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  2. Scaling (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Such a scaling changes the diameter of an object by a factor between the scale factors, the area by a factor between the smallest and the largest product of two scale factors, and the volume by the product of all three. The scaling is uniform if and only if the scaling factors are equal (v x = v y = v z). If all except one of the scale factors ...

  3. Scale factor (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    A scale factor of 1 ⁄ 10 cannot be used here, because scaling 160 by 1 ⁄ 10 gives 16, which is greater than the greatest value that can be stored in this fixed-point format. However, 1 ⁄ 11 will work as a scale factor, because the maximum scaled value, 160 ⁄ 11 = 14. 54, fits within this range. Given this set:

  4. Scale factor (cosmology) - Wikipedia

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    The scale factor is dimensionless, with counted from the birth of the universe and set to the present age of the universe: [4] giving the current value of as () or . The evolution of the scale factor is a dynamical question, determined by the equations of general relativity , which are presented in the case of a locally isotropic, locally ...

  5. Square–cube law - Wikipedia

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    If an animal were isometrically scaled up by a considerable amount, its relative muscular strength would be severely reduced, since the cross-section of its muscles would increase by the square of the scaling factor while its mass would increase by the cube of the scaling factor. As a result of this, cardiovascular and respiratory functions ...

  6. Determinant - Wikipedia

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    The determinant gives the signed n-dimensional volume of this parallelotope, () = (), and hence describes more generally the n-dimensional volume scaling factor of the linear transformation produced by A. [3] (The sign shows whether the transformation preserves or reverses orientation.)

  7. Eigenvalues and eigenvectors - Wikipedia

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    For example, λ may be negative, in which case the eigenvector reverses direction as part of the scaling, or it may be zero or complex. In this shear mapping the red arrow changes direction, but the blue arrow does not. The blue arrow is an eigenvector of this shear mapping because it does not change direction, and since its length is unchanged ...

  8. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    A fixed-point representation of a fractional number is essentially an integer that is to be implicitly multiplied by a fixed scaling factor. For example, the value 1.23 can be stored in a variable as the integer value 1230 with implicit scaling factor of 1/1000 (meaning that the last 3 decimal digits are implicitly assumed to be a decimal fraction), and the value 1 230 000 can be represented ...

  9. Scaling - Wikipedia

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    Scale invariance, a feature of objects or laws that do not change if scales of length, energy, or other variables are multiplied by a common factor Scaling law, a law that describes the scale invariance found in many natural phenomena; The scaling of critical exponents in physics, such as Widom scaling, or scaling of the renormalization group