Sherry:Q◇Q♧  Loren:7♡8◇  Board:10♤9♤2♤A♤3♤  Is this a split or does Sherry win and why?  Thanks Tammy
The table cards were A,K,K,8,3. All four suits were on the board. Player one had A,8. Player two had A,3.   Is this a split pot?
I was curious about the date in URL segments, is there any SEO point of benefit? For example the following URLs:  http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/18/netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows/ http://tips-for-new-bloggers.blogspot.in/2007/02/adding-favicon-icon-to-blogger-url.html  https://community.jivesoftware.com/blogs/jivespace/2013/05/15/eol-of-the-html5-ipad-web-app   In all the above URLs there is date segment. The information of those blogs can be fetched via blog stub like "netflix-will-launch-in-the-netherlands-later-this-year-as-its-international-expansion-slows" so why to use that date part? What kind of noun is 'picture'? I'm not sure of the right place to ask this, but I got confused trying to understand how the computer will interpret the sentence:     This is my picture.   In actual sense, the real owner of the picture should be the photographer not the person who was photographed... or am I getting something wrong? So, it seems the confusing thing about 'picture' is determining who the real owner of the picture is. So is there a special category for these kind of nouns or an official clarification somewhere?  Thanks I have a simple query:  select * from countries   with the following results:  country_name ------------ Albania Andorra Antigua .....   I would like to return the results in one row, so like this:  Albania, Andorra, Antigua, ...   Of course, I can write a PL/SQL function to do the job (I already did in Oracle 10g), but is there a nicer, preferably non-Oracle-specific solution (or may be a built-in function) for this task?  I would generally use it to avoid multiple rows in a sub-query, so if a person has more then one citizenship, I do not want her/him to be a duplicate in the list.  My question is based on the similar question on .  UPDATE: My function looks like this:  CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION APPEND_FIELD (sqlstr in varchar2, sep in varchar2 ) return varchar2 is ret varchar2(4000) := ''; TYPE cur_typ IS REF CURSOR; rec cur_typ; field varchar2(4000); begin      OPEN rec FOR sqlstr;      LOOP          FETCH rec INTO field;          EXIT WHEN rec%NOTFOUND;          ret := ret || field || sep;      END LOOP;      if length(ret) = 0 then           RETURN '';      else           RETURN substr(ret,1,length(ret)-length(sep));      end if; end; "Unanswered" question sort order on profile pages To help users keep track of (and hopefully get answers to) unanswered questions, it would be useful to have an "unanswered" sort order on a user's profile page.  It would order the list of questions with unanswered questions first.   This would be in addition to the "recent," "views," "newest," and "votes" sort orders. When will my device get the Android 4.2 update (Jelly Bean)? I'm looking for a true 360 degree camera, so that's both vertical and horizontal 360 degrees. I've seen some clip-ons for the iPhone, but am really not wanting to by an iPhone 4S for this.  What I would like to see: - decent resolution: at least 1920x1080. - and 30fps  I can't settle for an alternative that's not vertically 360 degrees (or at least much more than 180 degrees).  I've seen the ball camera, which isn't out yet, but would be really well suited for my case, given it does video as well. What is the black thing on the circuit What is the black thing on the below circuit?   Is it used to hide the IC (or other components) that is used on the circuit?   What material is it? "Shall" versus "will" for the first person When I studied English, I was taught that shall is used to express the future tense for the first person (singular, or plural), and will is used for the same purpose in the other cases.  When I look for shall on the NOAD, I read the following sentence, in a note about the usage of shall:     In practice, however, shall and will are today used more or less interchangeably in statements (although not in questions).   Does that mean shall and will are used with almost the same meaning?  Does I shall return have the same meaning of I will return? Do I have to enter the UK on my UK passport? I'm a British National (Overseas), which basically means that while I don't have the right of abode in the UK, I am permitted to visit the UK without a visa. However, my passport has expired, and while it's being renewed, the schedule is a bit tight.  At the same time, I'm an US Citizen, and since I'm only planning to visit the UK, I don't need a visa if I enter on my US passport.  I'm not familiar with UK immigration law, and given that this probably isn't too common a situation, the UK Border Agency website doesn't have an answer that I can can find, nor do they seem to have a contact form that fits my situation, so here's hoping someone knows—given that I'm a British National (Overseas), am I required to enter the UK on my UK passport, or can I just use my (valid) US passport? Coefficients change signs I have a dataset where there is a high degree of multicollinearity, with all variables correlating positively with each other and the dependent variable. However, on some of the models I run I get a couple of significant negative coefficients. Basically there are two coefficients that depending on what variables I include in the model, I can manipulate their signs.  My understanding is that if the variance-covariance matrix only contain positive values, then all coefficients should also be positive. Is this correct? I have the following pieces of hardware I would like to network mostly for file sharing (media primarily): 1 gaming laptop, 1 i7 (2.3Tb storage) desktop, 1 P4 desktop (500g storage), and 1 250gig PS3.  I am looking to setup a linux host (with a PS3 media server) with the i7 desktop but am concerned about leaving it on all the time. What stripped down, low energy usage distro can I couple with which windows &amp; PS3 friendly software?  Also, how should i reformat my i7 (in terms of partitions, RAID options, whatever)? It has 2 1Tb drives (likely adding a third), and 1 320 gig. A line is drawn through the point $A(1,2)$ to cut the line $2y=3x-5$ in $P$ and the line $x+y=12$ in $Q$. If $AQ=2AP$, find the coordinates of $P$ and $Q$.  I found the lengths of the lines $AQ$ and $AP$ in terms of $x$ and $y$ and used $AQ=2AP$ to get this equation $11x^2-40x-16=0$  Working: $AP=\sqrt{(x-1)^2+(\frac{3}{2}x-\frac{9}{2})^2}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}(13x^2-62x+85)}$  $AQ=\sqrt{(x-1)^2+(-x+10)^2}=\sqrt{2x^2-22x+101}$  $AQ=2AP\Rightarrow \sqrt{2x^2-22x+101}=2\sqrt{\frac{1}{4}(13x^2-62x+85)}$  $\Rightarrow 2x^2-22x+101=13x^2-62x+85\Rightarrow 11x^2-40x-16=0$  Using the quadratic formula I found $x=4,x=-\frac{4}{11}$  I then substituted these values into the two equations in the question to get the coordinates $(4,\frac{7}{2}),(-\frac{4}{11},-\frac{15}{11})$ or $(4,8),(-\frac{4}{11},\frac{136}{11})$  But the answers in the book are $(4,\frac{7}{2}),(7,5)$ or $(\frac{2}{5},-\frac{19}{10}),(\frac{11}{5},\frac{49}{5})$  I don't know where I went wrong in my method.  Edit: Found some errors in my method and calculation.  Using $x=4$ in $2y=3x-5$ gives $P(4,\frac{7}{2})$  Line with points $AP$ has equation $y-2=\frac{\frac{7}{2}-2}{3}(x-1)\Rightarrow y=\frac{1}{2}x+\frac{3}{2}$  $Q$ lies on the same line. Therefore, the intersection between $y=\frac{1}{2}x+\frac{3}{2}$ and $y+x=12$ is the point $Q$. Working: $\frac{1}{2}x+\frac{3}{2}=-x+12\Rightarrow x=7$ Therefore, $y=-7+12=5$. Point Q has coordinates $(7,5)$.  But $x=-\frac{4}{11}$ is not the other $x$ coordinate of $P$ according to the answers in the book. I have no idea where I went wrong at this point. How long can you store used cooking oil How long can you store used cooking oil then re-use it? I deep fried a turkey one year ago and have had it refrigerated since. Reset password in Drupal 6? Trig sum: $\tan ^21^\circ+\tan ^22^\circ+\cdots+\tan^2 89^\circ = \text{?}$ As the title suggests, I'm trying to find the sum $$\tan^21^\circ+\tan^2 2^\circ+\cdots+\tan^2 89^\circ$$ I'm looking for a solution that doesn't involve complex numbers, or any other advanced branch in maths. The solution can involve techniques such as induction, telecoping, etc, but preferably only ideas from precalculus, e.g. trig identities, polynomials, etc.  EDIT: I know that the sum is a rational number. I use pgfplots for most of my plots. Now I need to add a . Is this possible with pgfplots or any other package? How is hotness score calculated at larger sites? To start with, I am aware that hot questions from larger sites are somehow "penalized" and :     This is designed to ensure that a single site doesn't dominate the list, and that users see a good sampling of questions that are likely to interest them throughout the network...   I would like to understand how is hotness score really calculated at these sites. The reason why I ask is that per my observations, this seems to be quite different than is documented in the . Specifically, I would like to understand the difference in the impact of answer(s) score and aging factor.  Regarding impact of answers score, my observations of hot questions from smaller sites appear to be in agreement with known formula: (MIN(AnswerCount, 10) * QScore) / 5 + AnswerScore. For example, a question with low score (+1, +2) can get into hot list if it has got answer(s) with sufficiently high score.  At larger sites, this doesn't seem to be the case. Say, it looks like Stack Overflow questions just don't enter hot list until they reach certain score (+6,+7), no matter how many answers are there and how high is their score.  Does system simply totally ignore answers until question reaches certain score?  Another thing I noticed is that questions seem to age away from the hot list 2-3 times faster than ones from smaller sites (having comparable question and answers scores). Granted, this is harder to track and I am not yet sure if I figured that correctly. Do larger sites questions age away faster than those from smaller sites?    For those interested, here is a (partial) list of example questions I studied before asking this: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .  Although above examples are only from Stack Overflow, my question isn't (I only used it as an example of a large site in my studies). I would like to understand if hot questions from other larger sites are handled in a similar way. How do I find out which version and derivative of Ubuntu is right for my hardware in terms of minimal system requirements? Proving that closed (and open) balls are convex What are the prerequisites to studying general relativity? This question recently appeared :     Slashdot posts a fair number of physics stories. Many of us, myself included, don't have the background to understand them. So I'd like to ask the Slashdot math/physics community to construct a curriculum that gets me, an average college grad with two semesters of chemistry, one of calculus, and maybe 2-3 applied statistics courses, all the way to understanding the mathematics of general relativity. What would I need to learn, in what order, and what texts should I use? Before I get killed here, I know this isn't a weekend project, but it seems like it could be fun to do in my spare time for the next ... decade.   It seems like something that would be a good addition to this site: I think it's specific enough to be answerable but still generally useful. The textbook aspect is covered pretty well by , but beyond that: What college-level subjects in physics and math are prerequisites to studying general relativity in mathematical detail?