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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

Specialty Definition: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

DomainDefinition

Computing

Frequently asked question (FAQ, or rarely FAQL, FAQ list) A document provided for many Usenet newsgroups (and, more recently, World-Wide Web services) which attempts to answer questions which new readers often ask. These are maintained by volunteers and posted regularly to the newsgroup. You should always consult the FAQ list for a group before posting to it in case your question or point is common knowledge. The collection of all FAQ lists is one of the most precious and remarkable resources on the Internet. It contains a huge wealth of up-to-date expert knowledge on many subjects of common interest. Accuracy of the information is greatly assisted by its frequent exposure to criticism by an interested, and occasionally well-informed, audience (the readers of the relevant newsgroup). The main FTP archive for FAQs is on a computer called RTFM at MIT, where they can be accessed either by group (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/) or by hierarchy (ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/). There is another archive at Imperial College (ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/usenet/news-info/), London, UK and a World-Wide Web archive in Ohio (http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/top.html), USA. The FAQs are also posted to Usenet newsgroups: news:comp.answers, news:news.answers and news:alt.answers. (1997-12-08). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

Specialty definitions using "FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION": FAQ, FAQ list, FAQL. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

frequently asked question

180

faq frequently asked question

19

frequently asked question about pregnancy

4

florida real estate frequently asked question

3

internet marketing frequently asked question

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 52 45 51 55 45 4E 54 4C 59      41 53 4B 45 44      51 55 45 53 54 49 4F 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01010010 01000101 01010001 01010101 01000101 01001110 01010100 01001100 01011001 00100000 01000001 01010011 01001011 01000101 01000100 00100000 01010001 01010101 01000101 01010011 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#82 &#69 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#78 &#84 &#76 &#89 &#32 &#65 &#83 &#75 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#73 &#79 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0052 0045 0051 0055 0045 004E 0054 004C 0059      0041 0053 004B 0045 0044      0051 0055 0045 0053 0054 0049 004F 004E

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

405239515539485446592355345393825155395354434948

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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