Calculating the addition of the number 2 to a variable, for example, can generate 27 instructions in machine code, many of them repetitive.

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Simply stated, I think when the dust settles on this dispute, the gurus of international investment banking will find that their jobs have been made permanently more difficult by the appearance of a new social investment category that has been declared taboo by some of their largest customers, and by the addition of a new and highly complicated variable to their already crowded due-diligence agendas.

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In addition, star colour is simulated for noticeably red, blue and yellow stars, along with the changing brightness of three variable stars Algol, Mira and Delta Cephei.

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