I've seen a question here about the origin of  but no explanation of why they're plural. If coins were black- and white-sided I doubt we'd be asked to call 'blacks or whites' on a coin flip. Is there a known reason for this? Or some interesting speculation? (-:
Head or tail sound fine to my ESL ears.  What's the reasoning behind the plural usage?  I looked it up on etymonline but didn't find anything interesting.
Wasted screen space due to multiple horizontal bars at the top when an application is open in GNOME desktop Just moved from Unity to GNOME with the update to Ubuntu 17.10. There is a HUGE amount of wasted space at the top of the screen, when an application is open.  Evolution and Firefox both have four "bars" with 90% of each empty. Unity, to its credit was able to blend / mix these horizontal bars so there was only one / two.      Four is way too much. If this is GNOME I may carry on with Unity for the next six months.  Can anybody suggest a tweak/change/fix for this? SQL injection that gets around mysql_real_escape_string() Break a long command to multiple lines I got a shell script and inside I got the command as below #!/bin/sh sh ../jboss/bin/standalone.sh --server-config=standalone-full.xml -Djboss.node.name=node1 -b 0.0.0.0 -bmanagement 0.0.0.0  How can I break the line to multiple lines for better understanding and management #!/bin/sh sh ../jboss/bin/standalone.sh    --server-config=standalone-full.xml   -Djboss.node.name=node1   -b 0.0.0.0   -bmanagement 0.0.0.0  Tried with backslash at the end of each line and it doesnt work. I want to construct a complex power series with the radius of convergence $R=1$ that diverges in:  1) $k$ points on the circle $\{|z|=1\}$.  2) countable number of points on the circle  I have already crafted series that converges on the whole circle and diverges on the whole circle.  Can anybody help with the problem?  Update: I have googled a series $\sum{\frac{z^{kn}}{kn}}$ that is an answer for 1). Though I still need help for the countable case. Disclaimer Yes, I am fully aware that what I am asking about is totally stupid and that anyone who would wish to try such a thing in production code should be fired and/or shot.  I'm mainly looking to see if can be done. Now that that's out of the way, is there any way to access private class members in C++ from outside the class?  For example, is there any way to do this with pointer offsets? (Naive and otherwise non-production-ready techniques welcome) Update As noted in the comments, I asked this question because I wanted to write a blog post on over-encapsulation (and how it affects TDD).  I wanted to see if there was a way to say &quot;using private variables isn't a 100% reliable way to enforce encapsulation, even in C++.&quot;  At the end, I decided to focus more on how to solve the problem rather than why it's a problem, so I didn't feature some of the stuff brought up here as prominently as I had planned, but I still left a link. At any rate, if anyone's interested in how it came out, here it is:   (I suggest reading it before you decide that I'm crazy). How can I do a line break (line continuation)? Use of comma separating two adjectives If I had the phrase       two blond haired, blue eyed people    would the comma be out of place?    should I hyphenate "blond haired" and "blue eyed"? Proof of continuity $f(x+y) = f(x) + f(y)$ How to fill down in Numbers without dragging? Possible Duplicate:          As a English non-native speaker it is difficult for me to understand when I must use present perfect or past simple because in my official language there isn't the present perfect tense. I know that present perfect is related to something that happened in the past but its result is important now. But for instance:        The message has been sent.   The message was sent.      Please help me point me out any examples/contexts where I should use 1. instead of 2. Compiling the following code and got the error of type illegal.  int main() {     // Compilation error - switch expression of type illegal     switch(std::string("raj"))     {     case"sda":     } }   You cannot use string in either switch or case. Why? Is there any solution that works nicely to support logic similar to switch on strings? App keeps crashing & rendering error since update to 1.0.68 PHP get number of week for month Why can't I say “She died from drinking 18 cans of Coca-Cola”? Instead, the correct sentence would be “She died of drinking 18 cans of Coca-Cola”. Why does that happen? Can I use set instead of List to resolve the duplicate id issue If you take a look into this issue     I have provide an answer of using set&lt;Sobject&gt; instead using list&lt;Sobject&gt;  i.e.  if( !contacts.values().isEmpty() ){   set&lt;Contact&gt; setContacts = new set&lt;Contact&gt;();   for( Contact objCon : contacts.values() ){     if(!setContacts.contains(objCon)){         setContacts.add( objCon );     }   }  update new list&lt;Contact&gt;(setContacts); }   even if(!setContacts.contains(objCon)) is not needed  if( !contacts.values().isEmpty() ){   set&lt;Contact&gt; setContacts = new set&lt;Contact&gt;();   for( Contact objCon : contacts.values() ){         setContacts.add( objCon );   }  update new list&lt;Contact&gt;(setContacts); }   So is there any condition/use case where this answer might fail? What does it do exactly if I click in the window of cmd? Suppose I run cmd.exe and ping localhost. After that I ping localhost again but I click into the window and the ping stops until I press enter.  What happens exactly when I click into the window? Does it suspend the process or something else? I attached a screenshot to clarify this issue.  Note: I do not actually click but drag using the mouse which creates a white box in the window as you can see on the screenshot.  Edit: further clarification: What I really wish to know is whether dragging the window halts the cmd process or not?  Edit: even more clarification: I know that I'm using Quick Edit and pressing enter copies the contents I selected. What I do not know is what happens in the background. Is normal extension of normal extension always normal? To show that ${x_n}$ is convergent where $|x_{n+1} - x_n|< \frac{1}{n^2}$ Let ${x_n}$ be a sequence in $R$ such that $|x_{n+1} - x_n|&lt; \frac{1}{n^2}$ for all $n \in N$.  Show that the sequence is convergent.  If it were $|x_{n+1} - x_n|= \frac{1}{n^2}$, could take help of the fact $\sum \frac{1}{n^2}$ is convergent and of triangular inequality.  But what to do here? Please help. Thanks in advance. Hide iPhone HTML5 video play button Maximum value of $\sin A+\sin B+\sin C$? What is the maximum value of $\sin A+\sin B+\sin C$ in a triangle $ABC$. My book says its $3\sqrt3/2$ but I have no idea how to prove it.   I can see that if $A=B=C=\frac\pi3$ then I get $\sin A+\sin B+\sin C=\frac{3\sqrt3}2$. And also  maximum is attained for $a=b=c$. But this does not give me any idea for the proof.  Can anyone help?