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  2. Henry Briggs (mathematician) - Wikipedia

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    In 1624 his Arithmetica Logarithmica was published, in folio, a work containing the logarithms of thirty thousand natural numbers to fourteen decimal places [10] (1-20,000 and 90,001 to 100,000). The remaining logarithms of the numbers 20,001 to 90,000 were later calculated by Adriaan Vlacq in his table of logarithms of the numbers 1 to 100,000 ...

  3. Madhava's sine table - Wikipedia

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    Madhava's sine table is the table of trigonometric sines constructed by the 14th century Kerala mathematician-astronomer Madhava of Sangamagrama (c. 1340 – c. 1425). The table lists the jya-s or Rsines of the twenty-four angles from 3.75 ° to 90° in steps of 3.75° (1/24 of a right angle , 90°).

  4. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    For example, 10 million (1 crore) would be written as 1,00,00,000. In Pakistan, there is a greater tendency to use the standard western system, while using the Indian numbering system when conducting business in Urdu. In Sweden, the currency sometimes used the colon as decimal separator (1 234 567:89).

  5. Standard normal table - Wikipedia

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    The label for columns contains the second decimal place of Z. The values within the table are the probabilities corresponding to the table type. These probabilities are calculations of the area under the normal curve from the starting point (0 for cumulative from mean , negative infinity for cumulative and positive infinity for complementary ...

  6. Location arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Binary notation had not yet been standardized, so Napier used what he called location numerals to represent binary numbers. Napier's system uses sign-value notation to represent numbers; it uses successive letters from the Latin alphabet to represent successive powers of two: a = 2 0 = 1, b = 2 1 = 2, c = 2 2 = 4, d = 2 3 = 8, e = 2 4 = 16 and so on.

  7. Voiceless uvular plosive - Wikipedia

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    The voiceless uvular plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.It is pronounced like a voiceless velar plosive [k], except that the tongue makes contact not on the soft palate but on the uvula.

  8. List of Birmingham City F.C. managers - Wikipedia

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    Lee Clark led Birmingham to a mid-table finish in his first season, but escaped relegation to the third tier on goal difference via Paul Caddis's stoppage-time equaliser at Bolton Wanderers in the last match of 2013–14. Continuing poor form, with only one home league win in more than a year, brought Clark's dismissal in October 2014.