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  2. Names of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    The English name Singapore comes from the Malay name Singapura which is believed to have been derived from Sanskrit meaning "Lion City". [2] [3] Singa comes from the Sanskrit word siṃha (सिंह), which means "lion", and pūra means "city" in Sanskrit and is a common suffix in many Indian place names. [4]

  3. QR code - Wikipedia

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    The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. [6] [7] [8] The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; [9] the pattern of the position detection markers was determined by finding the least-used sequence of ...

  4. PayNow - Wikipedia

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    PayNow is a near-instant real-time payment system developed by Association of Banks in Singapore. [1] The interface facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transactions. The system is supported by all major Singaporean banks and is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and works by transferring funds between ...

  5. Mobile tagging - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, there are several readers which were created to read out non-proprietary code, these 'open source codes' are the most used for Optical Reading with Mobile like the QR Code and the Data Matrix. However, a QR code is always 60% larger than a DataMatrix code and this tends to mean that DM is the primary code used in packaging ...

  6. List of national identity card policies by country - Wikipedia

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    The machine readable code contains all printed text information about the card holder (it replaces the QR Code) while both chips (the smart card chip is hidden under the golden contact pads) contain all personal information about the card holder along with a JPEG photo of the card holder, a JPEG photo with the card holder's signature, and ...

  7. QRIS - Wikipedia

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    Quick Response Code Indonesia Standard (abbreviated as QRIS, the abbreviation being a play on keris, a traditional sword; Indonesian: Kode QR Standar Indonesia) is an Indonesian QR code standard developed by Bank Indonesia (BI) and Indonesian Payment System Association for cashless payments in Indonesia.

  8. MAS Electronic Payment System - Wikipedia

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    The MAS Electronic Payment System, or MEPS in short, is an SGD-only online interbank payment and fund transfer system in Singapore. [1] It went online in July 1998, and is owned and operated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). The irrevocable transfer of funds and the real-time nature of transfers are some of the key features of MEPS.

  9. Machine-readable passport - Wikipedia

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    Meaning 1: 1: alpha: P, indicating a passport 2: 1: alpha+ < Type (for countries that distinguish between different types of passports) 3–5: 3: alpha: Issuing country or organization (ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code with modifications) 6–44: 39: alpha+ < Surname, followed by two filler characters, followed by given names. Given names are separated ...