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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    This is a unit of fame or hype, derived from the dictum attributed to Andy Warhol that "everyone will be world-famous for fifteen minutes". It represents fifteen minutes of fame. Some multiples are: 1 kilowarhol – famous for 15,000 minutes, or 10.42 days. A sort of metric "nine-day wonder".

  3. Gallon - Wikipedia

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    The corn or dry gallon is used (along with the dry quart and pint) in the United States for grain and other dry commodities. It is one-eighth of the (Winchester) bushel, originally defined as a cylindrical measure of ⁠18 1 2 ⁠ inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth, which made the bushel 8 in × (⁠9 1 4 ⁠ in)2 × π ≈ 2150.42017 ...

  4. M48 Patton - Wikipedia

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    The M48 Patton is an American first-generation main battle tank (MBT) introduced in February 1952, being designated as the 90mm Gun Tank: M48.It was designed as a replacement for the M26 Pershing, M4 Sherman, M46 and M47 Patton tanks, and was the main battle tank of the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps in the Vietnam War.

  5. List of time capsules - Wikipedia

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    [8] [9] Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar containing the history of Indian state of Gujarat marking the 50 years of its foundation. Installed in 2010. [10] [11] Alexandra Girls' English Institution, a school in Fort, South Mumbai buried a time capsule in 2014, scheduling it to be opened on 1 September 2062, on the bi-centennial anniversary of the ...

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.

  7. Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent - Wikipedia

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    For Monroney fuel economy the equation is. where. is expressed as miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (as shown in the Monroney label) E G = {\displaystyle E_ {G}=} energy content per gallon of gasoline = 115,000 Btu /gallon, as set by U.S. DoE and reported by the Alternative Fuel Data Center.

  8. List of numbers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    A list of articles about numbers (not about numerals). Topics include powers of ten, notable integers, prime and cardinal numbers, and the myriad system.

  9. 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 ...