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  • ...y a special symbol (e.g., an [[Letter (alphabet)|alphabet letter]]), or by mathematicians' names to facilitate using it across multiple [[mathematical problem]]s.<re ...mvar|e}}, discovered in part by Jacob Bernoulli along with [[French people|French]] mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort]], is in the problem of [[dera ...
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  • The adjective ''real'', used in the 17th century by [[René Descartes]], distinguishes real numbers from [[imaginary number]] ...tion was a major development of [[History of mathematics#19th century|19th-century mathematics]] and is the foundation of [[real analysis]], the study of [[re ...
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  • | year_start = Before 12th century CE In the 17th century, the Queen of [[Kingdom of Cochin|Cochin]] adopted some Vettathunadu prince ...
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  • ...r designed by a commission assembled by Pope Gregory XIII in the sixteenth century."}}{{efn|Many countries that use other calendars for religious purposes use ...ays; when Russia and Greece did so (for their civil calendars) in the 20th century, the jump was 13 days. For other countries and territories, see [[List of a ...
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  • ...enturies when a rigorous symbolic formalism was developed. In the mid-19th century, the scope of algebra broadened beyond a [[theory of equations]] to cover d ...[[polynomial equations]] in view of solving them. This changed in the 19th century{{efn|These changes were in part triggered by discoveries that solved many o ...
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  • ...|Columba]] is a small, faint [[constellation]] named in the late sixteenth century. Its name is [[Latin]] for [[dove]]. It is located just south of [[Canis Ma ...aint constellation in the [[southern sky]], first defined in the late 16th century. Its name means "no feet" in Greek, and it represents a [[bird-of-paradise] ...
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  • ...of the House of Representatives to honor the life and achievements of 19th Century Italian-American inventor Antonio Meucci, and his work in the invention of ...designed by [[Mario Calderara]] and financed by [[Ambroise Goupy]] at the French firm [[Blériot Aéronautique]].<ref>Mario Calderara, Commander Calderara Gla ...
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  • ...mented battle in the history of the world is the [[Battle of Megiddo (15th century BC)|Battle of Megiddo]].<ref name="Dupay">Trevor N. Dupuy, ''Evolution of W * [[Catapult]] — A Catapult dating to the 19th century B.C was found on the walls of the fortress of [[Buhen]].<ref name="wac">{{C ...
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  • ...ved to Boreham Road, Warminster, where houses were built in the early 19th century.{{R|"Warminster and Westbury Journal 11 July 1903"|"Wiltshire Times 9 Augus ...st 1915"}} She then joined the [[sixth form]] and won the school prize for French in December 1916.{{R|"Wiltshire Times 16 December 1916"}}{{Efn|Dent's siste ...
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