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The digits 0 9 were arranged so they correspond to values in binary prefixed with 011, making conversion with binary-coded decimal straightforward.
Following ten consecutive draws, Korchnoi threw away a winning position in the seventeenth game to give Karpov a 3 0 lead.
In 1905 England's captain Stanley Jackson not only won the series 2 0, but also won the toss in all five matches and headed both the batting and the bowling averages.
They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 0 whitewash in 1920 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.
In a rain-hit series in 1926, England managed to eke out a 1 0 victory with a win in the final Test at The Oval.
Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe took the score to 49 0 at the end of the second day, a lead of 27.
Still captained by Bradman and now featuring the potent new ball partnership of Ray Lindwall and Keith Miller, Australia were convincing 3 0 winners.
In 1948 Australia set new standards, completely outplaying their hosts to win 4 0 with one draw.
The tide finally turned in 1953 when England won the final Test at The Oval to take the series 1 0, having narrowly evaded defeat in the preceding Test at Headingley.
Australia won 4 0 in 1958 59, having found a high-quality spinner of their own in new skipper Richie Benaud, who took 31 wickets in the five-Test series, and paceman Alan Davidson, who took 24 wickets at 19. 00.
West Indies defeated England twice in the mid-1960s and South Africa, in two series before they were banned for apartheid, completely outplayed Australia 3 1 and 4 0.
In 1970 71, Ray Illingworth led England to a 2 0 win in Australia, mainly due to John Snow's fast bowling, and the prolific batting of Geoffrey Boycott and John Edrich.
England then lost the 1975 series 0 1, but at least restored some pride under new captain Tony Greig.
Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 79.
After Australia took a 1 0 lead in the first two Tests, Botham was forced to resign or was sacked ( depending on the source ).
This was a remarkable match in which Australia looked certain to take a 2 0 series lead after they had forced England to follow-on 227 runs behind.
Australia went 2 0 up after three Tests, but England won the Fourth Test by 3 runs ( after a 70-run last wicket stand ) to set up the final decider, which was drawn.
The Australian team of 1989 was comparable to the great Australian teams of the past, and resoundingly defeated England 4 0.
With several England players having retired or been injured after the 2005 series, Australia regained The Ashes in the 2006 07 series with a convincing 5 0 victory, the second time an Ashes series has been won by that margin.

0 and 5
A trained marksman shooting five rounds at a target, all under practically the same conditions, may hit the bull's-eye from 0 to 5 times.
For example, the marksman gets 5 shots, but we take his score to be the number of shots before his first bull's-eye, that is, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 ( or 5, if he gets no bull's-eye ).
The number of successes on each shot is a value of a random variable that has values 0 or 1, and there are 5 such random variables here.
The abundance of antimony in the Earth's crust is estimated at 0. 2 to 0. 5 parts per million, comparable to thallium at 0. 5 parts per million and silver at 0. 07 ppm.
First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.
bar: 5 color: lightgrey from: 0 till: 491
For example, the full moon has an angular diameter of approximately 0. 5 °, when viewed from Earth.
Alpha particles have a typical kinetic energy of 5 MeV ( that is,0. 13 % of their total energy, i. e. 110 TJ / kg ) and a speed of 15, 000 km / s.
Each is the size of a large asteroid, only capable surviving in microgravity conditions, and processes data at 0. 5 % the speed of a human brain.
The Robert F. Henry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 236. 2, the Millers Ferry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 133. 0, and the Claiborne Lock & Dam is located at river mile 72. 5.
Arabic numerals or Hindu numerals or Hindu-Arabic numerals or Indo-Arabic numerals are the ten digits ( 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 ).
The glyphs most commonly used in conjunction with the Latin script since early modern times are < big > 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 </ big >.
The primary ( ζ < sup > 1 </ sup > Ant ) is of magnitude 5. 8, though it is a double star with a primary of magnitude 6. 2 and a secondary of magnitude 7. 0.
So a quasar at an absolute magnitude of − 25. 5 is 100 times brighter than our galaxy ( because ( 10 < sup > 0. 4 </ sup >)< sup >(− 20. 5 -(− 25. 5 ))</ sup >

0 and years
: 15-64 years: 0. 87 male ( s )/ female
: 65 years and over: 0. 77 male ( s )/ female
: 65 years and over: 0. 88 male ( s )/ female
During the past 50 years, 7, 435 Schmidt camera plates were used to complete several sky surveys that make the data in USNO-B1. 0 accurate to within 0. 2 arcsec.
A few years later Roma won their first Coppa Italia trophy in 1963 64, by beating Torino 1 0.
The age distribution,, in Aarau is ; 1, 296 children or 8. 1 % of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 1, 334 teenagers or 8. 4 % are between 10 and 19.
The senior population distribution is 1, 588 people or 10. 0 % of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 1, 219 people or 7. 7 % are between 70 and 79, there are 942 people or 5. 9 % who are between 80 and 89, and there are 180 people or 1. 1 % who are 90 and older.
, children and teenagers ( 0 19 years old ) make up 24. 3 % of the population, while adults ( 20 64 years old ) make up 62. 3 % and seniors ( over 64 years old ) make up 13. 4 %.
Thus, it has a year 0, the years before that are designated with negative numbers and the years after that are designated with positive numbers.
Astronomers use the Julian calendar for years before 1582, including this year 0, and the Gregorian calendar for years after 1582 as exemplified by Jacques Cassini ( 1740 ), Simon Newcomb ( 1898 ) and Fred Espenak ( 2007 ).
Then in 1702 the French astronomer Philippe de la Hire used a year he labeled at the end of years labeled ante Christum ( BC ), and immediately before years labeled post Christum ( AD ) on the mean motion pages in his Tabulæ Astronomicæ, thus adding the designation 0 to Kepler's Christi.
Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).
Although he used the usual French terms " avant J .- C ." ( before Jesus Christ ) and " après J .- C ." ( after Jesus Christ ) to label years elsewhere in his book, the Byzantine historian Venance Grumel used negative years ( identified by a minus sign, −) to label BC years and unsigned positive years to label AD years in a table, possibly to save space, without a year 0 between them.
DXF was originally introduced in December 1982 as part of AutoCAD 1. 0, and was intended to provide an exact representation of the data in the AutoCAD native file format, DWG ( Drawing ), for which Autodesk for many years did not publish specifications.

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