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This is a list of musical compositions or pieces of music that have unusual time signatures. "Unusual" is here defined to be any time signature other than simple time signatures with top numerals of 2, 3, or 4 and bottom numerals of 2, 4, or 8, and compound time signatures with top numerals of 6, 9, or 12 and bottom numerals 4, 8, or 16.
* Normal human body temperature is 36.8 °C ±0.7 °C, or 98.2 °F ±1.3 °F. The commonly given value 98.6 °F is simply the exact conversion of the nineteenth-century German standard of 37 °C. Since it does not list an acceptable range, it could therefore be said to have excess (invalid) precision.
Old thermometer in a pharmacy in Vienna, showing room temperature by Reaumur scale. Réaumur and Celsius scale on thermometer. Private collection, central Europe. The Réaumur scale (French pronunciation: [ʁeomy(ː)ʁ]; °Ré, °Re, °r), also known as the "octogesimal division", [1] is a temperature scale for which the melting and boiling points of water are defined as 0 and 80 degrees ...
A four-month-old baby died during the July 4 holiday weekend from heat-related illness after being on a boat with her family in scorching 121-degree temperatures.
Although attempts at a general introduction were made, the unit was only adopted in some countries, and for specialised areas such as surveying, [15] [7] [16] mining [17] and geology. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Today, the degree, 1 / 360 of a turn , or the mathematically more convenient radian , 1 / 2 π of a turn (used in the SI system of ...
melting point of an alloy of equal parts of bismuth and tin 57: 3 + 1 ⁄ 4: melting point of an alloy of one part bismuth and two parts tin 68: 3 + 1 ⁄ 2: melting point of an alloy of one part bismuth and eight parts tin 81: melting point of bismuth 96: 4: melting point of lead 114: 4 + 1 ⁄ 4: heat of bodies that can barely be seen glowing ...
12-tone equal temperament chromatic scale on C, one full octave ascending, notated only with sharps. Play ascending and descending ⓘ. 12 equal temperament (12-ET) [a] is the musical system that divides the octave into 12 parts, all of which are equally tempered (equally spaced) on a logarithmic scale, with a ratio equal to the 12th root of 2 (≈ 1.05946).
Robert Recorde (c. 1510 – 1558) was a Welsh [1] [2] physician and mathematician. He invented the equals sign (=) and also introduced the pre-existing plus (+) and minus (−) signs to English speakers in 1557.