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  2. George Laurer - Wikipedia

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    George Joseph Laurer III (September 23, 1925 – December 5, 2019) was an American engineer for IBM at Research Triangle Park in North Carolina. He published 20 bulletins, held 28 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in the early 1970s. He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland 's more general ...

  3. Universal Product Code - Wikipedia

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    A UPC barcode. The Universal Product Code (UPC or UPC code) is a barcode symbology that is used worldwide for tracking trade items in stores.. The chosen symbology has bars (or spaces) of exactly 1, 2, 3, or 4 units wide each; each decimal digit to be encoded consists of two bars and two spaces chosen to have a total width of 7 units, in both an "even" and an "odd" parity form, which enables ...

  4. Barcode - Wikipedia

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    Barcode. A UPC-A barcode. A barcode or bar code is a method of representing data in a visual, machine-readable form. Initially, barcodes represented data by varying the widths, spacings and sizes of parallel lines. These barcodes, now commonly referred to as linear or one-dimensional (1D), can be scanned by special optical scanners, called ...

  5. List of ISO 3166 country codes - Wikipedia

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    See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British) . Burma – See Myanmar . Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde . Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba . China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China) . Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea ...

  6. Canon's EOS 7D gets its very own UPC? - Engadget

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    While we'd definitely recommend taking this with a hearty throw of salt, Canon's not-yet-real EOS 7D apparently has a universal product code ready and waiting for its elusive launch date. 'Course ...

  7. Norman Joseph Woodland - Wikipedia

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    Co-inventor of the barcode. Norman Joseph Woodland (September 6, 1921 – December 9, 2012) was an American inventor and engineer, best known as one of the inventors of the barcode, for which he received a patent in October 1952. [1] [2] Later, employed by IBM, he developed the format which became the ubiquitous Universal Product Code (UPC) of ...

  8. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is structured around ten main classes covering the entire world of knowledge; each main class is further structured into ten hierarchical divisions, each having ten divisions of increasing specificity. [1] As a system of library classification the DDC is "arranged by discipline, not subject", so a topic ...

  9. List of GS1 country codes - Wikipedia

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    389. Montenegro. 390. Republic of Kosovo (EAN-imposed, no GS1 Member Organisation) [2] 400–440. Germany (440 code inherited from former East Germany upon reunification in 1990) 450–459. Japan (new Japanese Article Number range) 460–469.