Various anti-spam programs use several techniques to spot and kill junk mail, but IBM believes the Chung-Kwei algorithm to be the only anti-spam tool that uses pattern discovery in this way.

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One can argue that multiple pages can weaken your position, but this is not how things work in Facebook: users jump from one page to another without any specific discovery pattern in mind (if you look for a scientific word to describe this behavior and impress your colleagues, try serendipity).

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But the discovery that the area surrounding the tachocline varies its rotation in a regular pattern could be a clue to solving the mystery.

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From its discovery in 1973 until 1989, a particular well in the field followed the usual pattern of gradually declining production.

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