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    Algol variables or Algol-type binaries are a class of eclipsing binary stars that are similar to the prototype member of this class, β Persei (Beta Persei...
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    constellation of Perseus and one of the first non-nova variable stars to be discovered. Algol is a three-star system, consisting of Beta Persei Aa1, Aa2...
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  • to ALGOL 68. ALGOL 68 features include expression-based syntax, user-declared types and structures/tagged-unions, a reference model of variables and...
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    ALGOL (/ˈælɡɒl, -ɡɔːl/; short for "Algorithmic Language") is a family of imperative computer programming languages originally developed in 1958. ALGOL...
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  • ALGOL 60 (short for Algorithmic Language 1960) is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It followed on from ALGOL 58 which had...
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    For loop (redirect from Counter variable)
    in defining ALGOL 58 and ALGOL 60. The loop body is executed "for" the given values of the loop variable. This is more explicit in ALGOL versions of the...
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    oldest preserved historical document of the discovery of a variable star, the eclipsing binary Algol. Aboriginal Australians are also known to have observed...
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  • ALGOL W is a programming language. It is based on a proposal for ALGOL X by Niklaus Wirth and Tony Hoare as a successor to ALGOL 60. ALGOL W is a relatively...
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  • ALGOL 58, originally named IAL, is a member of the ALGOL family of computer programming languages. It was an early compromise design soon superseded by...
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  • variables. On the other hand, many ALGOL-derived languages allow any number of nested levels of visibility, with private variables, functions, constants and types...
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  • Look up Algol or ALGOL in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Algol is a star system. Algol or ALGOL may also refer to: Algol variable or Algol-type binaries...
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  • −00° 17′ 56.7″ 2.20 -5.8 916 B0III+O9V component of the Mintaka system; Algol variable, Vmax = 2.20m, Vmin = 2.32m, P = 5.73 d ι Ori ι 44 37043 26241 05h 35m...
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    system is the prototype of a group of eclipsing binary stars named Algol variables, though it has a third member to make up what is actually a triple...
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  • allocated as required at run time. Static variables date at least to ALGOL 60 (1960), where they are known as own variables: A declaration may be marked with...
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  • of ALGOL 60. Representative language specifications follow: ALGOL 60 (1960) The following kinds of quantities are distinguished: simple variables, arrays...
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  • 1SWASP J093010.78+533859.5 (category Algol variables)
    The first pair of stars, J093010A, is a detached eclipsing binary (an Algol variable). The two stars within J093010A orbit with a period of about 1.3 days...
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  • Svolopoulos, Sotirios (1988). "Spectral types of 80 early-type stars of variable radial velocity". Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 100: 828. Bibcode:1988PASP...
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  • Archived from the original on 2012-02-27. Retrieved 2010-07-16. "AAVSO Website". American Association of Variable Star Observers. Retrieved 9 March 2014....
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    Mira (category Mira variables)
    variable star discovered, with the possible exception of Algol. It is the prototype of the Mira variables. The system lies at a distance of 300 light-years (92...
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  • 5.52 1.97 168 A3V suspected variable RR Lyn RR 44691 30651 06h 26m 25.86s +56° 17′ 06.2″ 5.53 0.93 271 A3m Algol variable, Vmax = 5.52m, Vmin = 6.03m...
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  • Beta Cephei variables, also known as Beta Canis Majoris stars, are variable stars that exhibit small rapid variations in their brightness due to pulsations...
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    Epsilon Aurigae (category Algol variables)
    Light Changes of Epsilon Aurigae), where he suggested the star was an Algol variable and an eclipsing binary. The first hypothesis, set forth in 1937 by...
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  • of automatic variables in recursive (and nested) functions in a lexically scoped language was introduced to the wider audience with ALGOL in the late 1950s...
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    Beta Aurigae (category Algol variables)
    system is believed to be a stream member of the Ursa Major Moving Group. Algol Capella Alsephina van Leeuwen, F. (November 2007), "Validation of the new...
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  • syntax sources include Fortran, Pascal, BASIC, C, C++, Java, Lisp, and ALGOL. Variable declarations are typically omitted. Function calls and blocks of code...
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  • Gerard Kuiper, including: KUI 91AB, a variable star of Delta Cephei type KUI 93AB, an eclipsing binary of Algol variable type Kui (Chinese mythology) 夔, a...
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    RW Persei (category Algol variables)
    Lindemann Award from the Astronomische Gesellschaft. He classified it as an Algol variable and found a period of 13.196 days. Enebo refined the period to 13.1989...
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  • subroutines. assignment Fortran: variable = expression Pascal, Algol 60, Ada: variable := expression; C, C#, C++, PHP, Java: variable = expression; call Fortran:...
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    Y Cygni (category Algol variables)
    V.; et al. (2009). "VizieR Online Data Catalog: General Catalogue of Variable Stars (Samus+ 2007-2013)". VizieR On-line Data Catalog: B/GCVS. Originally...
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    days. Even further north is FL Lyrae, a much fainter 9th-magnitude Algol variable that drops by half a magnitude every 2.18 days during the primary eclipse...
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