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  2. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonians also possessed a place-value system and used a sexagesimal numeral system which is still in use today for measuring angles and time. [76] In the 6th century BC, Greek mathematics began to emerge as a distinct discipline and some Ancient Greeks such as the Pythagoreans appeared to have considered it a subject in its own right. [77]

  3. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

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    Another similar variation, called QuadLife, involves four different on states. When a new cell is born from three different on neighbours, it takes the fourth value, and otherwise, like Immigration, it takes the majority value. [66] Except for the variation among on cells, both of these variations act identically to the Game of Life.

  4. Milankovitch cycles - Wikipedia

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    This three-dimensional movement is known as "precession of the ecliptic" or "planetary precession". Earth's current inclination relative to the invariable plane (the plane that represents the angular momentum of the Solar System—approximately the orbital plane of Jupiter) is 1.57°. [citation needed] Milankovitch did not study planetary ...

  5. Laser - Wikipedia

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    A telescope in the Very Large Telescope system producing four orange laser guide stars. A laser is a device that emits light through a process of optical amplification based on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation. The word laser is an anacronym that originated as an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of ...

  6. CHIPS and Science Act - Wikipedia

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    The CHIPS and Science Act is a U.S. federal statute enacted by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on August 9, 2022. The act authorizes roughly $280 billion in new funding to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the United States, for which it appropriates $52.7 billion.

  7. Microprocessor - Wikipedia

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    The first use of the term "microprocessor" is attributed to Viatron Computer Systems [18] describing the custom integrated circuit used in their System 21 small computer system announced in 1968. Since the early 1970s, the increase in capacity of microprocessors has followed Moore's law ; this originally suggested that the number of components ...

  8. Central processing unit - Wikipedia

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    For example, even though the IBM System/360 instruction set architecture was a 32-bit instruction set, the System/360 Model 30 and Model 40 had 8-bit data paths in the arithmetic logical unit, so that a 32-bit add required four cycles, one for each 8 bits of the operands, and, even though the Motorola 68000 series instruction set was a 32-bit ...

  9. International Space Station - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 November 2024. Inhabited space station in low Earth orbit (1998–present) "ISS" redirects here. For other uses, see ISS (disambiguation). International Space Station (ISS) Oblique underside view in November 2021 International Space Station programme emblem with flags of the original signatory states ...