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    Jean-Charles, chevalier de Borda (4 May 1733 – 19 February 1799) was a French mathematician, physicist, and Navy officer. Borda was born in the city of...
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  • 18th-century French mathematician and naval engineer Jean-Charles de Borda, who devised the system in 1770. The Borda count is well-known in social choice theory...
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    the alternative method of aggregating preferences put forth by Jean-Charles de Borda (based on summed rankings of alternatives). Condorcet was one of...
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  • head is a constant along a streamline. The equation is named after Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799) and Lazare Carnot (1753–1823). This equation is used...
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  • footballer Deborah Borda, an American orchestra executive Itxaro Borda (born 1959), French writer in Basque language Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), a...
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    away to the south-southeast. It was named after French astronomer Jean-Charles de Borda. It has a low rim that is broken along the southeast by a smaller...
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  • travaux du chevalier Jean-Charles de Borda (1733-1799). Épisodes de la vie scientifique au XVIIIe siècle. By Mascart, Jean. Bibliothèque de la revue d'histoire...
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    surveying, invented by Etienne Lenoir in 1784, while an assistant of Jean-Charles de Borda, who later improved the instrument. It was notable as being the...
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  • Missions Society in Vietnam Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), French mathematician, physicist and political scientist Jean-Charles de Castelbajac (born 1949)...
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    (43 mi) west of the municipal seat of Kingscote. It was named after Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), the French mathematician, physicist, naturalist and...
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    are missing from the list: Joseph Liouville and Charles Hermite. not to be confused with Jules-Albert de Dion, automobile pioneer not to be confused with...
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  • Six ships of the French Navy have borne the name Borda in honour of Jean-Charles de Borda. From 1839 it has been a tradition that the main schoolship of...
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  • de Cassini, astronomer; Jean-Charles de Borda, Navy officer; Jean-Nicolas Buache, geographer; Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Navy officer; Noël Simon...
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    harboured in Brest, almost all of which were nicknamed Borda (from the name of Jean-Charles de Borda, a famous French scientist of the 18th century). The...
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    A second wave of analysis began when Jean-Charles de Borda published a paper in 1781, advocating for the Borda count, which he called the "order of merit"...
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    returned to Brest in 1855, where she was disarmed. In 1864, she was renamed Borda and became a training hulk for the French Naval Academy. Upon her replacement...
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    Kangaroo Island (redirect from Ile Borda)
    Baudin named the Island Île Borda, in honour of Jean-Charles de Borda, although the French chart published by Louis de Freycinet after Baudin's death...
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    Condorcet and Borda count methods, which were respectively reinvented in the 18th century by the Marquis de Condorcet and Jean-Charles de Borda. More serious...
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  • Spray-on-clothing by Manel Torres Borda Count - by Ramon Llull, around 1299, centuries before Jean-Charles de Borda. Condorcet criterion - by Ramon Llull...
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    enacted as part of the new Republican calendar. In January, 1791, Jean-Charles de Borda commissioned Louis Berthoud to manufacture a decimal chronometer...
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  • westward single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the world, 1971 Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), scientist and engineer working at sea William Harvey...
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    exigées par les anciennes déterminations de Borda et de Biot". Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences (in French). 90: 1463–1466...
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    standard of length for use with the new metric system, in 1792 Jean-Charles de Borda and Jean-Dominique Cassini made a precise measurement of the seconds...
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    Gradian (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    use) Harmonic analysis – Study of superpositions in mathematics Jean-Charles de Borda – French scientist and Navy officer (1733–1799) Repeating circle –...
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    (1052–1108) instituted a system of poids de marc (mark weight) used for minting coin, with 8 onces to a marc. Jean II (1319–1364) constructed a new standard...
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    and political scientist Jean-Charles de Borda formulates the ranked preferential electoral system which becomes known as the Borda count. Lagrange discusses...
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    Decimal time was officially introduced during the French Revolution. Jean-Charles de Borda made a proposal for decimal time on 5 November 1792. The National...
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    History of the metre (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Talleyrand. The French commission comprised Jean-Charles de Borda, Barnabé Brisson, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Jean Darcet, René Just Haüy, Joseph-Louis Lagrange...
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  • Danish cartographer, surveyor and traveller (died 1815) May 4 – Jean-Charles de Borda, French mathematician, physicist, political scientist, and sailor...
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    visited by early 19th century sealers. The feature is named after Jean-Charles de Borda (1733-1799), a French mathematician, physicist and Navy officer...
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