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The numero sign or numero symbol, № (also represented as Nº, No̱, No. or no.), [1] [2] is a typographic abbreviation of the word number(s) indicating ordinal numeration, especially in names and titles. For example, using the numero sign, the written long-form of the address "Number 29 Acacia Road" is shortened to "№ 29 Acacia Rd", yet ...
The Carbolic Smoke Ball Co. made a product called the "smoke ball" and claimed it to be a cure for influenza and a number of other diseases. (The 1889–1890 pandemic ongoing at the time was estimated to have killed 1 million people, but may have been caused either by influenza or a coronavirus.)
In the petroleum industry, capillary number is denoted instead of . [4] For low capillary numbers (a rule of thumb says less than 10 −5), flow in porous media is dominated by capillary forces, [5] whereas for high capillary numbers the capillary forces are negligible compared to the viscous forces.
[61] [62] It was later reported that the suspect was a British citizen [63] born to Rwandan parents, that he had moved to the Southport area in 2013, [52] [64] and that he had no known links to Islam. [65] The spread of misinformation has widely been given as the cause of the Southport riots. [57] [66] [67] [68]
Daily NK is a recipient of funding from multiple institutions and private donors, including the National Endowment for Democracy, [4] an NGO funded by the U.S. Congress. Daily NK ' s president is Lee Kwang-baek. [5] The amount of Daily NK ' s funding from the National Endowment for Democracy since 2016 is available in the public sphere. [6]
In the case of irrational numbers, the decimal expansion does not terminate, nor end with a repeating sequence. For example, the decimal representation of π starts with 3.14159, but no finite number of digits can represent π exactly, nor does it repeat. Conversely, a decimal expansion that terminates or repeats must be a rational number.
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, and slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned against their will and denied their liberty under the authority of the state, generally as punishment for various crimes.
The first use of a national emergency telephone number began in the United Kingdom in 1937 using the number 999, which continues to this day. [6] In the United States, the first 911 service was established by the Alabama Telephone Company and the first call was made in Haleyville, Alabama, in 1968 by Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite and answered by U.S. Representative Tom Bevill.