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The comic book in PDF format is great digital idea. Occasionally I want to read a comic without having to view it on an electronic device. My question is this: In the UK are there printers that specalise in (single) comic book printing? Or even an online service? And yes I realise could just take a PDF to KALLKWIK and get it printed into a tangible comic book (but I'd have to be very specific about format. binding & paper).

There is a string of three items: apples, pears, cherries. Looping over each item and checking against one another we compare:

apples and apples

pears and apples

cherries and apples

pears and apples

pears and pears

pears and cherries

cherries and apples

cherries and pears

cherries and cherries

(That's 9 comparisons)

It's easy to ignore items that are the same (apples and apples) cutting it down to 6. But there are still items being compared that give the same value (apples and pears is the same gives the same results as pears and apples) In javascript is there an easy way to detect and ignore matrix symmetry (if that is the correct term), thus cutting down on calculation time? So that the only items that need to be compared are:

Apples and pears

Apples and cherries

Pears and cherries

Is there a way to find (not delete) non-identical duplicates in a play list (text file)?

ie:

GunsnRoses - Sweet Child of Mine

Guns and Roses - Sweet Child of Mine

4 Non Blondes - What's Up

4 Non Blondes - What's Up?

Aerosmith - Cryin

Aerosmith - Cryin'

So it'll find things regardless of case, and punctuation and white space. Or for the more technically minded, load the playlist into a text editor and do a fuzzy search on it. I know there are ways to do that with PHP and SQL but I don't have access to those things. Thank you

What is this the phrase "Think in Russian" actually in Russian?

Question: Every hour a person is compelled to tell someone a rumour. If the rumour starts off with just one person but tells two people, and those two people tell two other people. How long before 7,000,000,000 people have heard the rumour?

85 people bring 10 presents each to a party. All 850 of the presents are then re-distributed around in a random way and then each person is given back 10 presents (providing it is NOT one the ones that they originally brought). What are the chances that person A and person B swap presents? (ie one of person A's presents ends up with person B and one of person B's presents ends up with person A)

This is not homework. I need to work out minimum bounding boxes (area) for images at a known area at certain aspect ratios (x, y):

(f * x) * (f * y) = area

What is f?

Without signing up for a Gmail account or waiting till it goes away how do I remove or replace the new Google background image to the default white one?

Who painted the cover of the book "Notes of a Nude Model" by Harriet Sohmers Zwerling.

link to image here: http://www.amazon.com/Notes-Nude-Model-Other-Piece...