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  2. What3words - Wikipedia

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    What3words divides the world into a grid of 57 trillion 3-by-3-metre (10 ft × 10 ft) squares, each of which has a three-word address. The company says they do their best to remove homophones and spelling variations; [25] however, at least 32 pairs of English near-homophones still remain.

  3. Word addressing - Wikipedia

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    Word addressing. In computer architecture, word addressing means that addresses of memory on a computer uniquely identify words of memory. It is usually used in contrast with byte addressing, where addresses uniquely identify bytes. Almost all modern computer architectures use byte addressing, and word addressing is largely only of historical ...

  4. Memory address - Wikipedia

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    Memory address. In a computer using virtual memory, accessing the location corresponding to a memory address may involve many levels. In computing, a memory address is a reference to a specific memory location used at various levels by software and hardware. [1] Memory addresses are fixed-length sequences of digits conventionally displayed and ...

  5. Open Location Code - Wikipedia

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    Open Location Code. The Open Location Code (OLC) is a geocode based in a system of regular grids for identifying an area anywhere on the Earth. [1] It was developed at Google's Zürich engineering office, [2] and released late October 2014. [3] Location codes created by the OLC system are referred to as " plus codes ".

  6. Address - Wikipedia

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    Illuminated address to see better at night. An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name.

  7. Cache placement policies - Wikipedia

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    This means there are 14 – (6+2) = 6 tag bits, which are stored in tag field to match the address on cache request. Below are memory addresses and an explanation of which cache line they map to: Address 0x0000 (tag - 0b00_0000, index – 0b00_0000, offset – 0b00) corresponds to block 0 of the memory and maps to the set 0 of the cache.

  8. List of writing systems - Wikipedia

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    Blissymbols – A constructed ideographic script used primarily in Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). iConji – A constructed ideographic script used primarily in social networking. Isotype (picture language) A wide variety of notations. Linear B also incorporates ideograms.

  9. World map - Wikipedia

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    World map. A world map is a map of most or all of the surface of Earth. World maps, because of their scale, must deal with the problem of projection. Maps rendered in two dimensions by necessity distort the display of the three-dimensional surface of the Earth. While this is true of any map, these distortions reach extremes in a world map.