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Archimedes gives the value of the square root of 3 as lying between 265 / 153 (approximately 1.7320261) and 1351 / 780 (approximately 1.7320512) in Measurement of a Circle. The actual value is approximately 1.7320508, making this a very accurate estimate. He introduced this result without offering any explanation of how he had ...
The Milky Way is approximately 890 billion to 1.54 trillion times the mass of the Sun in total (8.9 × 10 11 to 1.54 × 10 12 solar masses), [7] [8] [9] although stars and planets make up only a small part of this. Estimates of the mass of the Milky Way vary, depending upon the method and data used.
The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene.Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis (North Africa), a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia.
The overall impact of hyperinflation was that 1 novi dinar was equal to 1 × 10 27 – 1.3 × 10 27 pre-1990 dinars. Yugoslavia's rate of inflation hit 5 × 10 15 % cumulative inflation over the time period 1 October 1993 and 24 January 1994. SFR Yugoslavia: Start and end date: September 1989 – December 1989
In 2016, Thailand had 1.2 global hectares [238] of biocapacity per person within its territory, a little less than world average of 1.6 global hectares per person. [239] In contrast, in 2016, they used 2.5 global hectares of biocapacity—their ecological footprint of consumption. This means they use about twice as much biocapacity as Thailand ...
The breakdown of other religions is 1% Muslim, 2% Hindu and 2% Buddhist. [255] This is a change from 2008, when the population identified their religion with the Catholic Church with 31 percent; Evangelical Protestants with 18 percent; and Mainline Protestants with 14 percent.
It then decreased to 3.2% in 2014 and held steady for several years, before further dropping to 2.5% in 2018 and 2.3% in 2019; in 2023 it had reached a 20-year low of 2%. [166] Population growth (from net immigration) reached 0.52% of population in 2004, increased in the following years before falling to 0.54% again in 2017.