Cn
1 American-
circular note.
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credit note.
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Points Pi divide curve C into n pieces C1, C2 ,…, Cn, with lengths Δs1, Δs2 ,…, Δsn, respectively.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
When curves Ci satisfy the condition that the endpoint of Ci is the starting point of Ci + 1, we write their union as C1 + C2 + ⋯ + Cn.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
With seventeen of these queer quinqueremes, each with 300 rowers, who by their misunderstandings kept up a continual but useless row, the Consul, Cn.
From The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott ? Becket
It was the work of the censors Cn.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
Sampsiceramus," that "Hierosolymarius," that "Arabarches" into whose character he had seen so clearly when writing from Macedonia to Atticus—that "Cn.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
"I remember wanting to go and visit New York all the time," he told the BBC after finishing his overnight shift, not far from one of Toronto's most iconic buildings, the CN tower.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
Find insight on CN Rail, Hyundai Mobis and more in the latest Market Talks covering Auto and Transport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 27, 2026
Find insight on CN Rail, vessels in the Red Sea and more in the latest Market Talks covering Auto and Transport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Under one of the deals, CN also agreed not to oppose the Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern merger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Huggins had found organic matter in the comets; in subsequent years cyanogen, CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom, the molecular fragment that makes cyanides, was identified in the tails of comets.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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For example, Fermat’s last theorem, which deals with solutions of the form an + bn = cn, has puzzled experts for more than 350 years.
From Scientific American ● Jul. 28, 2023
In general, an arithmetic sequence is any sequence of the form an = cn + b.
From Textbooks ● Mar. 30, 2016
Or like this swatch of light verse: U cn gt a gd jb w hi pa!
From Time Magazine Archive
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Always there were rich food and champagne and the tasteless corn-bread that is found cn most French tables.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This confirms very aptly, I suppose, the point made by the man who until a little while ago was sitting here beside me cn this bench, and with whom I had my curious discussion.
From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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