Terry Li

Toronto, Canada

Age: 25

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What's next in this number series?

sequences-and-series asked Feb 21 at 15:57

math.stackexchange.com

31 votes

Google Interview: Arrangement of Blocks

algorithm google language-agnostic combinatorics asked Oct 7 '11 at 20:40

stackoverflow.com

29 votes

What does a single letter “J” mean in emailing?

meaning meaning-in-context email asked Oct 31 '11 at 19:25

english.stackexchange.com

26 votes

Rare cases where MACROs must be used

c++ c macros asked Dec 14 '11 at 18:29

stackoverflow.com

20 votes

Why “Greater Toronto” rather than “Great Toronto”

word-choice etymology adjectives names comparative asked Oct 26 '11 at 20:18

english.stackexchange.com

19 votes

“We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”

meaning-in-context asked Dec 10 '11 at 3:55

english.stackexchange.com

13 votes

Sentence Construction: “Just Because … Does Not Mean”

pronouns conjunctions sentence-patterns asked Nov 7 '11 at 19:17

english.stackexchange.com

11 votes

“To be subject to” vs. “to be subjected to”

meaning word-choice differences past-participle asked Oct 20 '11 at 16:45

english.stackexchange.com

10 votes

Any other good way of saying “Happy Birthday”?

phrase-requests expressions greetings expression-choice asked Nov 2 '11 at 1:43

english.stackexchange.com

9 votes

“Interested” is to “interesting” as “curious” is to what?

single-word-requests analogy asked Dec 7 '11 at 19:05

english.stackexchange.com

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Word meaning “the act of intending to do nothing”

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Calling a Java method with no name

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Need Help Working with Law of Sines/Law of Cosines in Java

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What do you call the time period between notification of an event and the event?

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“Point to” and “point at”

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FInding a lower bound for a nlogn algorithm

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Part of speech for “please” followed by a verb

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Term for animals that live under water

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Correct capitalization for “of” in an acronym definition

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Difference between 'later' and 'later on'

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