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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    The term myriometer (abbr. mom, equivalent to 100 micrometers; frequently confused with the myriameter, 10 kilometers) [97] is deprecated; the decimal metric prefix myrio-[98] is obsolete [99] [100] [101] and was not included among the prefixes when the International System of Units was introduced in 1960. 100 μm – 1/10 of a millimeter

  3. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    So a fixed-point scheme might use a string of 8 decimal digits with the decimal point in the middle, whereby "00012345" would represent 0001.2345. In scientific notation, the given number is scaled by a power of 10, so that it lies within a specific range—typically between 1 and 10, with the radix point appearing immediately after the first ...

  4. List of Major League Baseball annual ERA leaders - Wikipedia

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    Although the statistic is traditionally recorded to two decimal places by most sources, [14] [15] [16] the 1988 American League title was decided by a margin of less than one hundredth of a run when Allan Anderson's ERA of 2.446 (55 earned runs in 202 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings) [17] bested Teddy Higuera's 2.455 mark (62 earned runs in 227 + 1 ⁄ 3 ...

  5. Apparent magnitude - Wikipedia

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    Asteroid 65 Cybele and two stars in the constellation Aquarius, with their magnitudes labeled. Apparent magnitude (m) is a measure of the brightness of a star, astronomical object or other celestial objects like artificial satellites.

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  7. Barnard's Star - Wikipedia

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    Barnard's Star is a small red dwarf star in the constellation of Ophiuchus.At a distance of 5.96 light-years (1.83 pc) from Earth, it is the fourth-nearest-known individual star to the Sun after the three components of the Alpha Centauri system, and is the closest star in the northern celestial hemisphere. [15]

  8. Instructions per second - Wikipedia

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    Computer processing efficiency, measured as the power needed per million instructions per second (watts per MIPS) Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed.

  9. Greensboro, North Carolina - Wikipedia

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    Greensboro (/ ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ə r oʊ / ⓘ; [5] locally / ˈ ɡ r iː n z b ʌr ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States.At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [6]