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  2. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Alternatives to standard letter grading are able to evaluate the students skills and understanding of the course material. [27] The flaws in the standard letter grading system are major and require a lot of attention. These issues include ways for students to achieve high grades without actually understanding the course material.

  3. Standard Oil - Wikipedia

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    Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.

  4. Standard error - Wikipedia

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  5. 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.

  6. Standard of Ur - Wikipedia

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    The Standard of Ur is a Sumerian artifact of the 3rd millennium BCE that is now in the collection of the British Museum. It comprises a hollow wooden box measuring 21.59 cm (8.50 in) wide by 49.53 cm (19.50 in) long, inlaid with a mosaic of shell, red limestone, and lapis lazuli .

  7. Standard gravity - Wikipedia

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    The standard acceleration of gravity or standard acceleration of free fall, often called simply standard gravity and denoted by ɡ 0 or ɡ n, is the nominal gravitational acceleration of an object in a vacuum near the surface of the Earth. It is a constant defined by standard as 9.806 65 m/s 2 (about 32.174 05 ft/s 2).

  8. Standard normal table - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a standard normal table, also called the unit normal table or Z table, [1] is a mathematical table for the values of ...

  9. OSI model - Wikipedia

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    The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a reference model from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) that "provides a common basis for the coordination of standards development for the purpose of systems interconnection."