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In 2000, Microsoft released an initial version of an XML-based format for Microsoft Excel, which was incorporated in Office XP. In 2002, a new file format for Microsoft Word followed. [ 9 ] The Excel and Word formats—known as the Microsoft Office XML formats —were later incorporated into the 2003 release of Microsoft Office.
The order of magnitude of data may be specified in strictly standards-conformant units of information and multiples of the bit and byte with decimal scaling, or using historically common usages of a few multiplier prefixes in a binary interpretation which has been common in computing until new binary prefixes were defined in the 1990s..
The word "orient" is derived from Latin oriens, meaning east. In the Middle Ages many maps, including the T and O maps, were drawn with east at the top (meaning that the direction "up" on the map corresponds to East on the compass). The most common cartographic convention nowadays is that north is at the top of a map.
The expected topography of Antarctica using modern data and accounting for isostatic rebound shows no similarities with the Piri Reis map. The Antarctic claim originates with Captain Arlington H. Mallery, [100] a civil engineer and amateur archaeologist who was a supporter of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses. Mallery used a grid ...
Ludovico di Varthema, in Bk.3, on India, Chapt.27, reports that on the southern side of Java Major, to the southward, there are peoples who sail with their backs to our stars of the north until they find a day of but 4 hours, i.e. to the 63rd. degree of latitude and he refers to this as coming from the mouth of his Indian pilot.
PT XL Axiata Tbk [4] (formerly PT Excelcomindo Pratama Tbk), is an Indonesian mobile telecommunications services operator headquartered at Jakarta. [5] It is the third largest mobile telecommunications company in Indonesia.
The Hereford mappa mundi, a map of the world with Jerusalem at its centre. The Hereford Mappa Mundi (Latin: mappa mundi) is the largest medieval map still known to exist, depicting the known world.