library — [lī′brer΄ē, lībrər ē; ] also, though usually regarded as nonstandard, [lī′bər ē] n. pl. libraries [ME librarie < OFr < libraire, copyist < L librarius, n., transcriber of books, adj., of books < liber, a book, orig. inner bark or rind … English World dictionary
C standard library — The C Standard Library consists of a set of sections of the ANSI C standard in the programming language C. They describe a collection of headers and library routines used to implement common operations such as input/output[1] and string handling … Wikipedia
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Reliability of Wikipedia — Vandalism of a Wikipedia article. The section on the left is the normal, undamaged version; and on the right is the edited, damaged version. The reliabili … Wikipedia
