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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 ...
7 godz. temu · Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to protect against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss.. An entity which provides insurance is known as an insurer, insurance company, insurance carrier, or ...
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 ...
