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  2. Binary clock - Wikipedia

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    A binary clock is a clock that displays the time of day in a binary format. Originally, such clocks showed each decimal digit of sexagesimal time as a binary value, but presently binary clocks also exist which display hours, minutes, and seconds as binary numbers. Most binary clocks are digital, although analog varieties exist.

  3. Epoch (computing) - Wikipedia

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    In computing, an epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference from which a computer measures system time.Most computer systems determine time as a number representing the seconds removed from a particular arbitrary date and time.

  4. Coins of the pound sterling - Wikipedia

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    The current decimal coins consist of: one penny and two pence in copper-plated steel. five pence and ten pence in nickel-plated steel. equilateral curve heptagonal twenty pence and fifty pence in cupronickel. bimetallic one pound and two pounds.

  5. Decimal (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Decimal (unit) A decimal (also spelled decimil [citation needed] or dismil; [1] Bengali: শতক) is a unit of area in India and Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by both countries, the unit became officially obsolete. However, it is still in use among the rural population in Northern Bangladesh and West Bengal .

  6. Time-to-digital converter - Wikipedia

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    Time-to-digital converter. In electronic instrumentation and signal processing, a time-to-digital converter ( TDC) is a device for recognizing events and providing a digital representation of the time they occurred. For example, a TDC might output the time of arrival for each incoming pulse. Some applications wish to measure the time interval ...

  7. ANSI/ASME Y14.1 - Wikipedia

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    ANSI/ASME Y14.1. In 1992, the American National Standards Institute adopted ANSI/ ASME Y14.1 Decimal Inch Drawing Sheet Size and Format, [1] which defined a regular series of paper sizes based upon the de facto standard in × 11 in "letter" size to which it assigned the designation "ANSI A". This series also includes "ledger"/"tabloid" as "ANSI B".

  8. Military Grid Reference System - Wikipedia

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    An MGRS grid reference is a point reference system. When the term 'grid square' is used, it can refer to a square with a side length of 10 km (6 mi), 1 km, 100 m (328 ft), 10 m or 1 m, depending on the precision of the coordinates provided. (In some cases, squares adjacent to a Grid Zone Junction (GZJ) are clipped, so polygon is a better ...

  9. Dot-decimal notation - Wikipedia

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    Dot-decimal notation. Dot-decimal notation is a presentation format for numerical data. It consists of a string of decimal numbers, using the full stop ( dot) as a separation character. [1] A common use of dot-decimal notation is in information technology where it is a method of writing numbers in octet -grouped base-10 ( decimal) numbers. [2]