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31Metrication in the United Kingdom — The metric and imperial systems of measurement are used side by side in the United Kingdom: Eurostar s design speed is cited both as 300 km/h [1] and as 186 mph .[2] Metrication in the United Kingdom is the pr …
32Poverty of the stimulus — The poverty of the stimulus (POTS) argument is a variant of the epistemological problem of the indeterminacy of data to theory that claims that grammar is unlearnable given the linguistic data available to children. As such, the argument strikes… …
33Aristarchus On the Sizes and Distances — Aristarchus s 3rd century BC calculations on the relative sizes of, from left, the Sun, Earth and Moon, from a 10th century CE Greek copy On the Sizes and Distances (of the Sun and Moon) (Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων [ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης]) is… …
34Figure of the Earth — An oblate spheroid Geodesy …
35least squares approximation — ▪ statistics in statistics, a method for estimating the true value of some quantity based on a consideration of errors (error) in observations or measurements. In particular, the line (function) that minimizes the sum of the squared… …
36Prime Minister of the United Kingdom — Infobox minister office border = parliamentary minister = prime title = Prime Minister jurisdiction = the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland incumbent = Gordon Brown tookoffice = 27 June 2007 appointed by = Elizabeth II monarch …
37IQ and the Wealth of Nations — Infobox Book name = IQ and the Wealth of Nations title orig = translator = image caption = IQ and the Wealth of Nations cover author = Richard Lynn Tatu Vanhanen illustrator = cover artist = country = language = English series = subject = genre …
38Remez algorithm — The Remez algorithm (sometimes also called Remes algorithm, Remez/Remes exchange algorithm), published by Evgeny Yakovlevich Remez in 1934 [E. Ya. Remez, Sur la détermination des polynômes d approximation de degré donnée , Comm. Soc. Math.… …
39Earth radius — The Earth s shape, like that of all major planets, approximates a sphere. A true sphere has a unique radius, but on Earth the distance from the mean sea level at each point on the surface to the center (the radius of the Earth at a point on the… …
40Field electron emission — It is requested that a diagram or diagrams be included in this article to improve its quality. For more information, refer to discussion on this page and/or the listing at Wikipedia:Requested images. Field emission (FE) (also known as field… …
