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This was originally supposed to be a table showing the numbers 1 through 30 to the first through tenth powers.  Unfortunately, Rhea does not accept excel files.  Also, I tried to submit a text version by using spaces, since this is a courier font (at least in the editing window) and lines up properly; however, Rhea decided to eliminate any whitespace, thus removing my careful work.  Therefore, this page is now about...
 
This was originally supposed to be a table showing the numbers 1 through 30 to the first through tenth powers.  Unfortunately, Rhea does not accept excel files.  Also, I tried to submit a text version by using spaces, since this is a courier font (at least in the editing window) and lines up properly; however, Rhea decided to eliminate any whitespace, thus removing my careful work.  Therefore, this page is now about...
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Latest revision as of 10:27, 22 January 2010

This was originally supposed to be a table showing the numbers 1 through 30 to the first through tenth powers. Unfortunately, Rhea does not accept excel files. Also, I tried to submit a text version by using spaces, since this is a courier font (at least in the editing window) and lines up properly; however, Rhea decided to eliminate any whitespace, thus removing my careful work. Therefore, this page is now about...

Here is a trick for you: If you put a space at the beginning of the line, then Rhea will not remove the white spaces. Without the white space, Rhea interprets what you write as mediawiki code. With the white space, it does not. Here is an example, just look at the source code of this page to see how to write this.
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