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  2. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    He later said, "People were calling it CDC (Century Date Change), FADL (Faulty Date Logic). There were other contenders. Y2K just came off my fingertips." [12] The problem started because on both mainframe computers and later personal computers, memory was expensive, from as low as $10 per kilobyte, to more than US$100 per kilobyte in 1975.

  3. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Metrication in the United States. A shampoo label from the U.S. that shows a round metric quantity taking secondary status in parentheses next to non-integer U.S. customary quantity. Metrication (or metrification) is the process of introducing the International System of Units, also known as SI units or the metric system, to replace a ...

  4. Historical definitions of the SI base units - Wikipedia

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    The mass of one litre of water at the temperature of melting ice. A litre is one thousandth of a cubic metre. M second: s time "The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium 133 atom." 13th CGPM (1967/68, Resolution 1; CR, 103)

  5. 2019 redefinition of the SI base units - Wikipedia

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    2019 definition: The kilogram, symbol kg, is the SI unit of mass. It is defined by taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be 6.626 070 15 × 10−34 when expressed in the unit J ⋅s, which is equal to kg⋅m 2 ⋅s −1, where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ΔνCs.

  6. List of common display resolutions - Wikipedia

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    16:9. 8,294,400. 7680 × 4320. 8K UHDTV. 4320p. 33,177,600. Many of these resolutions are also used for video files that are not broadcast. These may also use other aspect ratios by cropping otherwise black bars at the top and bottom which result from cinema aspect ratios greater than 16∶9, such as 1.85 or 2.35 through 2.40 (dubbed ...

  7. Unit of measurement - Wikipedia

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    A unit of measurement, or unit of measure, is a definite magnitude of a quantity, defined and adopted by convention or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same kind of quantity. [ 1] Any other quantity of that kind can be expressed as a multiple of the unit of measurement. [ 2] For example, a length is a physical quantity.

  8. Groupon Was "The Single Worst Decision I Have Ever Made As A ...

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    Her average sale was $5 and her Groupon rep had convinced her to run a Groupon for $13. I already knew how the story ended. Jessie had posted about her experience running a Groupon for Posies Cafe ...

  9. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    An order of magnitude of time is usually a decimal prefix or decimal order-of-magnitude quantity together with a base unit of time, like a microsecond or a million years. In some cases, the order of magnitude may be implied (usually 1), like a "second" or "year". In other cases, the quantity name implies the base unit, like "century".