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  • 71Price index — A price index (plural: “price indices” or “price indexes”) is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of prices for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time. It is a statistic designed to… …

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  • 72Frank Stephen Baldwin — Infobox Scientist name = Frank Stephen Baldwin box width = image width =150px caption = Frank Stephen Baldwin birth date = April 10, 1838 birth place = New Hartford, Connecticut death date = April 8, 1925 death place = Morristown, New Jersey… …

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  • 73Difference engine — For the novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, see The Difference Engine. The London Science Museum s difference engine, built from Babbage s design. The design has the same precision on all columns, but when calculating converging… …

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  • 74Exponentiation by squaring — Exponentiating by squaring is an algorithm used for the fast computation of large integer powers of a number. It is also known as the square and multiply algorithm or binary exponentiation. In additive groups the appropriate name is double and… …

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  • 75Robert J. Sawyer — Infobox Writer name=Robert J. Sawyer birthdate = Birth date and age|1960|4|29|mf=y birthplace = Ottawa, Ontario occupation = novelist nationality = flagicon|Canada Canadian genre = science fiction, mystery debut works = Golden Fleece website =… …

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  • 76Mesoamerican Long Count calendar — Long Count redirects here. For the 1927 boxing match, see The Long Count Fight. Detail showing three columns of glyphs from a portion of the 2nd century CE La Mojarra Stela 1. The left column gives a Long Count date of 8.5.16.9.7, or 156 CE. The… …

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  • 77Mechanical calculator — An old Russian mechanical calculator. A mechanical calculator is a device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic. Mechanical calculators are comparable in size to small desktop computers and have been rendered obsolete by the advent… …

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  • 78Adam Ries — Infobox Scientist name = Adam Ries box width = image width = caption = Adam Ries in his 58th year of age, his only contemporary portrait birth date = 1492 birth place = Staffelstein death date = March 30, 1559 death place = Annaberg residence =… …

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  • 79Clutter (radar) — Clutter is a term used for unwanted echoes in electronic systems, particularly in reference to radars. Such echoes are typically returned from ground, sea, rain, animals/insects, chaff and atmospheric turbulences, and can cause serious… …

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  • 80Timeline of computing hardware 2400 BC–1949 — History of computing Hardware before 1960 Hardware 1960s to present Hardware in Soviet Bloc countries Artificial intelligence Computer science Operating systems Programming languages …

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