Attacks like Stuxnet, Flame, Gauss and Shamoon are becoming commonplace and keep growing in sophistication.

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IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain and Homag's biggest customer, also expressed concern at Mr Gauss's departure.

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This year saw a number of high-profile attacks (think: Gauss and Flame) targeting both corporations and governments.

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Noted mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss gave us the normal distribution or bell curve.

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In 1820, German mathematician Karl Friedrich Gauss proposed cutting an enormous right triangle into the Siberian pine forest, creating a monument to the Pythagorean theorem big enough to see from outer space.

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John Gauss, commander of the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, said he believes the NIPRNET redesign offers a better security alternative than the almost total retreat from the Internet advocated by Lt.

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And, as Euler's successor, Carl Friedrich Gauss, was to discover, if you plot real numbers on one axis of a graph and imaginary ones on the other, you create a plane that represents both sorts of numbers.

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Gaussian distributions were not discovered by Gauss.

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