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  2. Binary-coded decimal - Wikipedia

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    Many non-integral values, such as decimal 0.2, have an infinite place-value representation in binary (.001100110011...) but have a finite place-value in binary-coded decimal (0.0010). Consequently, a system based on binary-coded decimal representations of decimal fractions avoids errors representing and calculating such values.

  3. Arc measurement of Delambre and Méchain - Wikipedia

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    To put into practice the decision taken by the National Convention, on 1 August 1793, to disseminate the new units of the decimal metric system, [50] it was decided to establish the length of the metre based on a fraction of the meridian in the process of being measured.

  4. Plimpton 322 - Wikipedia

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    Plimpton 322 is a Babylonian clay tablet, believed to have been written around 1800 BC, that contains a mathematical table written in cuneiform script.Each row of the table relates to a Pythagorean triple, that is, a triple of integers (,,) that satisfies the Pythagorean theorem, + =, the rule that equates the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle to the square of the hypotenuse.

  5. February 1965 - Wikipedia

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    Such regulations were ordered to be implemented "to ensure that the policy of equal opportunity and treatment is clearly stated"; the new requirements would be quickly accepted by the states, and by the end of 1965, there would not be a single segregated national guard unit in any of the fifty states. [112]

  6. The Ancestor's Tale - Wikipedia

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    The Platypus has had precisely the same time to evolve as the rest of mammals, even if it does not resemble our concestor 15. On its large bill, it has evolved a highly developed form of electroreception served by 40,000 electric sensors, and 60,000 mechanical push rods , which aid it in search of crustaceans in the mud.

  7. Diving cylinder - Wikipedia

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    The pressure vessel is a seamless cylinder normally made of cold-extruded aluminum or forged steel. [5] Filament wound composite cylinders are used in fire fighting breathing apparatus and oxygen first aid equipment because of their low weight, but are rarely used for diving, due to their high positive buoyancy.

  8. Elementary Education Act 1870 - Wikipedia

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    A sentence slowly dictated once by a few words at a time, from the same book. Arithmetic: Long division and compound rules (money). STANDARD IV Reading: A few lines of poetry or prose, at the choice of the inspector. Writing: A sentence slowly dictated once, by a few words at a time, from a reading book, such as is used in the first class of ...