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The Indian system is decimal (base-10), same as in the West, and the first five orders of magnitude are named in a similar way: one (10 0), ten (10 1), one hundred (10 2), one thousand (10 3), and ten thousand (10 4). For higher powers of ten, naming diverges.
The name of the city, Graz, formerly spelled Gratz [8] and also formerly known as Grätz, most likely derives from Slavic gradec/gradac 'small castle'. Some archaeological finds point to the erection of a small castle by Alpine Slavic people, [9] who settled in the region after the barbarian invasions drove out the original Celts, as well as the Romans.
In 1930, the city was 26.7% Reformed, 22.6% Greek Catholic, 20.1% Roman Catholic, 13.4% Jewish, 11.8% Orthodox, 2.4% Lutheran and 2.1% Unitarian. [139] Contributing factors for demographic shifts were the extermination [ 140 ] and emigration [ 141 ] of the city's Jews, the outlawing of the Greek-Catholic Church (1948–89) [ 142 ] and the ...
After its integration into the Roman Empire, the city was called Divodurum Mediomatricum, meaning Holy Village or Holy Fortress of the Mediomatrici, [32] then it was known as Mediomatrix. [31] During the 5th century AD, the name evolved to "Mettis", which gave rise to the current spelling, Metz, [ 31 ] but also spellings such as Mès , which ...
There are 39 known isotopes and 17 nuclear isomers of tellurium (52 Te), with atomic masses that range from 104 to 142. These are listed in the table below. Naturally-occurring tellurium on Earth consists of eight isotopes. Two of these have been found to be radioactive: 128 Te and 130 Te undergo double beta decay with half-lives of, respectively, 2.2×10 24 (2.2 septillion) years (the longest ...
The official highest temperature recorded within the city limits is 30.0 °C (86 °F), and the lowest temperature recorded is −7.1 °C (19 °F), both at the Guaymaral Airport. [ 62 ] The rainiest months are April, May, September, October, and November, in which typical days are mostly overcast , with low clouds and some winds, bringing ...
Montreal [a] is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the ninth-largest in North America.It was founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", [19] and is now named after Mount Royal, [20] the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. [21]
Brno (/ ˈ b ɜːr n oʊ / BUR-noh, [5] Czech: ⓘ; German: Brünn) is a city in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic.Located at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers, Brno has about 400,000 inhabitants, making it the second-largest city in the Czech Republic after the capital, Prague, and one of the 100 largest cities of the European Union.