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  2. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The term "second" comes from "the second minute division of an hour", as it is 1 ⁄ 60 of a minute, or 1 ⁄ 60 of 1 ⁄ 60 of an hour. While usually sub-second units are represented with SI prefixes on the second (e.g. milliseconds ), this system can be extrapolated further, such that a "Third" would mean 1 ⁄ 60 of a second (16.7 ...

  3. Basis point - Wikipedia

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    100 bp = 100‱, 10‰, 1%, 10 −2, ⁠ 1 / 100 ⁠, or 0.01. Basis points are used as a convenient unit of measurement in contexts where percentage differences of less than 1% are discussed. The most common example is interest rates, where differences in interest rates of less than 1% per year are usually meaningful to talk about. For example ...

  4. Angle - Wikipedia

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    A mixed format with decimal fractions is sometimes used, e.g., 3° 5.72′ = 3 + ⁠ 5.72 / 60 ⁠ degrees. A nautical mile was historically defined as an arcminute along a great circle of the Earth. (n = 21,600). arcsecond: 1,296,000: 0°0′1″ The second of arc (or arcsecond, or just second) is ⁠ 1 / 60 ⁠ of a minute of arc and ⁠ 1 / ...

  5. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    Inverting this process allows square roots to be found, and similarly for the powers 3, 1/3, 2/3, and 3/2. Care must be taken when the base, x, is found in more than one place on its scale. For instance, there are two nines on the A scale; to find the square root of nine, use the first one; the second one gives the square root of 90.

  6. Franklin Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Township is a township in central Hunterdon County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 3,267, [8] an increase of 72 (+2.3%) from the 2010 census count of 3,195, [17] [18] which in turn reflected an increase of 205 (+6.9%) from the 2,990 counted in the 2000 census. [19]

  7. Richmond, California - Wikipedia

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    There were 39,328 housing units at an average density of 749.4 units per square mile (289.3 units/km 2), of which 36,093 were occupied, of which 18,659 (51.7%) were owner-occupied, and 17,434 (48.3%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.5%; the rental vacancy rate was 8.1%. 52,683 people (50.8% of the population) lived in ...

  8. Economic history of Japan - Wikipedia

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    In Japanese history, the Jōmon period (縄文 時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time between c. 14,000 and 300 BCE, [1] [2] [3] during which Japan was inhabited by a diverse hunter-gatherer and early agriculturalist population united through a common Jōmon culture, which reached a considerable degree of sedentism and cultural complexity. [4]

  9. Milpitas, California - Wikipedia

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    There were 19,806 dwelling units at an average density of 1,452.0 per square mile (560.6/km 2), of which 12,825 (66.9%) were owner-occupied, and 6,359 (33.1%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 1.2%; the rental vacancy rate was 3.1%. 42,501 people (63.6% of the population) lived in owner-occupied dwelling units and 21,591 ...