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A right triangle whose legs are in the ratio 2:1 is sometimes known as a "dom," a name derived from "half a domino." The name was suggested by Andrew Clarke and preferred in ...

The Dottie number is the name given by Kaplan (2007) to the unique real root of cosx=x (namely, the unique real fixed point of the cosine function), which is 0.739085... ...

Hex is a two-player game invented by Piet Hein in 1942 while a student at Niels Bohr's Institute for Theoretical Physics, and subsequently and independently by John Nash in ...

The Nauru graph is the name given by Eppstein (2007) to the generalized Petersen graph GP(12,5) on 24 nodes and 36 edges which is also cubic symmetric graph F_(024)A, the ...

The orthojoin of a point X=l:m:n is defined as the orthopole of the corresponding trilinear line lalpha+mbeta+ngamma. In other words, the orthojoin of Kimberling center X_i ...

By way of analogy with the eban numbers, aban numbers are defined as numbers whose English names do not contain the letter "a" (i.e., "a" is banned). Note that this ...

2^(60)=1024^6 bytes. Although the term exabyte is sometimes used to refer to 1024^6 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming convention of 1 exabyte ...

2^(30)=1024^3=1073741824 bytes. Although the term gigabyte is sometimes used to refer to 1024^3 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming convention ...

2^(10)=1024 bytes. Although the term kilobyte is sometimes used to refer to 1024 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming convention of 1 kilobyte ...

2^(20)=1024^2=1048576 bytes. Although the term megabyte is almost universally used to refer to 1024^2 bytes, such usage is deprecated in favor of the standard SI naming ...