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Ir, Infrared Radiation:
Oceanography Dictionary - Ir, Infrared Radiation
Definition and meaning of IR, infrared radiation:
IR (infrared) radiation - earth-emitted radiation over thermal wav...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia - Calculator
A calculator is a device for performing numerical calculations. The type is considered distinct from both a calculating machine and a com...
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Light: Encyclopedia - Light
Light is electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength that is visible to the eye (visible light) or, in a technical or scientific context,...
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Aim-9 Sidewinder: Encyclopedia - Aim-9 Sidewinder
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft. It is named after the Sidewinder sna...
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Ultraviolet: Encyclopedia - Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet (UV) radiation is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength shorter than that of the visible region, but longer than that of ...
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Webcam: Encyclopedia - Webcam
A web camera (or webcam) is a real time camera whose images can be accessed using the World Wide Web, instant messaging, or a PC video ca...
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Anti-reflective Coating: Encyclopedia - Anti-reflective Coating
Anti-reflective or antireflection (AR) coatings are a type of optical coating applied to lenses and other devices to reduce reflection fr...
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Chemistry Resources: Encyclopedia - Chemistry Resources
Chemistry resources is a collection of links and references that are useful for chemistry-related work. This includes free online chemic...
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Bolo Self-aware Tank: Encyclopedia - Bolo Self-aware Tank
Bolos are a fictional type of artificially intelligent war machine. They were first imagined by Keith Laumer, and have been featured in s...
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Pioneer Venus Project: Encyclopedia Ii - Pioneer Venus Project - Pioneer Venus Orbiter
The Pioneer Venus Orbiter was inserted into an elliptical orbit around Venus on December 4, 1978. The Orbiter was a flat cylinder 2.5 m i...
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Inertial Confinement Fusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Inertial Confinement Fusion - Basic Fusion
Fusion reactions combine lightweight atoms, such as hydrogen, together to form larger ones. Generally the reactions take place at such hi...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - The Rcx Programmable Brick
The RCX is the most powerful programmable brick in the Mindstorms line. It contains a Renesas H8/300 microcontroller as its internal CPU....
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T-80: Encyclopedia Ii - T-80 - Production History
The T-80 has been confused by some Western analysts with the Soviet T-72, to the point that some analysts wonder why the Soviets "chose t...
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Iso 3166-2: Encyclopedia Ii - Iso 3166-2 - Format Matrix With Links To Codes
Some of the codes are developed by ISO 3166/MA, these are copyrighted. Others are already in use in the specific countries.
Partially fr...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - History
Calculator - Origin: The Abacus.
Main article: Abacus
The first calculators were abacuses, and were often constructed as a wooden fra...
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Sukhoi Su-30: Encyclopedia Ii - Sukhoi Su-30 - Su-30 Mki
The Sukhoi variant has significant upgrades on it from the basic Sukhoi Su-30MK version (fourth generation fighter aircraft). Improvement...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - History
Calculator - Origin: The Abacus.
Main articles: Abacus, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]]
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - History—1990s
Teletext - North America.
The NABTS protocol received a revival of sorts in the late 90s, when it was used for the datacasting features...
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Ultraviolet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultraviolet - Uses
UV light has many various uses.
Ultraviolet - Black lights.
A black light is a lamp that emits long wave UV radiation and very little v...
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Windows Xp Media Center Edition: Encyclopedia Ii - Windows Xp Media Center Edition - Hardware Requirements
Media Center has higher hardware requirements than other versions of Windows XP. MCE 2005 requires at least a 1.6 GHz (or equivalent) pro...
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Winchester And Western Railroad: Encyclopedia Ii - Winchester And Western Railroad - History
Winchester and Western Railroad - Origins of the W&W.
The Winchester and Western was initially incorporated on August 16, 1916 for ...
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Near Shoemaker: Encyclopedia Ii - Near Shoemaker - Mission Profile
NEAR Shoemaker - Summary.
The primary goal of the mission was to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros from orbit for approximately on...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Theories About Light
Light - Early Greek ideas.
In 55 BC Lucretius, continuing the ideas of earlier atomists, wrote that light and heat from the Sun were co...
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Graphing Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Graphing Calculator - History
The Japanese company Casio introduced graphing calculators with its fx-7000G in 1985.
After Casio, Hewlett Packard followed shortly in th...
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Appanoose County Community Railroad: Encyclopedia Ii - Appanoose County Community Railroad - History
The railroad track from Centerville, Iowa to Albia, Iowa was once owned by the Wabash Railroad. Later it became part of the Norfolk &...
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Iata Airline Designator: Encyclopedia Ii - Iata Airline Designator - List Of Designators
Airlines are listed by two-letter designator with nationality in parentheses. When adding entries, please make sure that a redirect is in...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Isdb-t
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - History.
HDTV was invented at NHK STRL. The research of HDTV started as early as in the 1960...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - The Rcx Programmable Brick
The RCX is the most powerful programmable brick in the Mindstorms line. It contains a Renesas H8/300 microcontroller as its internal CPU....
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T-72: Encyclopedia Ii - T-72 - Design Characteristics
The T-72 exhibits many design features shared with other tank designs of Soviet origin. Some of these are viewed as deficiencies in a str...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - History
Calculator - Origin: The Abacus.
The first calculators were abacuses, and were often constructed as a wooden frame with beads sliding o...
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Bolo Self-aware Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Bolo Self-aware Tank - Description And History
Bolos are tracked armoured vehicles similar to the tanks of 20th century Earth, but differ in that they are much larger, far more powerfu...
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Ultraviolet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultraviolet - Uses
UV light has many various uses.
Ultraviolet - Black lights.
A black light is the name commonly given to a lamp emitting almost entirely...
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Chemistry Resources: Encyclopedia Ii - Chemistry Resources - Free Online Resources
Chemistry resources - Databases.
Chemical catalog Compounds, analytical data
Chmoogle The free chemistry search engine
PubChem Compou...
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Aim-9 Sidewinder: Encyclopedia Ii - Aim-9 Sidewinder - History
AIM-9 Sidewinder - Early development.
The Sidewinder missile was a development of the Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS), Inyokern, Cal...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - The Galileo Spacecraft
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory built the Galileo spacecraft and managed the Galileo mission for NASA. Germany supplied the propulsion modu...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Theories About Light
Light - Early Greek ideas.
In 55 BC Lucretius, continuing the ideas of earlier atomists, wrote that light and heat from the Sun were co...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Table Of Terrestrial Hdtv Transmission Systems
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See also:Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting, Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Introduction, Integrated Services D...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Standards
ARIB and JCTEA developed the following standards. Some part of standards are located on the pages of ITU-R and ITU-T.
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Sate...
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Ultraviolet: Encyclopedia Ii - Ultraviolet - Health Concerns And Protection
In humans, prolonged exposure to solar UV radiation may result in acute and chronic health effects on the skin, eye, and immune system [1...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Introduction
ISDB is maintained by ARIB. The standards can be obtained for free at the DiBEG website and at ARIB.
The core standards of ISDB are ISDB-...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Receiver
There are two types of ISDB receiver: TV and STB (Set top box). The aspect ratio of ISDB television is 16:9; televisions fulfilling these...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Problems
Though ISDB is an feature-rich system, many problems have surfaced recently.
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Copy Protection ...
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Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting: Encyclopedia Ii - Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - Isdb-s
Integrated Services Digital Broadcasting - History.
Japan started digital broadcasting using the DVB-S standard by PerfecTV in October/...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Visible Electromagnetic Radiation
Visible light is the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum between the frequencies of 380 THz (3.8×1014 hertz) and 750 ...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - Sensors
The RCX relies on sensors to interpret its environment. The Lego Mindstorms line has 4 different sensors -
Touch Sensor - A small sensor...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Color And Wavelengths
The different wavelengths are detected by the human eye and then interpreted by the brain as colors, ranging from red at the longest wave...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - Other Teletext-related Services
Various other kinds of information are sent over the Teletext protocol. For instance, Programme Delivery Control signals—used by video ...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - History—1970s
Teletext - Development of Teletext.
In about 1970 the BBC had a brainstorming session in which it was decided to start researching ways...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - History—1980s
Teletext - North America.
Teletext was first demonstrated in the USA in 1978 by American television network CBS, which decided to try b...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Refraction
All light propagates at a finite speed. Even moving observers always measure the same value of c, the speed of light in vacuum, as c = 29...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Measurement Of Light
The following quantities and units are used to measure the quantity or "brightness" of light.
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Near Shoemaker: Encyclopedia Ii - Near Shoemaker - Spacecraft And Subsystems
The spacecraft has the shape of an octagonal prism, approximately 1.7 m on a side, with four fixed gallium arsenide solar panels in a win...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Speed Of Light
Although some people speak of the "velocity of light", the word velocity should be reserved for vector quantities, that is, those with bo...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - Available Programming Languages
Lego supplied (both of them graphical):
RCX Code (included in the Mindstorms consumer version sold at toystores)
ROBOLAB (based on LabVI...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - Electronic Programme Guides Based On Teletext
Standard Electronic Programme Guides, like NexTView, are based on teletext, using a compact binary format instead of preformatted text pa...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - Level 2.5 Teletext
Because teletext looks a bit outdated with its 80s-style graphics, a new standard found its way to the European market around 2000: Level...
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Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Light - Light Sources
There are many sources of light. The most common light sources are thermal: a body at a given temperature emits a characteristic spectrum...
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Teletext: Encyclopedia Ii - Teletext - Description
In the case of the Ceefax and Oracle systems and their successors in the UK, the teletext signal is transmitted as part of the ordinary a...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Electronic Calculators
In the past, some calculators were as large as today's computers. The first mechanical calculators were mechanical desktop devices, which...
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Inertial Confinement Fusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Inertial Confinement Fusion - Inertial Fusion Energy
Practical power plants built using ICF are now a serious area of study, known as inertial fusion energy, or IFE. IFE plants would deliver...
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Inertial Confinement Fusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Inertial Confinement Fusion - Brief History
ICF experiments started in earnest in the mid-1970s, when lasers of the required power were first designed. This was long after the succe...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - Galileo's Atmospheric Entry Probe
The 339 kilogram atmospheric probe measured about 1.3 meters across. Inside the heat shield, the scientific instruments were protected fr...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - Sensors
The RCX relies on sensors to interpret its environment. The Lego Mindstorms line has 4 different sensors -
Touch Sensor - A small sensor...
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Lego Mindstorms: Encyclopedia Ii - Lego Mindstorms - Available Programming Languages
Lego supplied (both of them graphical):
RCX Code (included in the Mindstorms consumer version sold at toystores)
ROBOLAB (based on LabVI...
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Inertial Confinement Fusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Inertial Confinement Fusion - Issues With The Successful Achievement Of Icf
The primary problems with increasing ICF performance since the early experiments in the 1970s have been of energy delivery to the target ...
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Inertial Confinement Fusion: Encyclopedia Ii - Inertial Confinement Fusion - Icf Design
The use of a nuclear bomb to ignite a fusion reaction makes the concept less than useful as a power source. Not only would the bombs be p...
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Graphing Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Graphing Calculator - Graphing Calculators In Schools
Because of their large set of features and ease of use, graphing calculators are very commonly used in schools. Many vendors, especially ...
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Iso 3166-2: Encyclopedia Ii - Iso 3166-2 - Decoding / Encoding Lists
To find the ISO 3166-2 codes for each country see ISO 3166-1, a list of countries. If you are familiar with the two-letter country codes ...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - Other Science Done With Galileo
Galileo spacecraft - The Galileo Star Scanner.
The star scanner was a small optical telescope used to provide the spacecraft with an ab...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - Science Performed By The Galileo Orbiter At Jupiter
After arriving on December 7, 1995 and completing 35 orbits around Jupiter throughout a nearly eight year mission, the Galileo Orbiter wa...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - Mission Overview
Galileo's launch had been significantly delayed by the hiatus in Space Shuttle launches that occurred after the Space Shuttle Challenger ...
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Bolo Self-aware Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Bolo Self-aware Tank - Artificial Intelligence
Each Bolo contains several computer "cores" with different functions, each of which contains multiple fully functional duplicates in case...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Overview
In the near past, mechanical and clerical aids such as abacuses, comptometers, Napier's bones, books of mathematical tables, slide rules,...
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Appanoose County Community Railroad: Encyclopedia Ii - Appanoose County Community Railroad - Other Railroads In The Area
There are other railroads that the APNC passes over or travels by. The Iowa, Chicago & Eastern railroad passes through and crosses ov...
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Galileo Spacecraft: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Spacecraft - Spacecraft Malfunctions
Galileo spacecraft - Main antenna failure.
For reasons which are not currently known, and in all likelihood will never be known with ce...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Use In Education
In most developed countries, students use calculators for schoolwork. There was some initial resistance to the idea out of fear that basi...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Other Concerns On Useage
Errors are not restricted to school pupils. Any user could carelessly rely on the calculator's output without double-checking the magnitu...
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T-72: Encyclopedia Ii - T-72 - Production History
The T-72 was the most common tank used by the Red Army from the 1970s to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was also exported to other ...
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T-80: Encyclopedia Ii - T-80 - Design Traits
The T-80's disadvantages are the product of the small size of the tank (about 1/2 to 3/4 that of the M1, depending on the aspect). Despit...
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Bolo Self-aware Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Bolo Self-aware Tank - Bolo Defensive Systems
The complex armor of a Bolo Unit of the Line can withstand direct hits from all weapons systems up to (and in later models, including) nu...
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Bolo Self-aware Tank: Encyclopedia Ii - Bolo Self-aware Tank - Bolo Offensive Systems
A basic Bolo is roughly the equivalent in firepower to a division of heavy infantry with artillery support. Later Bolo models are classif...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Electronic Calculators
Today most calculators are handheld microelectronic devices, but in the past some calculators were as large as today's computers. The fir...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Overview
Modern calculators are electrically powered, most often by battery, and are made by numerous manufacturers, in countless shapes and sizes...
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Calculator: Encyclopedia Ii - Calculator - Calculators Vs. Computing
A fundamental difference between a calculator and most computers is that calculators typically operate in Binary-coded decimal rather tha...
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