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  2. Brinell scale - Wikipedia

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    The Brinell hardness is designated by the most commonly used test standards (ASTM E10-14 [2] and ISO 6506–1:2005) as HBW (H from hardness, B from brinell and W from the material of the indenter, tungsten (wolfram) carbide). In former standards HB or HBS were used to refer to measurements made with steel indenters.

  3. Pennsylvania Railroad class J1 - Wikipedia

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    Pennsylvania Railroad class J1. Water cap. 124 scrapped, 6435 rumored to still extant but not confirmed. The PRR J1 was a class of 2-10-4 "Texas" type steam locomotives built between 1942 and 1944. The J1 had over 95,000 pounds-force (422.6 kN) of tractive effort, plus an additional 15,000 lbf (66.7 kN) if the booster engine was used.

  4. Half-precision floating-point format - Wikipedia

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    In computing, half precision (sometimes called FP16 or float16) is a binary floating-point computer number format that occupies 16 bits (two bytes in modern computers) in computer memory. It is intended for storage of floating-point values in applications where higher precision is not essential, in particular image processing and neural ...

  5. 'Lousy' housing inventory on the resale side is a boon for ...

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    Sales revenues increased 19% year over year to $2.7 billion. Demand for spec homes made up about 40% of the builder’s home orders in the quarter, and the builder expects the trend to hold ground ...

  6. Duodecimal - Wikipedia

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    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 denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten.

  7. Twelfth root of two - Wikipedia

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    The twelfth root of two or (or equivalently ) is an algebraic irrational number, approximately equal to 1.0594631. It is most important in Western music theory, where it represents the frequency ratio ( musical interval) of a semitone ( Play ⓘ) in twelve-tone equal temperament. This number was proposed for the first time in relationship to ...

  8. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The diagonal displays an approximation of the square root of 2 in four sexagesimal figures, 1 24 51 10, which is good to about six decimal digits. 1 + 24/60 + 51/60 2 + 10/60 3 = 1.41421296... The tablet also gives an example where one side of the square is 30, and the resulting diagonal is 42 25 35 or 42.4263888...

  9. Hexadecimal - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen. Unlike the decimal system representing numbers using ten symbols, hexadecimal uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols "0"–"9" to represent ...