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  2. Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel does some rounding and / or 'snap to zero' for most of its results, in average chopping the last 3 bits of the IEEE double representation. This behavior can be switched of by setting the formula in parentheses: = ( 1 + 2^-52 - 1 ). You will see that even that small value survives.

  3. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...

  4. List of chemical element name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Etymology of the chemical element names Element Original word Language of origin Meaning Nature of origin Name (symbol) Z Description (symbol etymology, former names) Hydrogen (H) 1 ὕδωρ (root: ὑδρ-) + γενής (hydor genes) Greek via Latin and French "water + begetter" descriptive

  5. Synthetic element - Wikipedia

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    Plutonium (Pu, atomic number 94), first synthesized in 1940, is another such element. It is the element with the largest number of protons (atomic number) to occur in nature, but it does so in such tiny quantities that it is far more practical to synthesize it. Plutonium is known mainly for its use in atomic bombs and nuclear reactors. [4]

  6. Naming of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    The first letter is always capitalized. While the symbol is often a contraction of the element's name, it may sometimes not match the element's English name; for example, "Pb" for lead (from Latin plumbum) or "W" for tungsten (from German Wolfram). Elements which have only temporary systematic names are given temporary three-letter symbols (e.g ...

  7. Help:Conditional expressions - Wikipedia

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    To make comparisons based on dates (e.g., if the current date and time is after some other date and time), first convert the time(s) to the number of seconds after January 1, 1970, using the function {{#time: U }}, then compare (or add, subtract, etc.) those numerical values.

  8. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    Functional notation: if the first is the name (symbol) of a function, denotes the value of the function applied to the expression between the parentheses; for example, (), ⁡ (+). In the case of a multivariate function , the parentheses contain several expressions separated by commas, such as f ( x , y ) {\displaystyle f(x,y)} .

  9. Bracket (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    If A is a subring of a ring B, and b is an element of B, then A[b] denotes the subring of B generated by A and b. This subring consists of all the elements that can be obtained, starting from the elements of A and b , by repeated addition and multiplication; equivalently, it is the smallest subring of B that contains A and b .