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  2. Estimated date of delivery - Wikipedia

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    The estimated date of delivery ( EDD ), also known as expected date of confinement, [ 1] and estimated due date or simply due date, is a term describing the estimated delivery date for a pregnant woman. [ 2] Normal pregnancies last between 38 and 42 weeks. [ 3] Children are delivered on their expected due date about 4% of the time.

  3. Ab urbe condita - Wikipedia

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    Ab urbe condita ( Latin: [ab ˈʊrbɛ ˈkɔndɪtaː]; 'from the founding of the City '), or anno urbis conditae ( Latin: [ˈannoː ˈʊrbɪs ˈkɔndɪtae̯]; 'in the year since the city's founding'), abbreviated as AUC or AVC, expresses a date in years since 753 BC, the traditional founding of Rome. [ 1][ 2] It is an expression used in ...

  4. Birth rate - Wikipedia

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    Birth rate, also known as natality, is the total number of live human births per 1,000 population for a given period divided by the length of the period in years. [ 1] The number of live births is normally taken from a universal registration system for births; population counts from a census, and estimation through specialized demographic ...

  5. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    The mechanical calculator industry started in 1851 Thomas de Colmar released his simplified Arithmomètre, which was the first machine that could be used daily in an office environment. For 40 years, [ 58] the arithmometer was the only mechanical calculator available for sale and was sold all over the world.

  6. Arithmometer - Wikipedia

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    Arithmometer. The arithmometer ( French: arithmomètre) was the first digital mechanical calculator strong enough and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment. This calculator could add and subtract two numbers directly and could perform long multiplications and divisions effectively by using a movable accumulator for the result.

  7. Old Style and New Style dates - Wikipedia

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    The issue spans the changeover; the date heading reads: "From Tuesday September 1, O.S. to Saturday September 16, N.S. 1752". [ 1] Old Style ( O.S.) and New Style ( N.S.) indicate dating systems before and after a calendar change, respectively. Usually, they refer to the change from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar as enacted in ...

  8. Pinwheel calculator - Wikipedia

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    The teeth are moved by a second wheel located inside the first and moved by a side lever. A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels whose number of teeth were adjustable. These wheels, also called pinwheels, could be set by using a side ...

  9. Leibniz wheel - Wikipedia

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    A Leibniz wheel or stepped drum is a cylinder with a set of teeth of incremental lengths which, when coupled to a counting wheel, can be used in the calculating engine of a class of mechanical calculators. Invented by Leibniz in 1673, it was used for three centuries until the advent of the electronic calculator in the mid-1970s.