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  2. Microsoft Excel - Wikipedia

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    Excel for the web is a free lightweight version of Microsoft Excel available as part of Office on the web, which also includes web versions of Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint. Excel for the web can display most of the features available in the desktop versions of Excel, although it may not be able to insert or edit them.

  3. Help:Advanced table formatting - Wikipedia

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    The answer is that when the table has a row without containing any rowspan=1 cell, this row is "compressed" upwards and disappears. Solution: divide one of the tall cells so that the row gets one rowspan=1 cell (and don't mind the eventual loss of text-centering). Then kill the border between them.

  4. Ancient Egyptian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian units of length are attested from the Early Dynastic Period.Although it dates to the 5th dynasty, the Palermo stone recorded the level of the Nile River during the reign of the Early Dynastic pharaoh Djer, when the height of the Nile was recorded as 6 cubits and 1 palm [1] (about 3.217 m or 10 ft 6.7 in).

  5. Tree height measurement - Wikipedia

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    The height of the tree above eye level is [h1 = sin(a) x D1]. The same process is used to measure the height or extension of the base of the tree above or below eye level where D1 is the distance to the base of the tree and (b) is the angle to the base of the tree.

  6. Japanese units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    [a] The "cloth" [14] or "whale" shaku (鯨尺, kujirajaku), named for tailors' and fabric merchants' baleen rulers, was 1 ⁄ 4 longer [14] and used in measuring cloth. (A longer unit of about 25 cloth shaku was the tan .) [ 14 ] Traditional Japanese clothing was reckoned using the "traditional clothing" shaku ( 呉服尺 , gofukujaku ), about ...

  7. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    Using a markable ruler, regular polygons with solid constructions, like the heptagon, are constructible; and John H. Conway and Richard K. Guy give constructions for several of them. [20] The neusis construction is more powerful than a conic drawing tool, as one can construct complex numbers that do not have solid constructions.

  8. Rolling straight-edge - Wikipedia

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    It was a development of an earlier technique of measuring road depressions manually with a ruler under a 10 feet (3.0 m) straight-edge. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] This method had later been developed by the British Department of Transport with the use of graduated wedges which were pushed under the ruler to measure the height, but remained a slow and ...

  9. Point (typography) - Wikipedia

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    The point was first established by the Milanese typographer, Francesco Torniella da Novara (c. 1490 – 1589) in his 1517 alphabet, L'Alfabeto.The construction of the alphabet is the first based on logical measurement called "Punto," which corresponds to the ninth part of the height of the letters or the thickness of the principal stroke.