of a fixed base. Numbers of this form are called floating-point numbers.: 3 : 10 For example, 12.345 is a floating-point number in base ten with five...
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A point mutation is a genetic mutation where a single nucleotide base is changed, inserted or deleted from a DNA or RNA sequence of an organism's genome...
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Femtocell (redirect from Access point base station)
In telecommunications, a femtocell is a small, low-power cellular base station, typically designed for use in a home or small business. A broader term...
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Guantanamo Bay Naval Base (Spanish: Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO...
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Torsades de pointes, torsade de pointes or torsades des pointes (TdP; also called torsades) (/tɔːrˌsɑːd də ˈpwæ̃t/, French: [tɔʁsad də pwɛ̃t̪], translated...
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point may refer to: IBM hexadecimal floating point in the IBM System 360 and 370 series of computers and others since 1964 Hexadecimal floating-point...
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floating-point (DFP) arithmetic refers to both a representation and operations on decimal floating-point numbers. Working directly with decimal (base-10) fractions...
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Punta de Tarifa or Punta Marroquí (Tarifa Point or Moroccan Point) is the southernmost point of the Iberian Peninsula and Continental Europe. It is located...
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Sangley Point was used as a coal station for refueling ships. At the Naval Base Cavite, a repair shipyard, that Spain had called Astillero de Rivera (Rivera...
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Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB (IATA: DOV, ICAO: KDOV, FAA LID: DOV) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Air Mobility...
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Punta da Estaca de Bares is the northernmost point of Spain and the Iberian Peninsula, at a latitude of 43° 47′ 38″ North. It is located in Galicia. Conventionally...
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Basic ecclesial community (redirect from Comunidades Eclesiais de Base)
name basic ecclesial communities (BECs; also base communities; Spanish: comunidades eclesiales de base). These are small groups, originating in the Catholic...
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BASE jumping (/beɪs/) is the recreational sport of jumping from fixed objects, using a parachute to descend to the ground. BASE is an acronym that stands...
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Base de datos is a collaborative online encyclopedia written in the Spanish language launched on 8 December 2002, currently has more than 14,500 articles...
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Duodecimal (redirect from Base 12)
The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base. In duodecimal, the number twelve is...
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French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ...
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Point Loma (Spanish: Punta de la Loma, meaning "Hill Point"; Kumeyaay: Amat Kunyily, meaning "Black Earth") is a seaside community in San Diego, California...
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triangles in the plane of orbit whose common base is the line between the centers of the two masses, such that the point lies 60° ahead of (L4) or behind (L5)...
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melting point (or, rarely, liquefaction point) of a substance is the temperature at which it changes state from solid to liquid. At the melting point the...
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Point Pelee National Park (/ˈpiːliː/; French: Parc national de la Pointe-Pelée) is a national park in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada where...
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for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station". ITV News. 28 June 2019. Archived from the original on 1 July 2019. Retrieved 3 July 2019. "Base completed for...
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Gabriel de Castilla Base is a Spanish research station located on Deception Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The station was constructed in...
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Poverty Point State Historic Site/Poverty Point National Monument (French: Pointe de Pauvreté; 16 WC 5) is a prehistoric earthwork constructed by the Poverty...
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Third Point is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Daniel S. Loeb in 1995. The firm operates as an employee-owned and SEC-registered investment advisor...
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stoichiometric equivalence point. At this point, the moles of acid and base are equal, resulting in a neutral solution: acid + base → salt + water For example:...
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List of numeral systems (redirect from Base 13)
different numeral systems, that is, writing systems for expressing numbers. "A base is a natural number B whose powers (B multiplied by itself some number of...
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Commons has media related to Cedar Point. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Cedar Point. Official website Cedar Point at the Roller Coaster DataBase...
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Hexadecimal (redirect from Base 16)
Hexadecimal (also known as base-16 or simply hex) is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen. Unlike the decimal...
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Quaternary numeral system (redirect from Base 4)
floating-point systems and used gain steps of 12 dB. [...] (256 pages) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Quaternary numeral system. Quaternary Base Conversion...
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The Gotthard Base Tunnel (GBT; German: Gotthard-Basistunnel, Italian: Galleria di base del San Gottardo, Romansh: Tunnel da basa dal Sogn Gottard) is...
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