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  2. Table of mathematical symbols by introduction date - Wikipedia

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    unstrict inequality signs (less-than or equals to sign and greater-than or equals to sign) : 1670 (with the horizontal bar over the inequality sign, rather than below it) ...

  3. Template:Death-date and age - Wikipedia

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    Birth date. For accurate results, if year and month only was specified for death date, year and month should be specified for birth date (that is, the degree of precision should be in agreement). Julian dates may be used, but both Death and Birth dates must be on the same calendar. – (optional) 3: The death date to display.

  4. Subtraction - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the adjacent picture, there are 5 − 2 peaches—meaning 5 peaches with 2 taken away, resulting in a total of 3 peaches. Therefore, the difference of 5 and 2 is 3; that is, 5 − 2 = 3.

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  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Metric (SI) measurements generally use decimals, not fractions (5.25 mm, not 5 1 ⁄ 4 mm). Non-metric (imperial and US customary) measurements may use fractions or decimals ( 5 1 ⁄ 4 inches ; 5.25 inches ); the practice of reliable sources should be followed, and within-article consistency is desirable.

  7. Countdown - Wikipedia

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    In the context of a rocket launch, the "L minus Time" is the physical time before launch, e.g. "L minus 3 minutes and 40 seconds". "T minus Time" is a system to mark points at which actions necessary for the launch are planned - this time stops and starts as various hold points are entered, and so doesn't show the actual time to launch.

  8. Determination of the day of the week - Wikipedia

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    The basic approach of nearly all of the methods to calculate the day of the week begins by starting from an "anchor date": a known pair (such as 1 January 1800 as a Wednesday), determining the number of days between the known day and the day that you are trying to determine, and using arithmetic modulo 7 to find a new numerical day of the week.

  9. 5 - Wikipedia

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    5 is a Fermat prime, a Mersenne prime exponent, as well as a Fibonacci number. 5 is the first congruent number, as well as the length of the hypotenuse of the smallest integer-sided right triangle, making part of the smallest Pythagorean triple (3, 4, 5). [1] 5 is the first safe prime [2] and the first good prime.