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  2. Positional notation - Wikipedia

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    This is the repeating decimal notation (to which there does not exist a single universally accepted notation or phrasing). For base 10 it is called a repeating decimal or recurring decimal. An irrational number has an infinite non-repeating representation in all integer bases.

  3. Sexagesimal - Wikipedia

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    Jamshīd al-Kāshī, a 15th-century Persian mathematician, calculated 2 π as a sexagesimal expression to its correct value when rounded to nine subdigits (thus to ⁠ 1 / 60 9 ⁠); his value for 2 π was 6;16,59,28,1,34,51,46,14,50. [29] [30] Like √ 2 above, 2 π is an irrational number and cannot be expressed exactly in sexagesimal. Its ...

  4. List of chemical elements - Wikipedia

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    A chemical element, often simply called an element, is a type of atom which has a specific number of protons in its atomic nucleus (i.e., a specific atomic number, or Z). [ 1 ] The definitive visualisation of all 118 elements is the periodic table of the elements , whose history along the principles of the periodic law was one of the founding ...

  5. Hindu–Arabic numeral system - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu–Arabic system is designed for positional notation in a decimal system. In a more developed form, positional notation also uses a decimal marker (at first a mark over the ones digit but now more commonly a decimal point or a decimal comma which separates the ones place from the tenths place), and also a symbol for "these digits recur ad infinitum".

  6. Nitrogen - Wikipedia

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    A few mixed halides and hydrohalides are known, but are mostly unstable; examples include NClF 2, NCl 2 F, NBrF 2, NF 2 H, NFH 2, NCl 2 H, and NClH 2. [ 61 ] Nitrogen trifluoride (NF 3 , first prepared in 1928) is a colourless and odourless gas that is thermodynamically stable, and most readily produced by the electrolysis of molten ammonium ...

  7. Long division - Wikipedia

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    Find the location of all decimal points in the dividend n and divisor m. If necessary, simplify the long division problem by moving the decimals of the divisor and dividend by the same number of decimal places, to the right (or to the left), so that the decimal of the divisor is to the right of the last digit.

  8. History of algebra - Wikipedia

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    Al-Kāshī also developed decimal fractions and claimed to have discovered it himself. However, J. Lennart Berggrenn notes that he was mistaken, as decimal fractions were first used five centuries before him by the Baghdadi mathematician Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi as early as the 10th century.

  9. List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

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    All microwave radiation dissipates as heat. Long-term rodent studies to assess cancer risk have so far failed to identify any carcinogenicity from 2.45 GHz microwave radiation even with chronic exposure levels (i.e. large fraction of life span) far larger than humans are likely to encounter from any leaking ovens. The risk of injury from direct ...