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* Same thing in India, except we just call it [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|1st Term, 2nd Term, and 3rd Term.]] There are also three big exams each year, known as end-of-term exams or simply term exams, and three sets of holidays following the end of each term. The third one is the big summer vacation, which marks the end of the school year.
* Apparently the United States Marine Corps [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501550.html uses it too] (albeit with the fire team level as an exception). This is referred to as "triangularization" and was adopted by everyone from the German Wehrmacht in the 1930s. Previously, it was the rule of fours.
**Three gives a balance between forward and reserves, or pinning force and flanking force. If you have fours you will end up with having a disproportion of either or having to detach from one unit and attach to another with which it wasn't trained.
* The Rock, Paper, Scissors game (or Stone, Scissors, Paper, depending on where you are).
** Or the Malay version, which uses bird, water, rock.
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