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It don't matter how many noughts you put on [a check].

Some are high-tech wizards that are conjuring business empires out of noughts and ones.

I had a similar repulsion to using laptops in East Village cafes during the early noughts.

Gx Nice to see that Gordon Ramsay has taken to playing noughts and crosses with his meat lids.

It flew more or less straight from Mr Coates's pen to Congress and the presidential primary, where Ms Williamson added noughts to it.

In a truly simple game, like noughts and crosses, every possible outcome, all the way to the end of a game, can be calculated.

So is the strategy, rediscovered thousands of times every year by schoolchildren bored with learning mathematical algorithms, for playing a perfect game of noughts and crosses.

She emerged on New York's art scene in the early noughts when cultural discourse on postcolonial subjectivity was reaching its boiling point in the academic and art worlds.

This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Merlin Mann, the lifestyle "guru" who invented the concept of inbox zero in the early noughts, claims people took his idea far too literally.

He had hoped to launch a #Merky TV arm to commission an adaptation of his favorite book, Malorie Blackman's YA novel "Noughts & Crosses," but the BBC beat him to the rights.

While the film's most obvious influence is Willy Wonka, Adams also cites the Hungarian film Werckmeister Harmonies as an inspiration, as well as the long, still shots of Peter Greenway's A Zed & Two Noughts.

"Okay, the boss' back is turned, time to take things up a notch..." A video which appears to originate from The Content Bible shows two construction workers playing noughts and crosses with huge, industrial machinery.

Here are a few known limitations as of today: Kodi began life as XBMC (Xbox Media Center), or XBMP (Xbox Media Player) if you want to track back to the original incarnation that ran on hacked first-generation Xbox consoles — a capable PC with high-end graphics that Microsoft sold at a loss in order to gain an industry foothold back in the early noughts.

Noughts + Crosses is a British drama television series based on the Noughts & Crosses novel series by Malorie Blackman. The series is set in an alternate history where black "Cross" people rule over white "Noughts". The first episode aired on BBC One on 5 March 2020, and the remaining episodes premiered on BBC iPlayer on the same day.

On 5 November 2019 BBC News included Noughts & Crosses on its list of the 100 most influential novels. The Guardian ranked Noughts & Crosses #88 in its list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century.

Then in 2020 she played housekeeper Meggie McGregor in Noughts + Crosses.

"Time Lapse" comes from A Zed & Two Noughts while "Chasing Sheep..." is from The Draughtsman's Contract.

He is the Executive Producer of the BBC television series of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses.

The US renaming of "noughts and crosses" as "tic-tac-toe" occurred in the 20th century.Oxford English Dictionary entries for "Noughts and Crosses", "Tick-Tack" and "Tick-Tack-Toe", dictionary.oed.com In 1952, OXO (or Noughts and Crosses), developed by British computer scientist Sandy Douglas for the EDSAC computer at the University of Cambridge, became one of the first known video games. The computer player could play perfect games of tic-tac-toe against a human opponent.

In 2020, Dingwall appeared in the BBC series Noughts + Crosses as the Nought militia leader, Jack Dorn.

There are five books in the series: Noughts and Crosses, Knife Edge, Checkmate, Double Cross, and Crossfire.

Alexander Shafto "Sandy" Douglas CBE (21 May 1921 – 29 April 2010) was a British professor of computer science, credited with creating the first graphical computer game OXO, a Noughts and Crosses computer game in 1952 on the EDSAC computer at University of Cambridge.A.S.Douglas' 1952 Noughts and Crosses game, Pong Story.

Gołębiowski's scoring diagram. Gołębiowski says that players draw a diagram in the form of a noughts and crosses layout. The team scoring the most tricks erases a line or, if they take the first four, two lines. It is not clear whether the 'lines' are drawn apart from the noughts and crosses diagram or within it.

Since any two of these positions are part of a combinatorial line, the third element of that line must be occupied by the opposite symbol (since we are assuming that no combinatorial line has all three elements filled with the same symbol). In other words, for each choice of abcdef (which can be thought of as an element of the six-dimensional hypercube W36), there are six (overlapping) possibilities: # abcdef11 and abcdef12 are noughts; abcdef13 is a cross. # abcdef11 and abcdef22 are noughts; abcdef33 is a cross. # abcdef12 and abcdef22 are noughts; abcdef32 is a cross.

The game was basically the same as the American Tic Tac Dough with a similar set. Two contestants played the game with the champion playing cross ("X"), and the challenger playing noughts ("O"). They faced a noughts & crosses (tic-tac-toe) game board of nine subjects. Player took turns (starting with the champion) picking categories and answering questions in those categories.

The first book, Noughts & Crosses, was retitled Black & White and was adapted and directed for the Royal Shakespeare CompanyBlackman, Malorie & Dominic Cooke. Noughts and Crosses (Royal Shakespeare Company) Nick Hern Books, London, 2007. by former RSC Associate Dominic Cooke, with Richard Madden and Ony Uhiara in the lead roles of Callum and Sephy. The play garnered positive reviews, with Blackman herself saying that she "knew it was in really safe hands".

Her books have been translated into over 15 languages including Spanish, Welsh, German, Japanese, Chinese and French. Blackman's award-winning Noughts & Crosses series, exploring love, racism and violence, is set in a fictional dystopia. Explaining her choice of title, in a 2007 interview for the BBC's Blast website, Blackman said that noughts and crosses is "one of those games that nobody ever plays after childhood, because nobody ever wins".

In Canadian English the symbols and are both called the pound sign, but the # is also known as the 'number sign' and as the 'noughts-and-crosses board'.

It was issued on compact disc first in 1989 by Ter Records, which had released A Zed & Two Noughts. Jay Records then reissued the album on CD on 15 June 1999.

The Times interviewer Amanda Craig speculated about the delay for the Noughts & Crosses series to be published in the United States: "though there was considerable interest, 9/11 killed off the possibility of publishing any book describing what might drive someone to become a terrorist". Noughts and Crosses is now available in the US published under the title Black & White (Simon & Schuster Publishers, 2005). Noughts & Crosses was No. 61 on the Big Read list, a 2003 BBC survey to find "The Nation's Best-Loved Book", with more votes than A Tale of Two Cities, several Terry Pratchett novels and Lord of the Flies. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.

Writing under his birth name, P. R. Russ, Patrick O'Brian published three stories in the Oxford Annual for Boys which involve Sullivan and Ross. They are "Noughts and Crosses" (1936), "Two's Company" (1937) and "No Pirates Nowadays" (1940). Although he had appeared in print previously, O'Brian had not created a relationship between men of an equal footing before "Noughts and Crosses," as he does with Sullivan and Ross. His biographer Dean King describes this as a "watershed" event.

Kerrie-Anne's permanent departure from the band would be announced in September 2011, was then replaced by Alix Farquhar. On 23 September 2011 Noughts and Exes announced their signing to US Spectra Records.

Plans are now back on track for construction of a monorail, which would run throughout the island state. Bahrain's Cabinet initially approved the monorail plan in the noughts, though the Global Financial Crisis has delayed the project.

They used to play together when Jasmine, Sephy's mother, employed Meggie McGregor, Callum's mother, as a nanny. However, Jasmine fired Meggie for being unable to provide an alibi for her when Kamal confronts Jasmine about his suspicions of her infidelity: that is only strongly suggested for now but is made explicit later. Since then, Sephy and Callum's friendship has been secret, as such interracial friendships are frowned upon by society. Callum is one of the first few noughts to start at Heathcroft, a high school for Crosses that now accepts the best-performing noughts.

Noughts and Exes were an indie folk rock band that was active in Hong Kong during 2007-2015. The band consists of Joshua Wong (vocals, guitars), Gideon So (piano, keyboards, glockenspiel, melodica, vocals), Alex Bedwell (drums, vocals, percussion), Winnie Lau (bass, violin), and Alix Farquhar (vocals, percussion, glockenspiel). After a successful run with the band 'Whence He Came', singer Joshua Wong recruited a group of musicians to accompany him during live performances of his new solo project Noughts and Exes. This would eventually become the first incarnation of the band.

Noughts & Crosses is a series of young adult novels by British author Malorie Blackman, including five novels and three novellas. The series is speculative fiction describing an alternative history in which native African people had colonised the European people, rather than the other way around, with Africans having made Europeans their slaves. The series takes place in an alternative 21st-century Britain. At the time of the series, slavery had been abolished for some time, but segregation, similar to the Jim Crow Laws, continues to operate to keep the crosses (dark-skinned people) in control of the noughts (lighter-skinned people).

A special "joker card" could be played once in each game by either contestant, reversing each square on the board so that all crosses became noughts and vice versa. A bonus was awarded for a full board of noughts or crosses, after which each square on the board would be randomised. Question styles generally included puzzles, "true or false," or "identify the picture". The last round of the show before the winner was declared was a special "wrong answer round" in which aim was for the contestants to give as many incorrect answers as they could within 60 seconds.

Lundin wrote games in Fortran and Assembler and Goran in COBOL to demonstrate the API for programmers. To model IBM's new light pen, programmers contributed a simple tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses), possibly the only practical use of the subsequently discontinued light pen.

Round two was a game of noughts and crosses. All three contestants had a 3-by-3 grid of squares, initially empty. The squares were labelled with different aspects of a country. Frangén again randomly selected one country from each of the four continents.

Thoolen played his first leading role in 1980 in the filmThe Mark of the Beast by Pieter Verhoeff. Besides playing in Dutch films, Thoolen also participated in films by the British film director Peter Greenaway, A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) and Prospero's Books (1991).

Compare chess with > noughts and crosses. Or is there always winning and losing, or competition > between players? Think of patience. In ball games there is winning and > losing; but when a child throws his ball at the wall and catches it again, > this feature has disappeared.

Bonnie Mbuli (born 3 March 1979) is a South African actress, businesswoman, and television personality. She was a presenter in one of the most watched television shows in South Africa, Afternoon Express on SABC 3. In 2020, she played Jasmine Hadley in the BBC drama series Noughts and Crosses.

This was the last of the collaborations between director Peter Greenaway and composer Michael Nyman. Most of the film's music cues, (excepting Ariel's songs and the Masque) are from an earlier concert, La Traversée de Paris and the score from A Zed & Two Noughts. The soundtrack album is Nyman's sixteenth release.

I See Ice is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Kay Walsh and Betty Stockfeld. The film depicts the adventures of a photographer working for a London newspaper. It features the songs "In My Little Snapshot Album", "Noughts And Crosses" and "Mother What'll I Do Now".

Each edition featured two contestants; one a school student and the other a teacher. Both were tested on general knowledge questions and logic puzzles. Correct answers won the contestant moves on a giant Noughts and Crosses board made from rotating cubes. Questions awarded one, two or three moves of the board, based upon their difficulty.

In August 2016, the BBC announced that Noughts & Crosses would be dramatised for television. Being Human creator Toby Whithouse was involved in overseeing the scripts. Jay Z's company Roc Nation and Participant Media were executive producers for the series. In November 2018, it was announced Masali Baduza and Jack Rowan were cast as Sephy Hadley and Callum McGregor respectively.

In late October 2016 he made his debut as a recurring character in the Doctor Who spin-off Class. In 2017, he also had a minor role in an episode of the long- running BBC detective programme Death in Paradise, playing a corrupt mayor. In 2020, he played a barrister in the BBC drama Noughts and Crosses.

But now consider the position 11333233, which must be filled with either a cross or a nought. If it is filled with a cross, then the combinatorial line 11xxx2xx is filled entirely with crosses, contradicting our hypothesis. If instead it is filled with a nought, then the combinatorial line 11xxx233 is filled entirely with noughts, again contradicting our hypothesis.

At the start of the 1950s another American, Claude Shannon, wrote basic guidelines on programming a chess-playing computer. Although OXO was created in England by the year 1952, the findings and inventions of the Americans described helped make it possible.Cohen, D. S. 'OXO Aka Noughts and Crosses - The First Video Game"," "About.com"n.d. Web. October 15, 2013.

Sephy is overjoyed to find that Callum is in her class after helping him pass the entrance examination. However, most of her classmates do not accept her association with a nought. The two develop a more intimate connection, and Sephy does not care about the opposition and even sits at a table with noughts. That angers Callum, but the two make up.

The novella changes the ending of Noughts and Crosses and was published for World Book Day 2012. Callum decides to let Sephy flee from the other kidnappers while they are out. While he shows her the way back to town, Sephy badly injures her foot. He talks her into spending the night with her in an abandoned shack for her to recover.

Malorie Blackman (born 8 February 1962) is a British writer who held the position of Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. She primarily writes literature and television drama for children and young adults. She has used science fiction to explore social and ethical issues. Her critically and popularly acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series uses the setting of a fictional dystopia to explore racism.

To be dismissed for nought in both innings of the same two-innings match is to be dismissed for a pair, because the two noughts together are thought to resemble a pair of spectacles; the longer form is occasionally used. To be dismissed first ball in both innings (i.e., two golden ducks) is to suffer the indignity of making a king pair.

The show is based on noughts and crosses. Inside each box is a celebrity. The host asks a celebrity a question, and if the contestant can correctly predict whether the celebrity got that question correct or wrong, then they'll win that square and a money value. If the contestant's prediction is wrong, the opposing contestant wins the square and no money is won.

The novella gives an insight into the events of Knife Edge. Written for World Book Day 2003, it has been republished in a new edition of Noughts & Crosses. An Eye For an Eye describes one evening while Sephy is pregnant with Callie Rose when her sister, Minerva, visits her. Minerva offers to patch up things with Jasmine, but Sephy tries to get Minerva to leave.

OXO is a video game developed by A S Douglas in 1952 which simulates a game of noughts and crosses. It was one of the first games developed in the early history of video games. Douglas programmed the game as part of a thesis on human-computer interaction at the University of Cambridge. It was written on the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC).

The second race, the noughts (lighter-skinned people who we would refer to as "white") are at the poorer end of society usually doing manual labour or being servants to Crosses, with poor schools – if any at all. Sephy (full name Persephone) Hadley is a Cross. She is the daughter of a wealthy senior politician, Kamal Hadley, who later takes office as Prime Minister. Callum McGregor is a nought.

"Bomb the Dread Noughts!" Air Classics, 2006. The belief that the aircraft carrier was junior to the battleship began to evaporate when the Imperial Japanese Navy, in a surprise attack, nearly destroyed United States Pacific Fleet while it was at anchor at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The captain of the , Ernst Lindemann, had almost dodged the Royal Navy until he was undone by British reconnaissance aircraft.

Zoo Caprices was written for the virtuosity of Alexander Balanescu, who premiered the work in Paris on 8 April 1986. The score is a reduction of the score for A Zed & Two Noughts, but allows for Balanescu's ability to create multiple harmonies on a single instrument through multiple stops. The order is significantly altered from the original album, and "Vermeer's Wife" and "Prawn Watching" are combined into a single section.

The team that erases their lines first, records "as many sticks" for their opponents as they have left. If the Druzbart is captured by the Dola, the capturing team awards 'spectacles' (okulary) to the side that lost the Druzbart; if the Druzbart is lost to one's partner, 'scissors' (nożyczki) are awarded. These may be, in effect, the 'noughts' and 'crosses' in the diagram. Various penalty symbols are awarded for other feats.

A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny, who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until Vierny's death. Greenaway referred to Vierny as his "most important collaborator". The film is a rumination on life, love, bad sex, doubling, man's mistreatment of animals, artifice v.

In 2012, the band launched a campaign on crowdfunding web site Kickstarter to raise funds to make a new record. Their goal was to raise $10,000 and, not only did they achieve their goal in May 2012, they surpassed it. On the closing date of their campaign, 5 May 2012, Noughts and Exes had raised $12,278. In doing so, they became the first band from Hong Kong to ever successfully complete a Kickstarter campaign.

The other films from which the music is derived are A Zed & Two Noughts (where it was originally not performed by the Michael Nyman Band), Drowning By Numbers, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Making a Splash, and Prospero's Books. Nyman created a similar album in 2005 with The Composer's Cut Series Vol. II: Nyman/Greenaway Revisited. Fan reaction has generally been that The Essential Michael Nyman Band is the superior album.

Criss Cross Quiz was a quiz programme that combined the game noughts and crosses with general knowledge questions and aired on the ITV network from 1957 to 1967. It was produced by Granada Television. The programme was presented by Jeremy Hawk from 1957 to 1962 and Barbara Kelly from 1963 to 1967. The series was based on an American show entitled Tic Tac Dough which ran from 1956 to 1959 and was revived in 1978.

Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os, is a paper-and-pencil game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid. The player who succeeds in placing three of their marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row is the winner. It is a solved game with a forced draw assuming best play from both players.

In 2007 Cooke wrote the stage adaptation of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses, which he directed and produced at the RSC. He wrote an adaptation of Arabian Nights for the Young Vic in 1998 and directed a revised version for the RSC in 2009. With scriptwriter Ben Power, Cooke co-wrote the scripts for Shakespeare's Henry VI Parts 1 and 2 for BBC TV's The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses (May 2016).

Malorie Blackman Interview: Double Cross on Scottish Book Trust It toured the UK from February to April 2008. A second theatre adaptation of the first book titled Noughts and Crosses premiered at Derby Theatre in February 2019, and toured the UK. This stage version is adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz and directed by Esther Richardson for Pilot Theatre. The first book was also the subject of the last edition in February 2012 of BBC Radio 4's "Saturday Drama".

Indeed, Gardner specifically constructed it as a game with a small game tree, in order to demonstrate how it could be played by a heuristic AI implemented by a mechanical computer based on Donald Michie's Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine. A variant of this game is octopawn, which is played on a 4×4 board with 4 pawns on each side. In octopawn, if both players play well, the second player to move will always lose.

Director Peter Greenaway has cited the film as an influence on his work, based on its illustration of how to "structure a film without necessarily using narrative". Greenaway's 1973 short film H Is for House presents long lists of words beginning with the letter h, and his later feature films The Draughtsman's Contract and A Zed & Two Noughts feature children reciting abecedaries.Pascoe 1997. Su Friedrich adapted the structure of Zorns Lemma for her 1990 film Sink or Swim.

Jack Rowan (born February 18, 1997) is a British actor, known for his roles as Bonnie in Peaky Blinders and Sam in Born to Kill. He has also had small roles in numerous television dramas including Casualty, Silent Witness, and ITV's Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands. In 2020, he played Callum McGregor in the BBC drama series Noughts and Crosses. Before becoming an actor, Rowan was an amateur boxer from age 12, winning 18 of 27 fights.

Albion appears to be a self-governing colony with its own Prime Minister and executive leadership, an exclusively Cross police force and a military only just opened up to a small number of Nought high-achievers. However, it is still accountable to the Aprican Empire based on the continent. As of 1950, segregation is rigidly enforced in the colony between those of wealthy African descent (known as Crosses or Daggers) and the poorer native white Europeans (known as Noughts or Blankers).

Olumide played a minor role in a BAFTA Scotland New Talent winning project called Trouble Sleeping. In 2017 she had a small role as Rosie in After Louise Olumide appeared in a short, One Sweet Oblivios Antidote', with Lenny Henry'. She also had minor parts in Star Wars Rogue One, The Last Jedi and Absolutely Fabulous. In 2019 she landed a role in Noughts and Crosses alongside rapper Stormzy, produced by Shawn Corey Carter also known as Jay Z at Roc Nation USA.

"There," he reckoned, "if you are a recognised player, half a dozen successive noughts will not exclude you from a team." Read remained a regular selection for England until 1893, being awarded that year's Oval Test (against South Africa) as a benefit. Although his batting at this level was not spectacular – he passed fifty only twice in his 29 Test innings – his fielding at third man was excellent. He also appeared for the Players against the Gentlemen on 17 occasions.

A continuous game is a mathematical concept, used in game theory, that generalizes the idea of an ordinary game like tic-tac-toe (noughts and crosses) or checkers (draughts). In other words, it extends the notion of a discrete game, where the players choose from a finite set of pure strategies. The continuous game concepts allows games to include more general sets of pure strategies, which may be uncountably infinite. In general, a game with uncountably infinite strategy sets will not necessarily have a Nash equilibrium solution.

In 1960, he developed the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine (MENACE), one of the first programs capable of learning to play a perfect game of Tic-Tac-Toe. Since computers were not readily available at this time, Michie implemented his program with about 304 matchboxes, each representing a unique board state. Each matchbox was filled with coloured beads, each representing a different move in that board state. The quantity of a colour indicated the "certainty" that playing the corresponding move would lead to a win.

She reads the part of Sephy on the audio book versions of Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series. In January 2010, Sosanya appeared as Mae Pollock in Tennessee Williams' play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at the Novello Theatre, London. She appeared as Colly Trent in series 2 of the BBC television drama Five Days. She appeared in the BBC Four television series Twenty Twelve, a comedy about the London 2012 Olympic build up, and the BBC One drama series Silk and Hustle.

Callum's guard, Jack, delivers a letter, written by Callum before he died, saying that he never loved her and could not believe that she was stupid enough to fall for him. Meggie tries to make Sephy believe that Callum was forced to write the letter by the rest of the gang, but the letter is so hurtful that Sephy believes it and develops postnatal depression. She meets Jaxon, a hot-tempered man with a band, the Midges. He offers Sephy a singing part, but the noughts are prejudiced against her because she is a Cross.

After leaving successful band Whence He Came, singer Joshua Wong began working on a new solo venture called Noughts and Exes. Wong began recording new material, Nic Tse Jo Yum on electric guitar and Jennifer Skidmore on cello and piano. On 22 April 2008 Act One, Scene One was released. Appearing on Act One, Scene One are; Marcy Masashi (Buddhistson, Oceanlane) (drums) Martijn Groeneveld (bass), Jennifer Skidmore (cello, piano, vocals), Nic Tse Jo Yum (unwed sailor, TSTGU, thelovesong) (electric guitar), and Joshua Wong (programming, keyboards, bass, guitars, effects, vocals).

Ah Ding (drums), Benson Looi (bass), and Gideon So (keyboards) joined Jennifer Skidmore, Nicholas Tse, and Joshua Wong performed live for Act One, Scene One. After the album's release, the band went on hiatus. Eventually, Joshua Wong and Gideon So got together and began working on new material and the next incarnation of Noughts and Exes performed at The Underground 83 on 8 August 2009. This was the first performance for the band with Alex Bedwell (drums, vocals, percussion), Kerrie-Anne Butler (vocals, glockenspiel, percussion), and Marianne Bunton (cello).

Masali Baduza (born 1996) is a South African actress known for playing Sephy Hadley in the 2020 BBC drama Noughts + Crosses. Baduza grew up in East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, and trained at the New York Film Academy at the Los Angeles campus. Since graduating in 2016 she has worked mostly in theatre, as well as taking a role in South African crime thriller Trackers, which was M-Net's top performing show for 2019. In 2019 she was listed by the Royal Television Society as a rising star, and 'one to watch' in 2020.

And Do They Do/Zoo Caprices is the eighth album released by Michael Nyman and the fifth featuring the Michael Nyman Band. And Do They Do is a modern dance work commission by Siobhan Davies and The London Contemporary Dance Theatre, which premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre on 25 November 1986. Zoo Caprices is a multi-stop violin solo for Alexander Balanescu based on the score for Peter Greenaway's film, A Zed & Two Noughts. The album was issued on LP in 1986 by Ter Records under license from Jay Records.

She may have been best known for her frequent appearances as a panelist on the television show What's My Line? (1951–63), transmitted by the BBC on Sunday evenings, which was very popular, although, as Kelly reflected in later years, it had no competition: "it was the only programme on the air!" From 1964 to 1967, she introduced Criss Cross Quiz, a general knowledge game based on noughts and crosses. Kelly was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1978 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews at the Tower Hotel, London.

Michie completed his essay on MENACE in 1963, "Experiments on the mechanization of game-learning", as well as his essay on the BOXES Algorithm, written with R. A. Chambers and by then had built up an AI research unit in Hope Park Square, Edinburgh, Scotland. MENACE "learned" by playing increasing matches of Noughts and Crosses. Each time, it would eliminate a losing strategy by the human player confiscating the beads that corresponded to each move. It reinforced winning strategies by making the moves more likely, by supplying extra beads.

Helen Victoria Baxendale (born 7 June 1970) is an English actress of stage and television, known for her roles as Rachel in the British comedy-drama Cold Feet (1997–2003), and Emily in the American sitcom Friends (1997–1998). Baxendale's early stage credits include The Soldiers at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre, which earned her a 1993 Ian Charleson Award nomination. Her other television credits include Cardiac Arrest (1994–1996), An Unsuitable Job for a Woman (1997–1999), Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years (2001), Cuckoo (2012–present), and Noughts + Crosses.

An enormous variety of games that can be analyzed mathematically have been played around the world and through history. The interest of the ethnomathematician usually centers on the ways in which the game represents informal mathematical thought as part of ordinary society, but sometimes has extended to mathematical analyses of games. It does not include the careful analysis of good play--but it may include the social or mathematical aspects of such analysis. A mathematical game that is well known in European culture is tic-tac-toe (noughts-and-crosses).

The book Noughts and Crosses is an alternate reality fiction based in a 21st-century parallel universe. Their world, technologically at least, is similar to the one we live in today: about the same jobs, same type of government etc. But there is one key difference: equality between races is lacking and there aren't many laws or constitutions to protect from discrimination. There are two races in the book: the Crosses (darker-skinned people who we in our current universe would call 'Black') the superior race with the individuals owning most of the wealth, good jobs, different and better schools etc.

That works, and after serving a few months in prison for LM membership, Jude accuses LM second-in-command Andrew Dorn of Cara's murder and claims Dorn is a government informer; Andrew is soon shot dead by the LM. Jude, even though Sephy saved his miserable life, still holds his grudge against her and plots a terrible revenge. Sephy's life begins to fall apart. The Crosses hate her because she helped Jude escape the noose, the noughts because she did not come to his aid sooner. She hugs her daughter too tightly while she sing the famous song "Rainbow Child".

Control of the board was determined by the use of buzzers. After answering the question correctly, the contestant was given the choice of which blocks on the board to turn over. For example, if a square displayed a "nought", one rotation would see the square turn blank; two would see it replaced with a "cross", three with another blank and on the fourth turn it would revert to a "nought". Tactical play would lead to the contestant building up lines of noughts or crosses, for which points were awarded (10 points per horizontal, vertical or diagonal line).

Part II of Volume III starts with the invitation of the Prime Minister (Lloyd George) to rejoin the government on 16 July 1917 as either the Ministry of Munitions (which he chose) or the newly created Air Ministry. He says that to the end of 1915 the resources of Britain exceeded the ability to use them; megalomania was a virtue and so was adding one or two noughts to orders. By now, after three years (twenty months) the island was an arsenal with the new national factories beginning to function. But the fighting fronts now absorbed all the production.

After receiving positive reviews, the Tom Fool production transferred to London, where Madden was spotted by a team from Shakespeare's Globe. In his final year at the conservatoire, he was cast as Romeo in a production of Romeo and Juliet at the modern Globe Theatre in London, after which the company embarked on a tour of the production during the summer of 2007. In her review of the production, Susan Elkin of The Stage highlighted Madden's "gravelly Glaswegian, almost childlike Romeo". He played Callum McGregor in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Malorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses in 2008.

During his period at Radio 1, Brookes was on the Top of the Pops host roster and also presented Beat the Teacher on BBC television, a children's quiz where pupils took on teachers in a general knowledge game based on noughts and crosses. He was the last of the show's three presenters, following Howard Stableford and ex-Manfred Mann singer Paul Jones. He also hosted the dating show Love at First Sight and the angling show Tight Lines on Sky. He also appeared in the Brass Eye series, in which he read an appeal against the fictitious drug cake.

Alain Resnais and Vierny made 10 films together from 1955 to 1984, starting with the Holocaust film Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard in original French) and ending with L'amour à mort. He was the cinematographer of choice for British film-maker Peter Greenaway from A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) onward, and shot virtually everything Greenaway directed, including his television work, up to and including 8½ Women (1999). Greenaway has also referred to Vierny as his "most important collaborator". Vierny also worked with such directors as Luis Buñuel (Belle de jour), Raoul Ruiz, Pierre Kast, Chris Marker and Paul Paviot.

In an interview for The Times, Blackman said that before writing Noughts & Crosses, her protagonists' ethnicities had never been central to the plots of her books. She has also said, "I wanted to show black children just getting on with their lives, having adventures, and solving their dilemmas, like the characters in all the books I read as a child." Blackman eventually decided to address racism directly. She reused some details from her own experience, including an occasion when she needed a plaster and found they were designed to be inconspicuous only on white people's skin.

Diagram from Nichols' patent showing a cube held together with magnets In March 1970, Larry D. Nichols invented a 2×2×2 "Puzzle with Pieces Rotatable in Groups" and filed a Canadian patent application for it. Nichols's cube was held together by magnets. Nichols was granted on 11 April 1972, two years before Rubik invented his Cube. On 9 April 1970, Frank Fox applied to patent an "amusement device", a type of sliding puzzle on a spherical surface with "at least two 3×3 arrays" intended to be used for the game of noughts and crosses.

In the year of 2019, it was reported that Jay-Z worked out a music deal for former mentor Jaz-O's Kingz Kounty Media Group to distributed through Roc Nation. Roc Nation produced a television docuseries Free Meek about Meek Mill's ongoing battle with the U.S. justice system following a disputed conviction in 2007. The five-part series premiered August 9, 2019, on Amazon Prime Video, and was executive produced by Meek Mill and Jay-Z. In 2020, Roc Nation also produced the Super Bowl LIV halftime show and co-produced the BBC television drama series Noughts + Crosses with Participant and ITV Studios' Mammoth Screen.

Campbell's radio career included playing Poodoo in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a part specifically written for him. The Radio 3 literary programme The Verb included Campbell as a regular contributor; in such spots as Campbell's Book Soup he became an upturner of bibliographic rocks, revealing unconsidered trifles to the hilarity of fellow contributors. His film work included Derek Jarman's The Tempest (1979), Breaking Glass (1980), Joshua Then and Now (1985), The Bride (1985), Chris Bernard's Letter to Brezhnev (1985), Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts (1985), Charles Crichton's A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Hard Men (1996), Alice in Wonderland (1999), Saving Grace (2000) and Creep (2004).

Luper is a recurring off- stage character in Greenaway's early films, and would eventually appear on film in the epic series The Tulse Luper Suitcases (2003 onwards), which is itself named in The Falls. The Falls includes clips of a number of Greenaway's early shorts. It also anticipates some of his later films: the subject of biography 27, Propine Fallax, is a pseudonym for Cissie Colpitts, the central figure of Drowning by Numbers (1988), while the car accident in biography 28 prefigures that in A Zed and Two Noughts (1985). The largely formal and deadpan manner of the narration contrasts with the absurdity of the content.

Boyd put much effort into considering the unique conditions of Australia and subsequently developed a style "related to Australian materials and conditions, to [the] light and its connection to Australian landscape". References to the work of Walter Burley Griffin are evident with large living spaces or courtyards becoming the centre of the house. The influence of Louis Kahn is also evident in the floor plan, where Boyd creates a sense of formality in the layout through the use of a perfect square. The use of such geometry also reflects the client’s profession as a mathematician and was described as "a plan of noughts and crosses".

The Claim is Michael Nyman's first (and, as of 2008, only) score for a Western, and his second collaboration with Michael Winterbottom. In it, in particular, in "The Shootout," Nyman pays homage to Ennio Morricone's Western scores. "The Shootout" also incorporates material from A Zed & Two Noughts and Prospero's Books in a layered manner with elements of the main themes of the score and a Morricone-style trumpet motif. The score includes the principal scalar riff that appears in numerous Nyman works, including Out of the Ruins, String Quartet No. 3, À la folie, Carrington, the rejected score from Practical Magic, and The End of the Affair.

Similarly if any other two of the above seven elements of W36 fall into the same class. Since we have a contradiction in all cases, the original hypothesis must be false; thus there must exist at least one combinatorial line consisting entirely of noughts or entirely of crosses. The above argument was somewhat wasteful; in fact the same theorem holds for H = 4. If one extends the above argument to general values of n and c, then H will grow very fast; even when c = 2 (which corresponds to two-player tic-tac- toe) the H given by the above argument grows as fast as the Ackermann function.

The different names of the game are more recent. The first print reference to "noughts and crosses" (nought being an alternative word for zero), the British name, appeared in 1858, in an issue of Notes and Queries. The first print reference to a game called "tick-tack-toe" occurred in 1884, but referred to "a children's game played on a slate, consisting in trying with the eyes shut to bring the pencil down on one of the numbers of a set, the number hit being scored". "Tic-tac-toe" may also derive from "tick-tack", the name of an old version of backgammon first described in 1558.

Callie Rose's best friend and later boyfriend, Tobey, is worried about his own future. As a Nought boy at an exclusive school, Tobey hopes to keep out of trouble, go to university, get a good job and leave behind the dangerous streets of his childhood. However, he cannot keep clinging to some kind of no-man's land while the neighbourhood around him is carved up by rival gangs, one headed by a ruthless man, Alex McAuley, the head of a gang of Noughts, and another headed by the Dowds, the head of a gang of Crosses. Both are powerful gangs that frequently injure and kill each other's members as well as suspected informants.

It helped to define the emergent visual signature of the iconic 1980s magazine, The Face. His first cover subject was John Lydon, and Pyke's predilection for distinctive, graphically adventurous portraiture was immediately evident. He sought to develop his style by joining the Film Centre Stream course at the London College of Printing in 1982, though he was an unconventional student, working as much on his own projects as college assignments. His independent mind attracted the film director Peter Greenaway for whom Pyke created photographic works used in his films, stills and the poster shots for A Zed and Two Noughts, The Belly of an Architect, Drowning by Numbers and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover.

Eric Cecil Deacon (born 25 May 1950 in Oxford) is an English actor perhaps best known for his role in the 1985 film A Zed & Two Noughts, directed by Peter Greenaway, in which he acted alongside his brother Brian. He trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and in repertory theatre. His other film roles include The Sex Thief (1973), It Could Happen to You (1975), À nous les petites Anglaises (1976), and Yesterday's Hero (1979). He has been very active on television with credits including: Z-Cars, Survivors, Secret Army, Minder, Doctor Who (in the serial Timelash), C.A.T.S. Eyes, Dempsey and Makepeace, The Bill, Prime Suspect, Lovejoy, Casualty, Doctors and London's Burning.

Today's Airbus wings are made at Broughton in Flintshire, and all the undercarriage is made in Cheltenham (Messier-Bugatti-Dowty). In 1951 on an EDSAC computer at Cambridge, Sandy Douglas made the world's first computer game with a digital graphical display – a version of Noughts, and Crosses; the LEO (computer), the world's first commercial computer developed by John Simmons at J. Lyons and Co., was a Cambridge EDSAC. Sinclair Research was based in Cambridge, as was its competitor in the 1980s, Acorn Computers. Sinclair invented the (£80 current value) Sinclair Executive in 1972, the world's first slimline pocket calculator; then it invented the world's first digital quartz watch, the Black Watch (which had technical problems) in 1975.

This is Nyman's last score for a major motion picture to date, and his last soundtrack release, other than compilation soundtracks. The score includes the song "If" (as "Rochester's farewell", with partially changed lyrics, removal of the quotes from "Time Lapse" from A Zed & Two Noughts, and the addition of a setting of the Kyrie) performed by Hilary Summers, who originally performed it in the film, The Diary of Anne Frank (1995). It also includes an abridgement by Jeffreys of one of Wilmot's most famous poems, "Signior Dildo", also sung by Ms. Summers. A recurring theme on the album which first appears in "Upon drinking in a bowl" for solo viola, became the basis of the Interlude in C for Accent007 ensemble.

He was captain again in the 1983 season but resigned midway through, and this would prove to be his last first-class season, when Derbyshire came ninth in the Championship.Barry Wood at Cricket Archive He was then professional for Barnoldswick C.C.in the Ribblesdale league for the remainder of that season following the departure of their professional, Trevor Franklin, who joined the New Zealand squad and who subsequently sored a century at Lords against England. Wood subsequently played for Cheshire from 1986 to 1989, where he had the dubious distinction of recording five consecutive noughts. However, he also produced many fine performances, most notably in the historic win over Northamptonshire in the first round of the Nat West Trophy in 1988.

Like other early video games, after serving Douglas's purpose, the game was discarded. Douglas did not give the game a name beyond "noughts and crosses"; the name OXO first appeared as the name of the simulation file created by computer historian Martin Campbell- Kelly while creating a simulation of the EDSAC several decades later. Around the same time that OXO was completed, Christopher Strachey expanded a draughts program he had originally written in 1951 and ported it to the Ferranti Mark 1, which showed the state of the game on a CRT display. OXO and Strachey's draughts program are the earliest known games to display visuals on an electronic screen, though it is unclear which of the two games was displayed first.

EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers, with memory that could be read from or written to, and had three small cathode ray tube screens to display the state of the memory; Douglas re-purposed one screen to demonstrate portraying other information to the user, such as the state of a noughts and crosses game. After the game served its purpose, it was discarded on the original hardware but later successfully reconstructed. OXO, along with a draughts game by Christopher Strachey completed around the same time, is one of the earliest known games to display visuals on an electronic screen. Under some definitions, it thus may qualify as the first video game, though other definitions exclude it due to its lack of moving or real-time updating graphics.

He wrote introductions for George Frideric Handel's Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 and interviewed George Brecht in 1976. One of his earliest film scores was the British sex comedy Keep It Up Downstairs (1976), and he has since scored numerous films, many of them European art films, including several of those directed by Peter Greenaway. Nyman drew frequently on early music sources in his scores for Greenaway's films: Henry Purcell in The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) (which included Memorial and Miserere Paraphrase), Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber in A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Drowning by Numbers (1988), and John Dowland in Prospero's Books (1991), largely at the request of the director. He wrote settings to various texts by Mozart for Letters, Riddles and Writs, part of Not Mozart.

With the support from Time Out Hong Kong and Diesel, the band then released its debut album "The King Lost His Pink" on 28 November 2009, with the album mixed and mastered by Kenneth Tse from The invisible Men, and the album cover designed and painted by Simon Birch. Being described as "The most charismatic band to have emerged in southern China in recent years" by TIME Magazine, the band has been selected into the "Hong Kong Top List: 20 people to watch" by CNNGo in December 2009. Yanyan Pang departed from the band in July 2009. Since then the band went on as a 4-piece with supporting from different bassists namely Vanilla Lau (aka Winnie Lau) (Tacit Closet, Noughts and Exes) and Alvin Lo. Kento Anything was then being recruited as bassist in February 2010.

It was quite effective as an ice-breaker and a vehicle for Sam's very sophisticated sense of humour;it also allowed Sam to get to know his waiter better - this always fostered good relations better those being served and those doing the serving. Occasionally the discussions got a little bit heated, particularly if the waiter tried to deny the existence of the offending material in his food. While waiting for the food to be served, Sam liked to play noughts and crosses on paper napkins with his charges. Another of his favourite games which he used to pass the time was Animal, Vegetable and Mineral; this was in the days before the advent of the smart phone and one had to use simple devices in order to alleviate the boredom of waiting by playing games using things like pen and paper or speech.

After the resounding reception of MENACE, Michie was invited to the US Office of Naval Research, where he was commissioned to build a "Boxes"-running program for an IBM Computer for use at Stanford University. Michie went on to create a simulation program of MENACE on a Pegasus 2 computer with the aid of D. Martin. There have been multiple recreations of MENACE in more recent years, both in its original physical form and as a computer program.Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine In Empirical Modelling Although not as a functional computer, in examples of demonstration, MENACE has been used as a teaching aid for various neural network classes,Ute Schmid - "Interactive Learning with Mutual Explanations" (How Humans and Machine Learning Systems can Profit From Each Other) - University of Bamberg, Germany Link including a well-publicised demonstration from Cambridge Researcher Matthew Scroggs.

A new initiative was also created to groom young music journalists. 8 talented Esplanade Youths go through a 4-month long mentorship with veteran musician, writer and academic Kevin Mathews, to create the Baybeats Buzz articles profiling bands as well as documenting the festival behind-the-scenes. The line-up for 2011 included Arajua, Noughts and Exes (Hong Kong), Caracal, Apartmentkhunpa (Thailand), We The Thousands, Ruins & Remains, The Dirt Radicals, The Guilt, Reza Salleh (Malaysia), Like Silver (Malaysia), Riot !n Magenta, Bangkutaman (Indonesia), Turbo Goth (The Philippines), Cheating Sons, Furniture (Malaysia), Pet Conspiracy (China), Bear Culture, You & I Collide, Moscow Olympics (The Philippines), Buddhistson (Japan), Opposition Party, Tenderfist (Malaysia), Charles J Tan, Hollywood Nobody (Indonesia), Seyra, The Rejeks, Protocol Afro (Indonesia), Error 99 (Thailand), My Writes, Kate of Kale, Wolfgang (The Philippines), Ossuary, Nicholas Chim, and Julianne (The Philippines).

After graduating from the now merged Central School of Speech and Drama Ifeachor shot her first feature film ‘Blooded’ directed by Sundance film festival winner Ed Boase and appeared in two commercials. Ifeachor then went on to make her theatre debut as 'Minerva' in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of Noughts & Crosses directed and adapted by Dominic Cooke. It was from here she made her television debut as Leila in "No Going Back" episode of BBC1’s Casualty. Ifeachor went on to play Rosalind in Tim Supple’s As You Like It for the opening of the new Curve Theatre in Leicester. Whilst rehearsing Ifeachor was offered the role of Abigail Naismith in David Tennant’s final two Doctor Who episodes ("The End Of Time" Parts One and Two) which were broadcast Christmas 2009 and New Years Day 2010.

Tree (1966), is a homage to the embattled tree growing in concrete outside the Royal Festival Hall on the South Bank in London. By the 1970s he was confident and ambitious and made Vertical Features Remake and A Walk Through H. The former is an examination of various arithmetical editing structures, and the latter is a journey through the maps of a fictitious country. In 1980, Greenaway delivered The Falls (his first feature-length film) – a mammoth, fantastical, absurdist encyclopaedia of flight-associated material all relating to ninety-two victims of what is referred to as the Violent Unknown Event (VUE). In the 1980s, Greenaway's cinema flowered in his best-known films, The Draughtsman's Contract (1982), A Zed & Two Noughts (1985), The Belly of an Architect (1987), Drowning by Numbers (1988), and his most successful (and controversial) film, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989).

The central image on the card shows Carole Hersee playing noughts and crosses with a clown doll, Bubbles the Clown, surrounded by various greyscales and colour test signals used to assess the quality of the transmitted picture. It was first broadcast on 2 July 1967 (the day after the first colour pictures appeared to the public on television) on BBC2. The card was developed by a BBC engineer, George Hersee (1924–2001), father of the girl in the central image. It was frequently broadcast during daytime downtime on BBC Television until 29 April 1983 and was still seen before the start of programmes until BBC1 began to broadcast 24 hours a day in November 1997, and on BBC2 until its downtime was replaced entirely by Pages from Ceefax in 1998, after which it was only seen during engineering work, and was last seen in this role in 1999.

The university authorities supported this, as they wanted to forcibly remove the "nasty habit of harassing computers for logic games", which they believed should be used only for serious military purposes. Players took to holding secret meetings in front of the massive computer in the late evenings when the operators were gone. Podgórski recalled that despite knowing that the game was designed to always beat the player, many people spent many hours trying to decipher the algorithm or win. In later years, variants of nim and Marienbad were the second most popular type of computer game present on Polish computers after noughts and crosses, since it was a relatively simple game to program. , who would later become the two-decade long host of Wheel of Fortune from the 1970s, proposed to Polish television a game show where players compete against a computer in nim on a Momik 8b minicomputer.

Over the next few years, during 1957–61, various computer games continued to be created in the context of academic computer and programming research, particularly as computer technology improved to include smaller, transistor-based computers on which programs could be created and run in real time, rather than operations run in batches. A few programs, however, while used to showcase the power of the computer they ran on were also intended as entertainment products; these were generally created by undergraduate students, such as at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where they were allowed on occasion to develop programs for the TX-0 experimental computer. These interactive graphical games were created by a community of programmers, many of them students affiliated with the Tech Model Railroad Club (TMRC) led by Alan Kotok, Peter Samson, and Bob Saunders. The games included Tic-Tac-Toe, which used a light pen to play a simple game of noughts and crosses against the computer, and Mouse in the Maze.

Conversely, Nyman composed music for another adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the ballet-opera Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, soon after Prospero's Books, some of which was derived from La Traversée de Paris. Their 1992 album, The Essential Michael Nyman Band, may appear to be a greatest hits compilation, but is actually composed of the concert versions of various film pieces, having undergone years of revisions and refinement, are significantly different from their soundtrack counterparts, to a far more severe extent than typical differences between classical music performances. This album also contains two cuts from the film score to A Zed & Two Noughts, which was originally performed by an orchestra of musicians who were never members of the band, with solos by band members Nyman, Balanescu, Perry, and Leonard. Similarly, The Piano was performed by members of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Harle, Roach, Findon, and Nyman, but is also part of the band's repertoire.

The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator in 1948 The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) mainframe computer was built in the University of Cambridge's Mathematical Laboratory between 1946 and 6 May 1949, when it ran its first program, and remained in use until 11 July 1958. The EDSAC was one of the first stored-program computers, with memory that could be read from or written to, and filled an entire room; it included three 35×16 dot matrix cathode ray tubes (CRTs) to graphically display the state of the computer's memory. As a part of a thesis on human-computer interaction, Sandy Douglas, a doctoral candidate in mathematics at the university, used one of these screens to portray other information to the user; he chose to do so via displaying the current state of a game. Douglas used the EDSAC to simulate a game of noughts and crosses, and display the state of the game on the screen.

Stuart Moore's writing includes Civil War, the first in a line of prose novels from Marvel Comics, and two stories for Amazon's Kindle Worlds program: X-O Manowar: Noughts and Crosses and Shadowman: Sunshine and Shadow. Other prose novels include American Meat, Reality Bites, and John Carter: The Movie Novelization. His comics and graphic novel work includes the original science-fiction series Earthlight, Shadrach Stone, and PARA; Web of Spider- Man, Namor: The First Mutant, and Wolverine Noir (Marvel); Firestorm and Detective Comics (DC Comics); the multicultural superhero team The 99; the comics adaptation of the bestselling novel Redwall; assorted Star Trek, Transformers, and Stargate projects; and two volumes of the award-winning The Nightmare Factory. Stuart is also a freelance editor and partner in Botfriend, a graphic novel packaging company. He has worked as a book editor at St. Martin’s Press, publishing a wide variety of science fiction and pop culture books.