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sc is a cross-platform, free, TUI, spreadsheet and calculator application that runs on Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It has also been ported to Windows. It can be accessed through a terminal emulator, and has a simple interface and keyboard shortcuts resembling the key bindings of the Vim text editor. It can be used in a similar manner ...
This quarter system was adopted by the oldest universities in the English-speaking world (Oxford, founded circa 1096, [1] and Cambridge, founded circa 1209 [2]). Over time, Cambridge dropped Trinity Term and renamed Hilary Term to Lent Term, and Oxford also dropped the original Trinity Term and renamed Easter Term as Trinity Term, thus establishing the three-term academic "quarter" year widely ...
However, other sources define a semester as only containing two periods (fall and spring) of 15 weeks each and a trimester as containing three periods (fall, spring, summer) of 12 to 14 weeks each, and quarters of 10 weeks, [47] or semesters as being 15 to 17 weeks, trimesters 10 to 12 weeks, and quarters 10 weeks each.
Academic quarter only applies to time given in full hours, and the academic quarter can be removed by saying that the time is "on the dot" by adding the word "dot" ("prick" in Swedish) or an actual ".". E.g. 10 dot is 10:00. The dot removes one academic quarter, so in the evening time "on the dot" is written "dot dot" to remove both quarters.
Since they are three months each, they are also called trimesters. In the Gregorian calendar: First quarter, Q1: January 1 – March 31 (90 days or 91 days in leap years) [4] Second quarter, Q2: April 1 – June 30 (91 days) Third quarter, Q3: July 1 – September 30 (92 days) Fourth quarter, Q4: October 1 – December 31 (92 days)
They use the traditional quarter breakdown in the calculus sequence (differential, integral, multivariable) vs. a semester breakdown in the sequence. Thus, NU is a quarter school. Calwatch 22:03, 8 March 2008 (UTC) I attended NU as a graduate student (in linguistics, incidentally!). It's definitely on a 'quarter' system.
FET is a free and open-source time tabling app for automatically scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university. FET is written in C++ using the Qt cross-platform application framework. Initially, FET stood for "Free Evolutionary Timetabling"; as it is no longer evolutionary, the E in the middle can stand for anything the user ...
A semester or trimester hour must include at least 30 clock hours of instruction; and; A quarter hour must include at least 20 clock hours of instruction. For courses that are not required to use the conversion between credit hours and clock hours, a further definition is given in the Federal Student Aid Handbook of: [16]