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  2. Quantity - Wikipedia

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    For the complex case of unidentified amounts, the parts and examples of a mass are indicated with respect to the following: a measure of a mass (two kilos of rice and twenty bottles of milk or ten pieces of paper); a piece or part of a mass (part, element, atom, item, article, drop); or a shape of a container (a basket, box, case, cup, bottle ...

  3. Dimensionless quantity - Wikipedia

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    More specifically, counting numbers can be used to express countable quantities. [17] [18] The concept is formalized as quantity number of entities (symbol N) in ISO 80000-1. [19] Examples include number of particles and population size. In mathematics, the "number of elements" in a set is termed cardinality. Countable nouns is a related ...

  4. List of dimensionless quantities - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of well-known dimensionless quantities illustrating their variety of forms and applications. The tables also include pure numbers , dimensionless ratios, or dimensionless physical constants ; these topics are discussed in the article.

  5. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    but none of these primes p has 2^p-1 is known to be prime, the status of 2^(2^89-1)-1 and 2^(2^107-1)-1 are still unknown (see double Mersenne number), but if at least one of them is prime, then will disprove this conjecture (none of the 52 known Mersenne primes are == 1 mod 2^61-1 or 2^127-1), I think that this conjecture may be as hard as the ...

  6. Logarithmic scale - Wikipedia

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    Examples of equally spaced values are 10, 100, 1000, 10000, and 100000 (i.e., 10 1, 10 2, 10 3, 10 4, 10 5) and 2, 4, 8, 16, and 32 (i.e., 2 1, 2 2, 2 3, 2 4, 2 5). Exponential growth curves are often depicted on a logarithmic scale graph. A logarithmic scale from 0.1 to 100 The two logarithmic scales of a slide rule

  7. Relative change - Wikipedia

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    For example, we might want to calculate the relative change of −10 to −6. The above formula gives ⁠ (−6) − (−10) / −10 ⁠ = ⁠ 4 / −10 ⁠ = −0.4, indicating a decrease, yet in fact the reading increased. Measures of relative change are unitless numbers expressed as a fraction. Corresponding values of percent change would be ...

  8. Definitions of mathematics - Wikipedia

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    For example: Mathematics is the classification and study of all possible patterns. [14] Walter Warwick Sawyer, 1955. Yet another approach makes abstraction the defining criterion: Mathematics is a broad-ranging field of study in which the properties and interactions of idealized objects are examined. [15]

  9. Physical quantity - Wikipedia

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    Ampèremetre (Ammeter) A physical quantity (or simply quantity) [1] [a] is a property of a material or system that can be quantified by measurement.A physical quantity can be expressed as a value, which is the algebraic multiplication of a numerical value and a unit of measurement.