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  2. History of the metre - Wikipedia

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    An early definition of the metre was one ten-millionth of the Earth quadrant, the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, measured along a meridian through Paris.. The history of the metre starts with the Scientific Revolution that is considered to have begun with Nicolaus Copernicus's publication of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in 1543.

  3. Big Bang - Wikipedia

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    The Big Bang is a physical theory that describes how the universe expanded from an initial state of high density and temperature. [1] The notion of an expanding universe was first scientifically originated by physicist Alexander Friedmann in 1922 with the mathematical derivation of the Friedmann equations.

  4. UTF-8 - Wikipedia

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    UTF-8 is a character encoding standard used for electronic communication. Defined by the Unicode Standard, the name is derived from Unicode Transformation Format – 8-bit.

  5. Standard of living - Wikipedia

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    Standard of living is the level of income, comforts and services available to an individual, community or society.A contributing factor to an individual's quality of life, standard of living is generally concerned with objective metrics outside an individual's personal control, such as economic, societal, political, and environmental matters. [1]

  6. Internet - Wikipedia

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    Digital media streaming increases the demand for network bandwidth. For example, standard image quality needs 1 Mbit/s link speed for SD 480p, HD 720p quality requires 2.5 Mbit/s, and the top-of-the-line HDX quality needs 4.5 Mbit/s for 1080p. [92] Webcams are a low-cost extension of this phenomenon. While some webcams can give full-frame-rate ...

  7. Wi-Fi 6 - Wikipedia

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    Wi-Fi 6, or IEEE 802.11ax, is an IEEE standard from the Wi-Fi Alliance, for wireless networks ().It operates in the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands, [9] with an extended version, Wi-Fi 6E, that adds the 6 GHz band. [10]

  8. 5G - Wikipedia

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    An Android phone, showing that it is connected to a 5G network. In telecommunications, 5G is the fifth-generation technology standard for cellular networks, which cellular phone companies began deploying worldwide in 2019, and is the successor to 4G technology that provides connectivity to most current mobile phones.

  9. Standard basis - Wikipedia

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    There is a standard basis also for the ring of polynomials in n indeterminates over a field, namely the monomials.. All of the preceding are special cases of the indexed family = (()) where is any set and is the Kronecker delta, equal to zero whenever i ≠ j and equal to 1 if i = j.