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** Loss of significance, undesirable effect in calculations using floating-point arithmetic
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** and significance
** Calculate, where the sign is chosen to give the denominator with the larger absolute value, to avoid loss of significance as iteration proceeds.
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** Planck time, the time scale beneath which quantum effects are comparable in significance to gravitational effects
** and effect
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** genetic interactions — Mendel's law of segregation — genetic mosaic — maternal effect — penetrance — complementation — suppression — epistasis — genetic linkage
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** Self-phase modulation ( SPM ), an effect due to the Optical Kerr effect ( and possibly higher order nonlinearities ) caused by the temporal variation in the intensity creating a temporal variation in the refractive index
** Optical solitons, An equilibrium solution for either an optical pulse ( temporal soliton ) or Spatial mode ( spatial soliton ) that does not change during propagation due to a balance between diffraction and the Kerr effect ( e. g. Self-phase modulation for temporal and Self-focusing for spatial solitons ).
** Nurses Registration Act 1901 comes into effect in New Zealand, making it the first country in the world to require state registration of nurses.
** The Kellogg-Briand Pact, renouncing war as an instrument of foreign policy, goes into effect ( it was first signed in Paris on August 27, 1928 by most leading world powers ).
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** and calculations
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** In Holmdel, New Jersey, scientists at Bell Labs announce they have created a digital optical processor that could lead to the development of superfast computers that use pulses of light rather than electric currents to make calculations.
# The E or Extension spec ( s ) are next, and describe arrays and tables, which may be prefetched from disk files ( an Input table ), drawn from constants placed at the end of the source between ** and /* symbols, or built from calculations.
** 3D computer graphics – graphics that use a three-dimensional representation of geometric data ( often Cartesian ) that is stored in the computer for the purposes of performing calculations and rendering 2D images.
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