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= March 28 =

TTC buses code e.g. 54A, 54E fares or metropasses
What do you need in order to get on the 54A bus on Lawrence Ave? Is metropass enough or do I need more than that? Please and Thanks.


 * A Metropass is enough. As you see on that page, the only TTC routes where an extra fare is charged are
 * downtown express buses (only routes 141–145)
 * buses operating outside Toronto (it doesn't clearly say so, but that means only when actually traveling outside Toronto)
 * The 54A and 54E do not go outside Toronto in any case, and neither one is a downtown express, so regular fares apply. (If you weren't using a pass, the regular cash fare or ticket/token fare would also apply, but I can't find anything on the web site that actually says so; apparently they think it's obvious.) --50.100.193.30 (talk) 03:59, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

help with a ? (9*9)
What is 9*9= ? look for all all poss. answer for math, text lango,to street lango -- 08:46, 28 March 2014‎ (UTC)‎


 * In Microsoft Excel, the * sign means multiply, so the answer would be 81, unless that's too obvious. Alansplodge (talk) 12:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)


 * And in Fortran, Cobol, and just about any standard language I can think of. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 13:08, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I would guess not in Lisp. —Tamfang (talk) 18:54, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * In APL, 9*9 would mean 99, which is 387420489.
 * As a regular expression in awk, Perl, grep, sed, and various other languages and programs, 9*9 matches zero or more 9's followed by a 9, which is equivalent to one or more 9's, i.e. 9, 99, 999, 9999 etc.
 * As a wildcard expression in UNIX shells and some other environments, 9*9 matches anything treated as a single component that starts with 9 and ends with another 9, i.e. 99, 9ABCD9, 96069, 9****9, etc. (but not just 9).
 * --50.100.193.30 (talk) 06:24, 29 March 2014 (UTC)


 * * redirects to asterisk which shows some possibilities which could apply to 9*9 in certain contexts. The most common in computers is multiplication where it's used because the characters in 9×9 and 9·9 are not on keyboards or in ASCII. PrimeHunter (talk) 13:06, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * The PLATO keyboard had $⟨&times;⟩$, but it printed as $⟨&ne;⟩$. —Tamfang (talk) 18:51, 28 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Is there some emoticon that uses that format? -- Jayron  32  13:10, 28 March 2014 (UTC)


 * I changed title to be useful. StuRat (talk) 13:13, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Note that for very large values of 9 it can be equal to 100. Count Iblis (talk) 19:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * WP:WHAAOE. See 0.999... --Dweller (talk) 12:14, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

Box 9 on the W2
What's up with that? 50.43.148.35 (talk) 18:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * According to this source, it's for advances on an employee's earned income tax credit. However, according to this IRS source, box 9 is to be left blank. This IRS source explains the mystery:  Earned income credit advances were abolished in 2010.  The box most likely still remains on the W-2 because renumbering the boxes would create more difficulty (for software meant to handle these forms, for example) than leaving a blank numbered box.  Marco polo (talk) 19:36, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Interesting...I wish that advance on EITC still existed :( 50.43.148.35 (talk) 19:48, 28 March 2014 (UTC)