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Web Mercator: Cylindrical Compromise Google: Variant of Mercator that ignores Earth's ellipticity for fast calculation, and clips latitudes to ~85.05° for square presentation. De facto standard for Web mapping applications. 1822 Gauss–Krüger = Gauss conformal = (ellipsoidal) transverse Mercator: Cylindrical Conformal Carl Friedrich Gauss
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment.It was first released in Japan on 4 March 2000, in North America on 26 October 2000, in Europe on 24 November 2000, in Australia on 30 November 2000, and other regions thereafter.
Explanatory notes. Built-in or optional monitors are CRTs unless mentioned otherwise.; The Space Saving Keyboard is a 87-key numpad-less version of the Model M. [1]The 25 Collegiate, intended for college students, had two 720 KB floppy drives, maxed out the RAM to 640 KB, and came packaged with the official PS/2 Mouse, Windows 2.0, and four blank floppy disks.
The Personal System/2 or PS/2 is IBM's second generation [1] [2] of personal computers. Released in 1987, it officially replaced the IBM PC , XT , AT , and PC Convertible in IBM's lineup. Many of the PS/2's innovations, such as the 16550 UART (serial port), 1440 KB 3.5-inch floppy disk format, 72-pin SIMMs , PS/2 port , and VGA video standard ...
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The Mercator Telescope is a 1.2 m telescope at the Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos on La Palma. It is operated by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven University), Belgium, in collaboration with the Observatory of the University of Geneva and named after Gerard Mercator , famous cartographer.
The Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) is a map projection system for assigning coordinates to locations on the surface of the Earth. Like the traditional method of latitude and longitude , it is a horizontal position representation , which means it ignores altitude and treats the earth surface as a perfect ellipsoid .
Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from Leuven, who married in 1536. [1] [2] Arnold grew up in Leuven and, as a 7-year-old boy, witnessed the arrest of his father, who was then a professor in Leuven. Gerardus Mercator was suspected of Lutheranism. His father was released after a few months.