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  2. Stock market index - Wikipedia

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    Stock market indices may be categorized by their index weight methodology, or the rules on how stocks are allocated in the index, independent of its stock coverage. For example, the S&P 500 and the S&P 500 Equal Weight each cover the same group of stocks, but the S&P 500 is weighted by market capitalization, while the S&P 500 Equal Weight places equal weight on each constituent.

  3. Cryptocurrency and crime - Wikipedia

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    Massachusetts police said they paid a 2 bitcoin ransom in November 2013, worth more than $1,300 at the time, to decrypt one of their hard drives. Bitcoin was used as the ransom medium in the WannaCry ransomware. One ransomware variant disables internet access and demands credit card information to restore it, while secretly mining bitcoins.

  4. Incest taboo - Wikipedia

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    An incest taboo is any cultural rule or norm that prohibits sexual relations between certain members of the same family, mainly between individuals related by blood. All known human cultures have norms that exclude certain close relatives from those considered suitable or permissible sexual or marriage partners, making such relationships taboo.

  5. Market profile - Wikipedia

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    Section Headings for "CBOT Market Profile, 1986" are: Using the CBOT Market Profile to Improve Performance; The Profile: The link Between CBOT Data and the Market; Part I What the Market is Doing: The Market Profile Graphic; Part II The Condition of the Market: Liquidity Data Bank; Appendix

  6. Pi - Wikipedia

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    In the 1967 Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold", an out-of-control computer is contained by being instructed to "Compute to the last digit the value of π ". [46] In the United States, Pi Day falls on 14 March (written 3/14 in the US style), and is popular among students.

  7. Exponential growth - Wikipedia

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    where x 0 is the value of x at time 0. The growth of a bacterial colony is often used to illustrate it. One bacterium splits itself into two, each of which splits itself resulting in four, then eight, 16, 32, and so on. The amount of increase keeps increasing because it is proportional to the ever-increasing number of bacteria.

  8. Conglomerate discount - Wikipedia

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    Conglomerate discount is an economic concept describing a situation when the market values a diversified group of businesses and assets at less than the sum of its parts. The explanation of this phenomenon comes from a conglomerate 's inability to manage various and different businesses as well as do focused companies .

  9. Wall Street Crash of 1929 - Wikipedia

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    The Dow Jones Industrial Average, 1928–1930. The "Roaring Twenties", the decade following World War I that led to the crash, was a time of wealth and excess.Building on post-war optimism, rural Americans migrated to the cities in vast numbers throughout the decade with hopes of finding a more prosperous life in the ever-growing expansion of America's industrial sector.