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** proposes using the symbol π ( the Greek letter pi, as an abbreviation for perimeter ) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
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** President of the United States George H. W. Bush gives his first State of the Union address and proposes that the U. S. and the Soviet Union make deep cuts to their military forces in Europe.
** President of the United States John F. Kennedy proposes a long-term " Alliance for Progress " between the United States and Latin America.
** Peel Commission proposes partition of the British Mandate of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states.
** C. W. Alcock proposes that " a Challenge Cup should be established in connection with the Association ", giving birth to the FA Cup.
** The Convention on the Future of Europe finishes its work and proposes the first European Constitution.
** European Union proposes Cadarache in France and Vandellos in Spain as candidate sites for ITER while Japan proposes Rokkasho.
** The plan proposes simultaneous offensives from Buffalo across the Niagara River, from Detroit into Ontario, and from Sault Ste.
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** Atkinson independently discovered the Midpoint circle algorithm for fast drawing of circles by using the sum of consecutive odd numbers.
** Mold-assisted reconstruction Made using laser scanning and 3D printing, a patient-specific silicone mold can be used as an aid during surgery.
** A natural science – one that seeks to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world using empirical and scientific method.
** Finnskogen, using the standard fiddle, but featuring some flatted notes influenced by Finnish folk music.
** For some verbs in some languages, the difference between perfective and imperfective conveys an additional meaning difference ; in such cases, the two aspects are typically translated using separate verbs in English.
** The Animas Ping is a pump / blood glucose meter combo that connect to each other using radio frequency.
** ISO 3166-1 numeric – three-digit country codes which are identical to those developed and maintained by the United Nations Statistics Division, with the advantage of script ( writing system ) independence, and hence useful for people or systems using non-Latin scripts.
** one of the humanities – academic discipline that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences.
** India is also planning to build fast breeder reactors using the thorium – Uranium-233 fuel cycle.
** Sex drive is dependent on androgen levels only in the presence of estrogen, but without estrogen, free testosterone level actually decreases sexual desire ( instead of increases sex drive ), as demonstrated for those women who have hypoactive sexual desire disorder, and the sexual desire in these women can be restored by administration of estrogen ( using oral contraceptive ).
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** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages
** Occidental Petroleum, an oil company which uses the nickname " Oxy " in its logo, originally from its stock's ticker symbol
** For ohm – SI unit of electrical resistance ; formerly also used upside down () to represent mho, the old name for the inverse of an ohm ( now siemens with symbol S ) used for electrical conductance.
** Photographic magnitude, the brightness of a celestial object corrected for photographic sensitivity, symbol m < sub > pg </ sub >
** Ninth Day of the Ninth Moon ; this was a three-day holiday associated with the promotion of longevity ( with chrysanthemum as the main symbol ).
** In the TNM staging system of cancer, the symbol to show that size or direct extent of the primary tumour was not assessed
** The ^ symbol is generated by a combination of Alt Gr + § same key as the 6 ; but, as opposed to the ^ symbol found to the right of the p key, it is not a dead key, and therefore does not generate the placing of a circumflex accent ;
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