelligence.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • “Mister Torvig and I noted a curious, nonrepeating anomalous reading on the subspace sensors,” said the beachball-sized artificial intelligence.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • The number is termed phi, and like its brother pi, the order of its digits is mysteriously unending and seemingly nonrepeating.

    The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

  • No matter how far mathematicians carry out the division, the numbers keep appearing in a seemingly nonrepeating and unpredictable fashion.

    The G.O.D. Experiments Gary E. Schwartz 2006

  • Limits she and Enterprise had just smacked into pretty hard: The nonrepeating signal.

    Rosetta Stern, Dave 2006

  • By scrutinizing earlier descriptions of them, when they were still regarded as nonrepeating phe - nomena, he identified periodic returns of the same body.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

  • Apple did not offer an explanation, but a spokeswoman, Natalie Harrison, acknowledged that the company was "aware of an issue related to nonrepeating alarms set for January 1 or 2."

    NYT > Home Page By NICK BILTON 2011

  • Apple did not offer an explanation, but a spokeswoman, Natalie Harrison, acknowledged that the company was "aware of an issue related to nonrepeating alarms set for January 1 or 2."

    NYT > Home Page By NICK BILTON 2011

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