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1 dzień temu · History. Procedures for finding square roots (particularly the square root of 2) have been known since at least the period of ancient Babylon in the 17th century BCE. Babylonian mathematicians calculated the square root of 2 to three sexagesimal "digits" after the 1, but it is not known exactly how. They knew how to approximate a hypotenuse using + + (giving for example / + / for the diagonal ...
3 godz. temu · Etymology The English word sun developed from Old English sunne. Cognates appear in other Germanic languages, including West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, Standard German Sonne, Bavarian Sunna, Old Norse sunna, and Gothic sunnō. All these words stem from Proto-Germanic * sunnōn. This is ultimately related to the word for sun in other branches of the Indo-European language ...
1 dzień temu · A car was stolen roughly every eight minutes in the UK last year, according to DVLA figures. Some 64,087 vehicles were reported stolen - an increase of 5% on the previous year. While car thefts ...
1 dzień temu · Chicago O'Hare International Airport (IATA: ORD, ICAO: KORD, FAA LID: ORD) is a major international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately 17 miles (27 km) northwest of the Loop business district. Operated by the Chicago Department of Aviation and covering 7,627 acres (3,087 ha), O'Hare has non-stop flights to 214 destinations in ...
1 dzień temu · The diplomatic system of East Asia was hierarchical, lacking in equality. The Ming and Qing viewed all its diplomatic relationships as emperor-vassal relationships. Despite being a vassal of the Son of Heaven, Joseon Korea enjoyed a high level of independence and sovereignty in domestic and foreign affairs. However, the Qing dynasty was directly involved in the affairs of Joseon from the Imo ...
1 dzień temu · STV ballot papers from the 2011 Irish general election. The single transferable vote (STV), sometimes known as proportional ranked choice voting (P-RCV), is a multi-winner electoral system in which each voter casts a single vote in the form of a ranked-choice ballot.Voters have the option to rank candidates, and their vote may be transferred according to alternate preferences if their ...
1 dzień temu · A number also fought on the German side. ... the GDP in 2008 will be almost double its value in 1995 (in constant prices). Since 2003, annual inflation rates varied, reaching almost 40% in 2010 and less than 20% in 2019. ... President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a law in March 2020 that demands a national census take place at least every 10 years.
