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  2. Standard 52-card deck - Wikipedia

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    The standard 52-card deck [citation needed] of French-suited playing cards is the most common pack of playing cards used today. [a] In English-speaking countries it is the only traditional pack [b] used for playing cards; in many countries of the world, however, it is used alongside other traditional, often older, standard packs with different ...

  3. Standard Model - Wikipedia

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    The development of the Standard Model was driven by theoretical and experimental particle physicists alike. The Standard Model is a paradigm of a quantum field theory for theorists, exhibiting a wide range of phenomena, including spontaneous symmetry breaking, anomalies, and non-perturbative behavior.

  4. International System of Units - Wikipedia

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    SI base units. The SI comprises a coherent system of units of measurement starting with seven base units, which are the second (symbol s, the unit of time ), metre (m, length ), kilogram (kg, mass ), ampere (A, electric current ), kelvin (K, thermodynamic temperature ), mole (mol, amount of substance ), and candela (cd, luminous intensity ).

  5. Standard gravity - Wikipedia

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    Standard gravity. The standard acceleration of gravity or standard acceleration of free fall, often called simply standard gravity and denoted by ɡ0 or ɡn, 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 ).

  6. Gold standard - Wikipedia

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    The gold standard was the basis for the international monetary system from the 1870s to the early 1920s, and from the late 1920s to 1932 [1] [2] as well as from 1944 until 1971 when the United States unilaterally terminated convertibility of the US dollar to gold, effectively ending the Bretton Woods system. [3]

  7. Standard of Ur - Wikipedia

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

  8. The Standard, Copenhagen - Wikipedia

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    The Standard was opened by a group of investors consisting of Claus Meyer, Niels Lan Doky, Torsten Vildgaard, Søren Westh and Karam Sethi. The complex was redesigned with the assistance of GamFratesi and Christina Meyer Bengtsson & Ulrik Nordentoft. Verandah, a high-end Indian restaurant, closed in September 2016. [3]

  9. Standard error - Wikipedia

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    For correlated random variables the sample variance needs to be computed according to the Markov chain central limit theorem.. Independent and identically distributed random variables with random sample size