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            "content_html": "<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"e2-text-table\">\n<tr>\n<td><b>Acronym or abbreviation<\/b><\/td>\n<td><b>Full meaning<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AliExpress<\/td>\n<td>Alibaba Express<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Amtrak<\/td>\n<td>American track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Gerrymandering<\/td>\n<td>Gerry salamandering<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Grade A Under A<\/td>\n<td>Grade A. Underachiever<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HBO<\/td>\n<td>Home Box Office<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>HQ<\/td>\n<td>Hype Quiz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Instagram<\/td>\n<td>Instant telegram<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pac-Man<\/td>\n<td>Program and control Man<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>PCalc<\/td>\n<td>Programmer’s calculator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Pixelmator<\/td>\n<td>Pixel + mater (to mate)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Qualcomm<\/td>\n<td>Quality communications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Skype<\/td>\n<td>Sky peer-to-peer → Skyper → Skype<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Tanzania<\/td>\n<td>Tanganyika & Zanzibar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Uniqlo<\/td>\n<td>Unique clothing<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Velcro<\/td>\n<td>Velours crochet<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Verizon<\/td>\n<td>Veritas horizon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Walmart<\/td>\n<td>Walton-mart<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Yandex<\/td>\n<td>Yet another indexer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The more you know.<\/p>\n",
            "summary": "AliExpress, gerrymandering, HBO, Pac-Man, and so on",
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            "title": "A better abbreviation for sine & cosine",
            "content_html": "<p>For some weird reason the abbreviation for sine is <i>sin<\/i> and <i>cos<\/i> for cosine. This is madness compared to the beautiful and logical abbreviation for tangent and cotangent: <i>tg<\/i> and <i>ctg<\/i> respectively.<\/p>\n<p>My proposal:<\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" class=\"e2-text-table\">\n<tr>\n<td>sine<\/td>\n<td>si<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>cosine<\/td>\n<td>csi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>tangent<\/td>\n<td>tg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>cotangent<\/td>\n<td>ctg<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Quite obviously, I submitted them to my local ISO representative for review.<\/p>\n",
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