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    Strings are used to communicate information from a computer program to the user of the program. A program may also accept string input from its user. Further...
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    of known and predicted protein–protein interactions. The STRING database contains information from numerous sources, including experimental data, computational...
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  • Bit (redirect from Bit of information)
    which is a low power of two. A string of four bits is usually a nibble. In information theory, one bit is the information entropy of a random binary variable...
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  • In physics, string theory is a theoretical framework in which the point-like particles of particle physics are replaced by one-dimensional objects called...
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  • In mathematics and computer science, a string metric (also known as a string similarity metric or string distance function) is a metric that measures...
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  • the Boyer–Moore string-search algorithm is an efficient string-searching algorithm that is the standard benchmark for practical string-search literature...
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  • In computing, a connection string is a string that specifies information about a data source and the means of connecting to it. It is passed in code to...
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  • Look up string in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. String or strings may refer to: String (structure), a long flexible structure made from threads twisted...
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  • String functions are used in computer programming languages to manipulate a string or query information about a string (some do both). Most programming...
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  • or pedals are to be used, whether a string instrument should be bowed or plucked, or whether the bow of a string instrument should move up or down). A...
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    In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...
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    Levenshtein distance (category String metrics)
    In information theory, linguistics, and computer science, the Levenshtein distance is a string metric for measuring the difference between two sequences...
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  • string interning is a method of storing only one copy of each distinct string value, which must be immutable. Interning strings makes some string processing...
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  • Damerau–Levenshtein distance (category String metrics)
    information theory and computer science, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric...
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  • Holographic principle (category Quantum information science)
    The holographic principle is a property of string theories and a supposed property of quantum gravity that states that the description of a volume of space...
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    In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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    Hamming distance (category String metrics)
    required to change one string into the other, or equivalently, the minimum number of errors that could have transformed one string into the other. In a...
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    In computer science, approximate string matching (often colloquially referred to as fuzzy string searching) is the technique of finding strings that match...
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  • available, gives non-perturbative information that cannot be seen directly from the standard genus expansion of string scattering. In particular, following...
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  • physics, a string background refers to the set of classical values of quantum fields in spacetime that correspond to classical solutions of string theory...
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  • algorithm (or KMP algorithm) is a string-searching algorithm that searches for occurrences of a "word" W within a main "text string" S by employing the observation...
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    Digital data, in information theory and information systems, is information represented as a string of discrete symbols, each of which can take on one...
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    the entropy is not a measure in itself. At least in the information theory of a binary string, log 2 {\displaystyle \log _{2}} lends itself to practical...
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  • the fact their outlines appear like a string. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: String Lakes Warren Upham (1920). Minnesota Geographic...
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  • The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers...
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  • Informally, from the point of view of algorithmic information theory, the information content of a string is equivalent to the length of the most-compressed...
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  • hidden in the noise." Gurzadyan, V.G. (2005). "Kolmogorov Complexity, String Information, Panspermia and the Fermi Paradox". Observatory. 125: 352–355. arXiv:physics/0508010...
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    The String Cheese Incident (SCI) is an American jam band from Crested Butte and Telluride, Colorado, formed in 1993. The band is composed of Michael Kang...
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  • mechanics requiring that quantum information be conserved. As no direct experimental evidence supports either string theory in general or fuzzballs in...
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  • Banjo (redirect from Banjo string)
    The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in...
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