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Société Bic S.A., commonly called Bic and stylized as BiC, is a French manufacturing corporation based in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine. It was founded in 1945 by French aristocrat Marcel Bich and produces specifically disposable items; namely stationery , lighters , and shaving razors .
Both BIC and AIC attempt to resolve this problem by introducing a penalty term for the number of parameters in the model; the penalty term is larger in BIC than in AIC for sample sizes greater than 7. [1] The BIC was developed by Gideon E. Schwarz and published in a 1978 paper, [2] as a large-sample approximation to the Bayes factor.
A BIC lighter is a disposable lighter in production by Société Bic since 1973. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] According to the company, "BIC is the world's largest manufacturer of branded pocket lighters" and has "sold over 30 billion lighters!"
ISO 9362 is an international standard for Business Identifier Codes (BIC), a unique identifier for business institutions, [1] approved by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). [2] BIC is also known as SWIFT-BIC , SWIFT ID , or SWIFT code , after the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which ...
Bich formed Société Bic in 1953. [2] Bich partnered with poster designer Raymond Savignac to create the company's advertisements, who created the Bic Boy that later became part of the company's official logo. Bic won the first French Oscar for advertising, sponsored the Tour de France, and became an essential item and a household name. [4] [9]
The BIC Cristal (stylised as BiC Cristal and also known as the Bic Biro) is an inexpensive, disposable ballpoint pen mass-produced and sold by Société Bic of Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France. [1] It was introduced in 1950 and is the best-selling pen in the world, with the 100 billionth sold in September 2006.
Bic Hayes (Christian Hayes, born 1964), English musician Bic Runga (Briolette Kah Bic Runga, born 1976), New Zealand musician Blue Ivy Carter (born 2012), stage name B.I.C., an American singer, daughter of Beyoncé and Jay-Z
BIC TCP (Binary Increase Congestion control) is one of the congestion control algorithms that can be used for Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). BIC is optimized for high-speed networks with high latency: so-called long fat networks. For these networks, BIC has significant advantage over previous congestion control schemes in correcting for ...