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"What cruel fate! What torture the bugs will this day put me to!"
--Aristophanes, 420 B.C.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those that
understand binary and those that don't.
| Ramon Lull | | | | | | 1235-1315
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| John Napier | | | | | | 1550-1617
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| Henry Briggs | | | | | | 1561-1630
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| Wilhelm Schickard | | | | | | 1592-1635
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| Rene Grillet | | | | | | 1600s
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| Gaspard Schott | | | | | | 1608-1666
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| Blaise Pascal | | | | | | 1623-1666
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| Samuel Morland | | | | | | 1625-1695
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| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | | | | | | 1646-1716
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| Pierre Jacquet-Droz | | | | | | 1700s
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| Wolfgang von Kempelen | | | | | | 1734-1804
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| Joseph-Marie Jacquard | | | | | | 1752-1834
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| Baron Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier | | | | | | 1768-1830
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| Pehr Georg Scheutz | | | | | | 1785-1873
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| Charles Babbage | | Teignmouth, Devonshire | GB | | | 12/26/1791-1871(London) | |
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| George Boole | | Lincoln | GB | | | 11/2/1815-12/8/1864 | |
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| Countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada | | | | | | 1816-1852
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| Mathew B. Brady | | Saratoga Springs | NY | | | 1823-1896 | |
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| Martin Wiberg | | | | | | 1826-1905
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| William Stanley Jevons | | | | | | 1835-1882
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| Henry Adams | | | | | | 1838-1918
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| Ram\'on Verea | | | | | | 1838-1899
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| John Shaw Billings | | | | | | 1839-1913
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| John Henry Patterson | | | | | | 1844-1922
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| John K. Gore | | | | | | 1845-1910
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| Willgodt Theophil Odhner | | | | | | 1845-1905
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| Joseph Boyer | | | | | | 1848-1905
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| George Barnard Grant | | | | | | 1849-1917
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| Charles Ranlett Flint | | | | | | 1850-1934
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| Ernst Georg Fischer | | | | | | 1852-1935
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| Leonardo Torres y Quevcdo | | | | | | 1852-1936
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| Allan Marquand | | | | | | 1853-1924
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| George Winthrop Fairchild | | | | | | 1854-1924
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| George Eastman, Jr. | | Waterville | NY | | | 7/12/1854-3/14/1932 | |
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| William Seward Burroughs | | | | | | 1855-1898
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| Lyman Frank Baum | | | | | | 1856-1919
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| Alfred Blake Dick | | | | | | 1856-1934
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| Carl George Lange Barth | | | | | | 1860-1939
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| Herman Hollerith | | | | | | 1860-1929
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| Herman Hollerith | | | | | | 1860-1929
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| Vilhelm Bjerknes | | | | | | 1862-1951
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| Maurice d'Ocagne | | | | | | 1862-1938
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| Dorr Eugene Felt | | | | | | 1862-1930
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| Annibale Pastore | | | | | | 1868-1936
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| Leon Bollee | | | | | | 1870-1913
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| Edward Andrew Deeds | | | | | | 1874-1960
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| Thomas John Watson | | | | | | 1874-1956
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| David Lewelyn Wark (D.W.) Griffith | | near Louisville | KY | | | 1/22/1875-7/23/1948(Hollywood Knickerbocker hotel)
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| James Wares Bryce | | | | | | 1880-1949
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| Percy E. Ludgate | | | | | | 1884-1952
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| Clark Hull | | | | | | 1884-1952
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| James Henry Rand | | | | | | 1886-1968
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| John Logie Baird | | Helensburgh | Scotland | | | 1888-6/1946
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| Theodore Henry Brown | | | | | | 1888-1973
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| Clair D. Lake | | | | | | 1888-1958
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| Fritz Lang | | Vienna | Austria | | | 12/5/1890-8/2/1976(Beverly Hills, CA) | |
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| Vannever Bush | | | | | | 1890-1974
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| William Frederick Friedman | | | | | | 1891-1969
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| Leslie John Comrie | | | | | | 1893-1950
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| Alfred Blake Dick, Jr. | | | | | | 1894-1954
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| Norbert Wiener | | Columbia | MO | | | 1894-1964
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| Leslie Richard Groves | | | | | | 1896-1970
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| Douglas Rayner Hartree | | | | | | 1897-1958
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| Ernest Galen Andrews | | | | | | 1898-1980
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| Boris Artybasheff | | | | | | 1899-1965
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| Howard Hathaway Aiken | | Hoboken | NJ | | | 3/9/1900-3/14/1973(St. Louis)
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| Donald Alexander Flanders | | | | | | 1900-1958
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| Harold Lock Hazen | | | | | | 1901-1980
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| Alfred Tarski | | | | | | 1901-1983
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| Wallace John Eckert | | | | | | 1902-1971
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| Mina Spiegal Rees | | | | | | 1902-10/25/1997
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| John Vincent Atanasoff | | Hamilton | NY | | | 10/4/1903-66/15/1995 | |
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| John Louis von Neumann | | Budapest | Hungary | | | 12/28/1903-2/8/1957
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| John Grist Brainerd | | | | | | 1904-1988
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| Alston Scott Househoulder | | | | | | 1904
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| George Stibitz | | | | | | 1904-1995 | | invented first digital computer.
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| Derrick Henry Lehmer | | | | | | 1905-1991
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| George Robert Stibitz | | | | | | ~1904-1/31/1995(Hanover, NH)
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| Grace Brewster Murray Hopper | | New York | NY | | | 1/9/1906-1/1/1992(Alexandria, VA) | |
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| Reynold B. Johnson | | | | | | 1906
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| Gordon S. Brown | | | | | | 1907
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| John William Mauchly | | | | | | 1907-1980
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| Antonin Svoboda | | | | | | 1907-1980
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| John W. Mauchly | | | | | | 1908-1980 | | co-inventor with J. Presper Eckert of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac.
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| James Franklin Forster | | | | | | 1908-1972
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| John Hamilton Curtiss | | | | | | 1909-1977
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| William Bradford Shockley | | | | | | 1910
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| Konrad Zuse | | Berlin-Wilmersdorf | DE | | | 6/22/1910 | |
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| Richard Goodman | | | | | | 1911-1966
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| Cuthbert C. Hurd | | | | | | 1911
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| John Aleksander Rajchman | | | | | | 1911-1989
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| Louis (Moll) Nicot Ridenour, Jr. | | | | | | 1911-1959
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| Frederic Calland (Freddie/F.C.) Williams | | Romiley | GB | | | 1911-1977
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| William C. Norris | | south-central | NE | | | 7/16/1911
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| Dave Packard | | | | | | 1912
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| Alan Mathison Turing | | Paddington, London | GB | | | 6/23/1912-6/8/1954(Wilmslow, Cheshire) | |
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| Julian Bigelow | | | | | | 1913
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| Herman Heine Goldstine | | | | | | 1913
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| Simon Ramo | | | | | | 1913
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| Maurice Vincent Wilkes | | Dudley, Staffordshire | GB | | | 6/26/1913
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| Dean Everett Wolldridge | | | | | | 1913
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| George Bernard Dantzig | | | | | | 1914
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| Walter W. Jacobs | | | | | | 1914-1982
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| Thomas John Watson, Jr. | | | | | | 1914
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| Arthur Walter Burks | | | | | | 1915
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| Borje Langefors | | | | | | 1915
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| Nicholas C. (Nick) Metropolis | West Side | Chicago | IL | | | 6/11/1915-10/17or18/1999(Sombrillo Nursing Facility, Los Alamos, NM)
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| Harry Douglas Huskey | | | | | | 1916
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| Claude Elwood Shannon | | Gaylord | MI | | | 1916
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| Herbert Alexander Simon | | | | | | 1916
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| Herbert A. Simon | | Milwaukee | WI | | | 1916-2/2001(Pittsburgh, PA)
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| Irving John (Jack) Good | | London | GB | | | 12/9/1916
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| Jule Gregory Charney | | | | | | 1917-1981
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| Dov Chevion | | | | | | 1917-1983
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| Frank August Engel, Jr. | | | | | | 1917
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| Robert Mano Fano | | | | | | 1917
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| Ralph Ernest Meagher | | | | | | 1917
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| Andrew Donald Booth | | | | | | 1918
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| Jay Wright Forrester | | | | | | 1918
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| John R. Pasta | | | | | | 1918-1981
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| John Presper Eckert, Jr. | | | | | | 1919-1995 | | co-inventor with John W. Mauchly of the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac.
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| Ray Harryhausen | | Los Angeles | CA | | | 6/29/1920 | |
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| Niels Ivar Bech | | | | | | 1920-1975
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| Robert William Bemer | | | | | | 1920
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| Frank Taylor Cary | | | | | | 1920
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| An Wang | | Shanghai | China | | | 1920-1990
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| Willis Howard Ware | | | | | | 1920
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| Heinz Zemanek | | | | | | 1920
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| Isaac Levin Auerbach | | | | | | 1921-1992
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| Robert Rivers Everett | | | | | | 1921
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| Tom Kilburn | | Dewsbury, Yorkshire | GB | | | 8/11/1921-1/17/2001
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| Gene Myron Amdahl | | | SD | | | 1922
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| Alan J. Perlis | | | | | | 1922-1990
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| Saul Rosen | | | | | | 1922-1991
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| J. Cliff Shaw | | | | | | 1922-1991
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| John Weber Carr | | | | | | 1923
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| Victor Mikhaylovich Glushkov | | | | | | 1923-1982
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| Jack St. Clair Kilby | | Jefferson City | MO | | | 1923
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| Herman Lukoff | | | | | | 1923-1979
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| Joseph Weizenbaum | | | | | | 1923
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| John Backus | | Philadelphia | PA | | | 1924
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| Julien Green | | | | | | 1924
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| Douglas C. Engelbart | | Portland | OR | | | 1924
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| Seymour Cray | | Chippewa Falls | WI | | | 1925-2:53AM 10/5/1996(Penrose Hospital, CO)
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| John R. Opel | | | | | | 1925
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Sergey Brin and Larry Page, are the co-founders of Google
Larry Ellison born 8/17/1944 in NYC
The Man Who (Really) Makes Google Tick
Georgina Russell born ~1977 works for veritas ran for gov of cal
ROOTS OF CDMA TECHNOLOGY
Code-division multiple access (CDMA) technology is now conquering the wireless world. CDMA is a form of "spread-spectrum" technology, which as its name suggests, involves spreading a radio signal out over a range of frequencies -- in contrast to the usual approach of transmitting on a single, well-defined frequency. The origins of CDMA go back to 1948, when Claude Shannon, a researcher at Bell Labs, published "A Mathematical Theory of Computation," which provides the mathematical underpinning for modern computing and communications technologies. When Shannon outlined this idea, it was entirely theoretical. The electronic hardware required to build such a system did not exist at the time. But by the 1980s, when analog mobile phones started to become popular, the limited spectrum available for wireless telephony began to become increasingly congested. Though few were aware of it, Shannon's scheme was becoming more practical by the day. [The Economist, 6/19]
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