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  2. Time signature - Wikipedia

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    Most time signatures consist of two numerals, one stacked above the other: The lower numeral indicates the note value that the signature is counting. This number is always a power of 2 (unless the time signature is irrational), usually 2, 4 or 8, but less often 16 is also used, usually in Baroque music. 2 corresponds to the half note (minim), 4 to the quarter note (crotchet), 8 to the eighth ...

  3. Doubling time - Wikipedia

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    The doubling time is a characteristic unit (a natural unit of scale) for the exponential growth equation, and its converse for exponential decay is the half-life. As an example, Canada's net population growth was 2.7 percent in the year 2022, dividing 72 by 2.7 gives an approximate doubling time of about 27 years.

  4. Stepped reckoner - Wikipedia

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    The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when he presented a wooden model to the Royal Society of London [2] and completed in 1694). [1] The name comes from the translation of the German term for its operating mechanism, Staffelwalze ...

  5. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    An expression like 1/2x is interpreted as 1/(2x) by TI-82, [3] as well as many modern Casio calculators [36] (configurable on some like the fx-9750GIII), but as (1/2)x by TI-83 and every other TI calculator released since 1996, [37] [3] as well as by all Hewlett-Packard calculators with algebraic notation.

  6. Modular arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Adding 4 hours to 9 o'clock gives 1 o'clock, since 13 is congruent to 1 modulo 12. In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones ...

  7. Divisibility rule - Wikipedia

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    Using the example above: 16,499,205,854,376 has four of the digits 1, 4 and 7 and four of the digits 2, 5 and 8; Since 44 = 0 is a multiple of 3, the number 16,499,205,854,376 is divisible by 3. Subtracting 2 times the last digit from the rest gives a multiple of 3. (Works because 21 is divisible by 3) 405: 40 - 5 x 2 = 40 - 10 = 30 = 3 x 10 4

  8. Calculator - Wikipedia

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    The first American-made pocket-sized calculator, the Bowmar 901B (popularly termed The Bowmar Brain), measuring 5.2 by 3.0 by 1.5 inches (132 mm × 76 mm × 38 mm), came out in the Autumn of 1971, with four functions and an eight-digit red LED display, for US$240, while in August 1972 the four-function Sinclair Executive became the first ...

  9. Multiplication sign - Wikipedia

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    The multiplication sign (×), also known as the times sign or the dimension sign, is a mathematical symbol used to denote the operation of multiplication, which results in a product. [ 1 ] The symbol is also used in botany , in botanical hybrid names and the heavy goods vehicle industry, to calculate the amount of powered wheels.