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  2. Telescoping effect - Wikipedia

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    The former is known as backward telescoping or time expansion, and the latter as is known as forward telescoping. [ 1 ] The approximate time frame in which events switch from being displaced backward in time to forward in time is three years, with events occurring three years in the past being equally likely to be reported with forward ...

  3. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    63.8 Gs: The approximate time since the beginning of the Anno Domini era as of 2019 – 2,019 years, and traditionally the time since the birth of Jesus Christ. 194.67 Gs: The approximate lifespan of time capsule Crypt of Civilization, 28 May 1940 – 28 May 8113 363 Gs: (11.5 ka): The time since the beginning of the Holocene epoch

  4. Tickhill Psalter - Wikipedia

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    It is difficult to determine the exact time or date this manuscript was created, but there are some clues that give an approximate time frame. John de Tickhill first came into power at the Worksop Priory during the year 1303, which is when he would have been able to start production on this manuscript. [2]

  5. Time - Wikipedia

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    Time is the continuous progression of existence that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, and into the future. [1] [2] [3] It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to compare the duration of events (or the intervals between them), and to quantify rates of change of quantities in material reality or in the ...

  6. Age of the universe - Wikipedia

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    This measurement is made by using the location of the first acoustic peak in the microwave background power spectrum to determine the size of the decoupling surface (size of the universe at the time of recombination). The light travel time to this surface (depending on the geometry used) yields a reliable age for the universe.

  7. Exact statistics - Wikipedia

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    Exact statistics, such as that described in exact test, is a branch of statistics that was developed to provide more accurate results pertaining to statistical testing and interval estimation by eliminating procedures based on asymptotic and approximate statistical methods.

  8. Heuristic (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    The objective of a heuristic is to produce a solution in a reasonable time frame that is good enough for solving the problem at hand. This solution may not be the best of all the solutions to this problem, or it may simply approximate the exact solution. But it is still valuable because finding it does not require a prohibitively long time.

  9. Conservation law - Wikipedia

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    There are also approximate conservation laws. These are approximately true in particular situations, such as low speeds, short time scales, or certain interactions. Conservation of mechanical energy; Conservation of mass (approximately true for nonrelativistic speeds) Conservation of baryon number (See chiral anomaly and sphaleron)