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Exceptions do not invalidate a norm or the necessity of norms. <ref>''Commonweal'', a liberal Catholic magazine - quoted by [[Bill Bennett]] in ''The Broken Hearth'', Page 198 </ref>
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A '''norm''' is an accepted standard of behavior, whether or not exceptions exist.<ref>Exceptions do not invalidate a norm or the necessity of norms. ''See'' ''Commonweal'', a liberal Catholic magazine - quoted by [[Bill Bennett]] in ''The Broken Hearth'', Page 198 </ref>
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== In [[mathematics]] ==
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In [[linear algebra]], the norm is the length of a vector, which is calculated by taking the square root of the sum of the squares of the vector's components.
    
== See also ==
 
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