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Newcomb may
refer to:
Newcomb (surname),
includes a list of
people with the name
Newcomb Bay
Newcomb, Victoria, a
residential suburb Newcomb Township,...
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Newcomb is a surname.
Notable people with the name include:
Anthony Newcomb (1941–2018),
American musicologist Bernard A.
Newcomb,
American businessperson...
- Sean
William Newcomb (born June 12, 1993) is an
American professional baseball pitcher for the
Boston Red Sox of
Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously...
- Benford's law, also
known as the
Newcomb–Benford law, the law of
anomalous numbers, or the first-digit law, is an
observation that in many real-life sets...
- In
philosophy and mathematics,
Newcomb's paradox, also
known as
Newcomb's problem, is a
thought experiment involving a game
between two players, one of...
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Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer,
applied mathematician, and
autodidactic polymath. He
served as Professor...
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known as the
creator of
Newcomb's paradox,
devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the
astronomer Simon Newcomb.
Newcomb started at the Lawrence...
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Newcomb ball (also
known simply as
Newcomb+, and
sometimes spelled Newcombe (ball)) is a ball game pla**** in a
gymnasium or
court using two
opposing teams...
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Newcomb Pottery, also
called Newcomb College Pottery, was a
brand of
American Arts &
Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940. The
company grew out of...
- H.
Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, or
Newcomb College, was the
coordinate women's
college of
Tulane University located in New Orleans, in the U.S. state...
