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- Number Systems of the World by Complexity http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html 3 comments
- Number systems of the world, sorted by complexity of counting (2006) http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html 114 comments
- Number Systems of the World - Not Everyone Uses Base10 http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/language/number.html 19 comments reddit.com
- Venezuela is the Latin American country with the highest number of elections and it also has an automatic electoral system, described by Jimmy Carter, who has observed 92 elections in all continents, as "the best system in the world". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dan-kovalik/in-defense-of-venezuela_b_4824494.html 6 comments worldnews
- NASA Just Found A Solar System With 7 Earth-Like Planets and a Number of These Alien Worlds Likely Have Oceans of Liquid Water. https://futurism.com/nasa-just-found-a-solar-system-with-7-earth-like-planets/ 90 comments space
- The number of people worldwide who are being harmed by their healthcare systems is increasing at a much higher rate than the world's population. More than 50% of the harms in developed nations and 83% of harms in developing nations are preventable https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/early/2024/05/09/bmjqs-2023-016971 25 comments science
- Has a poorly implemented random number system ever caused problems in the real world? https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption/ 34 comments programming
- Mushrooming legal highs leave drug control system floundering, UN warns. Annual world drug report says number of new legal highs available on world market now outstrips number of illicit drugs under international control http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/26/legal-highs-drug-control 6 comments worldnews
- Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill-health worldwide. The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous system has risen dramatically over the past three decades, with 43% of the world’s population – 3.4 billion people – affected in 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/14/neurological-conditions-now-leading-cause-of-ill-health-worldwide-finds-study 487 comments science
- How teams like Romania and Wales have smartly manipulated the FIFA ranking system to get themselves to Numbers 7 and 9 in the world, respectively. http://www.espnfc.us/international-friendly/story/2513448/romania-wales-to-enter-fifa-ranking-top-10 45 comments soccer
- Putin: The use of our weapons in Syria has convincingly demonstrated that the Russian army is now one of the world's leading armies, and we have no equal on a number of armament systems. SPOT ON https://twitter.com/USGOVIgnorance/status/958736185895084032 28 comments russia
- China has almost tripled its number of supercomputers, according to a reputable list of the world's most powerful machines. The country has 109 high-performance computing systems on the biannual Top500 list of supercomputers, up 196% from 37 just six months ago. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34840805 19 comments technology
- NSA leaks reveal GCHQ given access to US 'Dishfire' system that reads hundreds of millions of text messages from around the world. The NSA has to delete innocent texts involving Americans from the system but there is no requirement to do so for foreign phone numbers. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nsa-leaks-reveal-gchq-given-access-to-us-dishfire-system-that-reads-hundreds-of-millions-of-text-messages-from-around-the-world-9065609.html 10 comments worldnews