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    were alive during this time. The scientific revolution happened because people started doubting their old beliefs. This encouraged new ways of thinking and the development of new scientific instruments. During this time variables for math and the decimal system were introduced. Also the heliocentric theory was introduced contradicting the old theory saying that the earth was in the center. These are just a few of the innovations that were introduced to the world during this time. One Scientist…

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    mass of the international prototype of the kilogram. The first practical understanding of the metric system came in 1799, during the French Revolution, when the existing system of measure, which had fallen into shame, was temporarily replaced by a decimal system based on the kilogram and the meter. The French revelation invented and led into a lot of developments in everything epically in creating units and measurements this is reflected by the invention of the kilogram and the…

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    French Revolution Trials

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    creators believed that this would spread all over France. However it took a few year before France embraced this system. The creation of the metric system was a slow work in progress and was never finished until the 1790’s. There was a calendar and decimal time developed but was ignored by the French people and later abolished by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1806.…

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    The authors worked with smart pumps with a preprogrammed drug library that aids the nurse in programming the pump with a given medication. The mistake of a decimal point resulting in a delivery of excessive or insufficient medication would generate an alert notifying the programmer that this was out of the normal limit. These pumps also had alarms indicating occlusions, air bubbles, and free-flow protection…

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    by inscribing regular polygons inside a circle and calculating the resulting chords from each polygon. By combining this with a method to find the chord subtended by half the arc of a known chord, Ptolemy calculated chord lengths accurate to six decimal places [2]. Ptolemy and his predecessors already knew about the Pythagorean identity, sin^2⁡x+cos^2⁡x=1 expressed as chords of a circle instead of our modern notation. Ptolemy also knew the formulas for the sine of the sum of two angles and the…

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    Are Pennies Worthless

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    bother tipping me at all.” and “ I take it in loads to any store where I want to annoy the associate, especially if they've been mean to me.” There are some people who found a way to create a world where the penny is useful. They Have their kids learn decimals or the exchange of money with pennies. They create memories and hobbies out of collecting them and have grown so fond of pennies that they can't bear to see them go. I feel they are the reason the U.S. hasn't moved on yet. They don't seem…

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    When appropriate, show all your work to receive credit. Round all answers to two decimal places and place a box around them. 1. (5 points) Describe the differences between a retrospective study, a prospective study, and an experiment. Use complete sentences and no more than half a page. A Retrospective study is to identify the reasons leads to the incident or events that looking back to the history, and it is defined as a study that “examines past events to determine the factors that influenced…

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    Bet365 Business Strategy

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    Mobile betting, phone betting, and online betting are some of the easiest ways of placing bets with Bet365. They also offer several betting formats including Decimal (European style), three odds formats, American (US style), and Fraction (UK style). Bet365 may not offer No Depsoit Bonus Horse Racing but their excellent live streaming service and the live betting console is considered to be the best in the industry…

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    I did not only witness health disparities, my family was a statistic lost in the decimals and percentage of society. It was obvious to me that many of my family’s health issues were direct results of our lack of finances and lack of health education in our community. Thus, doctor visits became a question not of health but rather cost…

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    I was born prematurely at seven months and diagnosed with a physical disability called cerebral palsy spastic quadriplegia. As I grew older, I could not help but be filled with bitterness and resentment towards my disability, because I could not do things spontaneously. Being disabled brought on this belief that having the ability to walk would solve all my problems. I wished I had a body that was my very own: a body that was in sync with my mind, that moved ever so freely without any…

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