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2. Quinary - Wikipedia

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   Quinary (base 5 or pental [1] [2] [3]) is a numeral system with five as the base.A possible origination of a quinary system is that there are five digits on either hand.. In the quinary place system, five numerals, from 0 to 4, are used to represent any real number.

3. dc (computer program) - Wikipedia

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   dc (desk calculator) is a cross-platform reverse-Polish calculator which supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic. [1] It was written by Lorinda Cherry and Robert Morris at Bell Labs. [2] It is one of the oldest Unix utilities, preceding even the invention of the C programming language. Like other utilities of that vintage, it has a powerful set ...

4. Computer - Wikipedia

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   A human computer, with microscope and calculator, 1952. It was not until the mid-20th century that the word acquired its modern definition; according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of the word computer was in a different sense, in a 1613 book called The Yong Mans Gleanings by the English writer Richard Brathwait: "I haue [] read the truest computer of Times, and the best ...

5. Toto (lottery) - Wikipedia

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   The computer randomly selects 6 numbers from 1 to 49 for the buyer. No bet slip is required for QuickPick bets. Ordinary Bet The buyer selects 6 numbers from 1 to 49 by marking them on a bet slip. System Bet The buyer selects 7 to 12 numbers from 1 to 49 by marking on a bet slip. For example, a System 9 bet is a selection of 9 numbers. System Roll

6. List of built-in macOS apps - Wikipedia

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   Migration Assistant is a utility by Apple Inc. that transfers data, user accounts, computer settings and apps from one Macintosh computer to another computer, or from a full drive backup. As of OS X Lion and later, it can also migrate contacts, calendars, and email accounts and other files from Microsoft Windows . [ 64 ]

7. Long and short scales - Wikipedia

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   For powers of ten less than 9 (one, ten, hundred, thousand and million) the short and long scales are identical, but for larger powers of ten, the two systems differ in confusing ways. For identical names, the long scale grows by multiples of one million (10 6), whereas the short scale grows by multiples of one thousand (10 3).

8. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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   Made use of a desk calculator [24] 620: 1947 Ivan Niven: Gave a very elementary proof that π is irrational: January 1947 D. F. Ferguson: Made use of a desk calculator [24] 710: September 1947 D. F. Ferguson: Made use of a desk calculator [24] 808: 1949 Levi B. Smith and John Wrench: Made use of a desk calculator 1,120

9. 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.