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• r  by an unbroken line of descent
  she is related lineally to the Royal Family

• Thus Italians owe to the House of Savoy no such agelong allegiance as Hungarians feel toward the Habsburgs, or Japanese toward their 124th lineally descended Emperor.

Quotes

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• Raph Koster in CNN
  In computer science there's this term -- an N² problem,explains Koster. "This is where, as you add more things to a system, each new thing interacts with all the existing things so that problems scale exponentially rather than lineally....