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    Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor...
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    Benford's law, also known as the Newcomb–Benford law, the law of anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an observation that in many real-life sets...
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  • recently, it has also become useful to calculate spacecraft trajectories. Simon Newcomb (12 March 1835–11 July 1909) was a Canadian-American astronomer who...
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  • Tennessee, an unincorporated community Newcomb (lunar crater), named after Simon Newcomb Newcomb (Martian crater) Newcomb–Tulane College, located in New Orleans...
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  • Simon Newcomb OAM (born 11 August 1938) is an Australian former representative rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 1964 Summer Olympics...
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    fictional character Moriarty on the Canadian-American astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb was revered as a multitalented genius, with a special mastery of...
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  • Around the Sun) is a work by the American astronomer and mathematician Simon Newcomb, published in volume VI of the serial publication Astronomical Papers...
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  • known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb started at the Lawrence...
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  • In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of...
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    USS Simon Newcomb (AGSC-14/YMS-263) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy during World War II, and whose task...
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