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Massive Update on Strings Theory in Wikipedia

Posted by Hemos on from the that-fount-of-all-scientific-information dept.

S3D writes "There is a massive update on Strings Theory in Wikipedia : AdS/CFT , Andrew Strominger , Cumrun Vafa, Ashoke Sen, Juan Maldacena, Mirror symmetry, String field theory, Holonomy, Heterotic string, Closed string , Open string, F-theory, Background independence, Higgs mechanism, Conifold, Tachyon_condensation, Einsteinian_manifold, Second superstring_revolution Now you can easyly tell Open string from Closed string at last."

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  1. Oh come on... by stienman · · Score: 4, Funny

    This could be solved with one entry:

    Closed String: Contiguously allocated memory ending with 0x00 ('\0', 0, 0b00000000, etc)

    Open String: Contigously allocated memory without a terminator (see also Closed String, Buffer Overflow)

    -Adam