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  2. The 10 to 1 ratio was an estimate made in 1972; current estimates put the ratio at either 3 to 1 or 1.3 to 1. [299] The total length of capillaries in the human body is not 100,000 km. That figure comes from a 1929 book by August Krogh, who used an unrealistically large model person and an inaccurately high density of capillaries.

  3. Van der Waals equation - Wikipedia

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    This universal (all ideal gases are represented by it) surface is normalized so that the black dot, with coordinates ,,, appears at the location (1,1,1) of the 3 dimensional plot space. This device makes it easy to compare this surface with the one generated by the van der Waals equation in Fig. C. Figures A and C are drawn with the same scales ...

  4. Adelstein-Lew controversy - Wikipedia

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    The significant and sudden increase in poker popularity among the general public is said to have happened during the period between 2003 and 2006. The game, and particularly its hold 'em variant, was played at home, in poker clubs, in casinos, in television programs, or in online platforms .

  5. Rounding - Wikipedia

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    For example, 1.6 would be rounded to 1 with probability 0.4 and to 2 with probability 0.6. Stochastic rounding can be accurate in a way that a rounding function can never be. For example, suppose one started with 0 and added 0.3 to that one hundred times while rounding the running total between every addition.

  6. Portal:Mathematics/Selected article archive - Wikipedia

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    Hilbert and his students supplied significant portions of the mathematic infrastructure required for quantum mechanics and general relativity. He is one of the founders of proof theory, mathematical logic, and the distinction between mathematics and metamathematics, and warmly defended Cantor's set theory and

  7. Graeco-Arabic translation movement - Wikipedia

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    The Graeco-Arabic translation movement was a large, well-funded, and sustained effort responsible for translating a significant volume of secular Greek texts into Arabic. [1] The translation movement took place in Baghdad from the mid-eighth century to the late tenth century.

  8. List of Christ myth theory proponents - Wikipedia

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    Albert Kalthoff (1850–1906) – German Protestant theologian. [18]Shūsui Kōtoku (1871–1911) – Japanese socialist and anarchist. [31]Sergey Kovalev (1886–1960) – Russian scholar of classical antiquity.

  9. Los Angeles Central Library - Wikipedia

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    For example, while the normal reading rooms had ceilings of anywhere from 10 to 15 feet (3.0 to 4.6 m), the internal stack areas were many shelves of about six-foot (1.8 m) height, stacked internally, so that while the public access area was about two floors plus the Science and Technology alcove, the internal stacks were approximately five or ...