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Harvard University University of California, Berkeley University of New Mexico Virginia Tech Wavelength: 3.4 m (88 MHz)–10 m (30 MHz) Telescope style: dipole antenna radio telescope Diameter: 500 m (1,640 ft 5 in) Collecting area: 3,000 m 2 (32,000 sq ft) Website: www.tauceti.caltech.edu /leda /
The Advantage Testing Foundation is an American not-for-profit educational organization based in New York City. Founded in 2007 by Arun Alagappan, the 501(c) public charity seeks to expand academic and professional opportunities for students of every socioeconomic background by sponsoring innovative educational programs and partnering with leading institutions across the United States.
Leda and the Swan, Roman marble possibly reflecting a lost work by Timotheos from the 300s BCE. More than two dozen examples of this statue survive. restored ()The historian Procopius claims, in his Secret History, that the Roman Empress Theodora acted in a reproduction of this particular myth at some point in her youth in the early sixth century CE prior to her becoming the empress.
Leda and the Swan, ancient fresco from Pompeii. In Greek mythology, Leda (/ ˈ l iː d ə, ˈ l eɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Λήδα [lɛ́ːdaː]) was an Aetolian princess who became a Spartan queen. According to Ovid, she was famed for her beautiful black hair and snowy skin. [1] Her myth gave rise to the popular motif in Renaissance and later art ...
LEDA is useful in the field of computational geometry due to its support for exact representations of real numbers via the leda_real datatype. This provides an advantage in accuracy over floating-point arithmetic. For example, calculations involving radicals are considerably more accurate when computed using leda_real.
The Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA) was a database of galaxies, created in 1983 at the Lyon Observatory. Each galaxy had a number assigned to it, which is now known as its PGC number. [ 2 ] The Principal Galaxies Catalogue (PGC), published in 1989, was based on the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database and contained cross-identifications ...
Leda Health was founded in 2019 by Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya in Brooklyn, New York [3] [4] as MeToo Kits and later rebranded as Leda Health after the Greek myth of Leda. [5] Campbell's decision to start Leda Health was driven by her own experience as a survivor of sexual assault , as she sought to help survivors face challenges in ...
Leda Atomica is organized according to a rigid mathematical framework, following the "divine proportion". Leda and the swan are set in a pentagon inside which has been inserted a five-point star of which Dalí made several sketches. The five points of the star symbolize the seeds of perfection: love, order, light (truth) willpower and word ...