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variant and doubling
* Alice Chess rules can really be adopted by practically any other chess variant too, by simply doubling the number of gameboards in the variant and applying the Alice piece transfer policy.

variant and cube
The cube attack requires 2 < sup > 30 </ sup > steps to break a variant of Trivium where the number of initialization rounds is reduced to 735 ; the authors speculate that these techniques could lead to a break for 1100 initialisation rounds, or " maybe even the original cipher ".

variant and is
In the variant of German that is spoken in Germany, the words stehen ( to stand ) and gestehen ( to confess ) are identical in the present perfect: habe gestanden.
" Artiste " ( the French for artist ) is a variant used in English only in this context.
Strictly speaking, the AES standard is a variant of Rijndael where the block size is restricted to 128 bits.
AES is a variant of Rijndael which has a fixed block size of 128 bits, and a key size of 128, 192, or 256 bits.
ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ, which is far more common in the sources than the variant form Abraxas, ΑΒΡΑΞΑΣ ) was a word of mystic meaning in the system of the Gnostic Basilides, being there applied to the “ Great Archon ” ( Gk., megas archōn ), the princeps of the 365 spheres ( Gk., ouranoi ).
" The more accurate " amarant " is an archaic variant.
A variant of the Eastern Arabic numerals used in the Persian and Urdu languages is shown as East Arabic-Indic.
In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme.
In other cases, the speaker is able to select freely from free variant allophones, based on personal habit or preference.
Because this protein gp120 is necessary for HIV to attach, it does not change across different strains and is a point of vulnerability across the entire range of the HIV variant population.
The word " allele " is a short form of allelomorph (' other form '), which was used in the early days of genetics to describe variant forms of a gene detected as different phenotypes.
A folkloric note about caña quemada: until June 21 it is traditional to drink caña quemada with ruda macho ( a variant of common rue ), it is supposed that this mixture prevents the flu and other illnesses.
This fish, especially the blind variant, is reasonably popular among.
Amok is also sometimes considered one of the subcategories of dissociative disorders ( cross-cultural variant ).
In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).
Kernighan is also known as a coiner of the expression " What You See Is All You Get ( WYSIAYG )", which is a sarcastic variant of the original " What You See Is What You Get " ( WYSIWYG ).
A variant of this sequence alignment is used in the sequencing process itself.
There is also a variant in Bolivia when it is played in a Chakana or Inca Cross grid, which adds more complications to the game.
A variant played in Poland allows a player to claim a region of several squares as soon as its boundary is completed.

variant and .
And find in the answer a license to be a variant of the human species.
His views, in fact, coincide with those of foreign enemies of peaceful coexistence, who look upon it merely as a variant of the `` cold war '' or of an `` armed peace ''.
This dish much resembles the oysters Rockefeller made famous by Antoine's in New Orleans, though the Palace chef announced it as a variant of Manning's roast oysters.
Since the Protestant clergy for the most part wear gray or some variant from the wholly black suit, my Roman collar and black garb usually identify me in England as a Roman Catholic cleric.
A Cursive Hebrew variant developed from the early centuries CE, but it remained restricted to the status of a variant used alongside the non-cursive.
The 2 exceptions are the " non-standard " or " non-canonical " pyrrolysine — found only in some methanogenic organisms but not humans — and selenocysteine ; both of these are encoded via variant codons signaled by mRNA instead.
A distinctive West Arabic variant of the symbols begins to emerge around the 10th century in the Maghreb and Al-Andalus, called ghubar (" sand-table " or " dust-table ") numerals, which are the direct ancestor of the modern Western Arabic numerals used throughout the world.
An unusual variant of the Electron was sold by British Telecom Business Systems as the BT Merlin M2105 Communications Terminal.
Early on, the Soviets built the KV-2, a variant of the KV-1 heavy tank with a short-barreled 152 mm howitzer mounted in an oversized turret.
A variant of the AA compiler included run-time support for a top-down recursive descent parser.
For the vertical-launch variant, see RUM-139 VL-ASROC.
Another variant of that idea was the perforated paper tape.

doubling and cube
Video of a game of backgammon, showing movement around the board, entering from the bar, formation of primes, use of the doubling cube and bearing off
To speed up match play and to provide an added dimension for strategy, a doubling cube is usually used.
The doubling cube is not a die to be rolled but rather a marker, in the form of a cube with the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 inscribed on its sides, denoting the current stake.
At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing ; the cube is then said to be " centered, on 1 ".
If the opponent drops the doubled stakes, he loses the game at the current value of the doubling cube.
Although 64 is the highest number depicted on the doubling cube, the stakes may rise to 128, 256, and so on.
In money games, a player is often permitted to " beaver " when offered the cube, doubling the value of the game again, while retaining possession of the cube.
The opponent retains the doubling cube.
Such a move adds greatly to the risk of having to face the doubling cube coming back at 8 times its original value when first doubling the opponent ( offered at 2 points, counter offered at 16 points ) should the luck of the dice change.
" If both opponents roll the same opening number, the doubling cube is incremented on each occasion yet remains in the middle of the board, available to either player.
To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.
After the Crawford game, normal use of the doubling cube resumes.
Other constructions that were proved impossible include doubling the cube and squaring the circle.
In the case of doubling the cube, the impossibility of the construction originates from the fact that the compass and straightedge method involve first-and second-order equations, while doubling a cube requires the solution of a third-order equation.
He discovered a way to solve the problem of doubling the cube using parabolae.
For instance paper folding may be used for angle trisection and doubling the cube.
Many of these problems are easily solvable provided that other geometric transformations are allowed: for example, doubling the cube is possible using geometric constructions, but not possible using straightedge and compass alone.

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