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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    The body [h] of non-scientific/ non-technical articles may use either the % symbol or the word(s) percent (American English) or per cent (British English): 10 percent; ten percent; 4.5 per cent. Ranges are written 10–12% , ten to twelve per cent , or ten to twelve percent ; not ten–twelve per cent , 10%–12% , or 10 to 12% .

  3. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The siriometer is an obsolete astronomical measure equal to one million astronomical units, i.e., one million times the average distance between the Sun and Earth. [13] This distance is equal to about 15.8 light-years, 149.6 Pm, or 4.8 parsecs, and is about twice the distance from Earth to the star Sirius. [14]

  4. English language - Wikipedia

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    English is the largest language by number of speakers. English is spoken by communities on every continent and on islands in all the major oceans. [75] The countries where English is spoken can be grouped into different categories according to how English is used in each country.

  5. Shannon–Fano coding - Wikipedia

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    Here, ⌈ ⌉ is the ceiling function, meaning the smallest integer greater than or equal to . Once the codeword lengths have been determined, we must choose the codewords themselves. One method is to pick codewords in order from most probable to least probable symbols, picking each codeword to be the lexicographically first word of the correct ...

  6. Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The English name of "Singapore" is an anglicisation of the native Malay name for the country, Singapura (pronounced), which was in turn derived from the Sanskrit word for 'lion city' (Sanskrit: सिंहपुर; romanised: Siṃhapura; Brahmi: 𑀲𑀺𑀁𑀳𑀧𑀼𑀭; literally "lion city"; siṃha means 'lion', pura means 'city' or 'fortress'). [9]

  7. Flesch–Kincaid readability tests - Wikipedia

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    "The Flesch–Kincaid" (F–K) reading grade level was developed under contract to the U.S. Navy in 1975 by J. Peter Kincaid and his team. [1] Related U.S. Navy research directed by Kincaid delved into high-tech education (for example, the electronic authoring and delivery of technical information), [2] usefulness of the Flesch–Kincaid readability formula, [3] computer aids for editing tests ...

  8. 6 - Wikipedia

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    Divided in six arias, Hexachordum Apollinis is generally regarded as one of the pinnacles of Johann Pachelbel's oeuvre. [ 39 ] The theme of the sixth album by Dream Theater, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence , was the number six: the album has six songs, and the sixth song—that is, the complete second disc—explores the stories of six ...

  9. Nuclear fusion - Wikipedia

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    11 5 B → 3 4 2 He ... For reactions with two products, the energy is divided between them in inverse proportion to their masses, as shown. In most reactions with ...