Long and short scales
Long and short scales Long scale is the English translation of the ... the word billion means a million millions. Short scale is the English translation of ...
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Talk:Long and short scales
Talk:Long and short scales 2004 talk Here is the top line ... Used in: all the world, except the Short Scale countries Used predominantly in English-speaking ... UTC) To precise : is the english terms "long scale" and "short scale" a wikipedia ...
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Long and short scales/Reference: Guitel (extracts)
Long and short scales/Reference: Guitel (extracts) After having mentioned the ...
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Long-tail traffic
Long-tail traffic This article covers a range ... the probability of rare events. The terms long-range dependent, self-similar and heavy-tailed ... somewhat different but closely related phenomena. A long-tailed or heavy-tailed probability distribution is ... interest have been shown to have a long-tailed distribution. For example, if we consider ... transferred remains significant. Many processes are technically long-range dependent but not self-similar. ...
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Long-range dependency
Long-range dependency It has been suggested that ... article or section be merged with The long tail. (Discuss) A self-similar phenomenon behaves ... at different degrees of magnification, or different scales on a dimension (space or time). Self ... using heavy-tailed distributions, also known as long-tailed distributions. Heavy-tailed distributions can be ... Self-similar processes are said to exhibit long-range dependency. [1] Overview The design ...
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Famine scales
Famine scales Famine scales are the ways in which degrees of ... breeding livestock or mortgaging land, which trade short-term survival for long-term difficulty The failure of internal coping ... adequate food availability. Combined intensity and magnitude scales In an influential paper published in ...
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Hook-nose-long   (translated from Dutch)
Hook-nose-long Hook-nose-long The flame pattern on the head. Taxonomische ... Heterodon nasicus (Baird & Girard, 1852 ) hook-nose-long a toxic, but inoffensive snake from the ... thin white edge which arises from whole scales or a local white verkleuring on the sandy scales. On the back is same dot ...
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Talk:Global warming/Archive 2
... parable, of course, is that cherry-picking short term trends (as people did with the ... half of the 20th century, given the long equilibration times, it is probably still accounting ... forests for the next millenia, or the short-sighted but highly industrial policies which increase ... change; the intro doesn't mention the long term at all. So including the long term graph there is not at ...
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Talk:Binary prefix/Hexadecimal Billion
... ambiguous terms". It shows only, that the "short scale" is an erroneous system. The hexadecimal ... is your criterion for saying that the 'short scale' is erroneous? Are you quoting the ... would be ambiguous outside that context. The 'short scale' may be 'erroneous' according to the ... By examining the two systems, the original "long scale" and the reformed "short scale", one must objectively say, that ...
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Talk:Global warming/Archive 1
... you going to start claiming that the long-term trend is therefore clearly one of ... little higher than just showing a small short term correlation. The point is not that ... GHG Fifthly, the Iris stuff was exploded long ago. Exploded? According to whom? — Cortonin ... it fits. The GW page was > 45k long with the extra section: it needs stuff ... suggestion would be Climate change becomes very short introduction to entire topic (see various ...
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