The term "century" generally refers to a period of one hundred years. Here are a few contexts in which the term is commonly used: 1. **Time Measurement**: In chronological terms, a century spans 100 years. For example, the 20th century refers to the years from 1901 to 2000, and the 21st century refers to the years from 2001 to 2100.
Date windowing, in data analysis and processing contexts, refers to the method of segmenting or slicing time series data into specific intervals or windows based on dates or timestamps. This technique is particularly useful for various applications, including data aggregation, trend analysis, forecasting, and data visualization. ### Key Concepts of Date Windowing: 1. **Time Intervals**: Data can be segmented into various time intervals, such as daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly windows.
A decade is a period of ten years. It is often used to refer to a specific ten-year time frame, which can be counted from any year. For example, the 1990s refers to the decade from 1990 to 1999, while the 2020s refers to the decade from 2020 to 2029. Decades are commonly referenced in discussions of historical events, cultural trends, and societal changes.
"Five Years" is a song by David Bowie from his iconic 1972 album, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars." The song is notable for its apocalyptic theme, depicting a world facing imminent destruction and the emotional responses of people as they learn they have only five years left to live.
The Sexagenary cycle, also known as the Sexagenary calendar or the Chinese Sexagenary system, is a traditional East Asian method of counting years, months, days, and hours. It is based on a combination of two sets: the Ten Heavenly Stems (Tian Gan) and the Twelve Earthly Branches (Di Zhi). ### Components: 1.
The Geologic Calendar is a representation of Earth's history divided into chronological segments similar to a calendar year, with each "month" or "day" representing significant geological and biological events. It is used to illustrate the vast timescales of Earth's history, showcasing the development of the planet, the evolution of life, and major geological changes. In this analogy, the entire 4.
In stratigraphy, "Stage" refers to a specific unit of geological time and sedimentary rock characterized by a distinct set of strata that can be recognized and correlated across different regions. It is a subdivision of a geological period and is defined by the types and ages of the rock layers, which often represent particular intervals of geological time associated with the deposition of sediments, changes in environments, or significant biological events (such as mass extinctions or the emergence of different types of flora and fauna).
A leap year is a year that has an extra day added to it, making it 366 days long instead of the typical 365 days. This extra day is added to the end of February, giving it 29 days instead of the usual 28. Leap years are part of the Gregorian calendar system, which is the calendar used by most of the world today.
In the context of English breweries, "cask units" typically refer to a measurement related to the production and distribution of beer, particularly in cask form. Cask ale is a traditional format of beer in the UK, where the beer is conditioned and served from a cask rather than from kegs or bottles. Cask units are used to quantify the volume of cask beer produced or sold, often in terms of the number of pints or the total volume measured in gallons.
Mutchkin is a traditional Scottish game typically played in rural communities, often associated with Scottish social gatherings and events. The game is usually played with a wooden cup or bowl and involves players attempting to throw the cup in such a way that it lands the right way up, usually onto a target or within a designated area. The term is sometimes also used informally to refer to a drinking vessel or cup.
Libertarian morality is as follows: According to the principle of homesteading, each man owns his
own person, and he therefore owns the things which he produces – those parts of nature hitherto unowned and which,
when mixed with his labor, are transformed into productive
entities. The only moral ways for these entities to change ownership are voluntary trade and gift-giving.
Those who are productive with their property become
responsible for more and more, since they can afford to buy up additional property with their earnings. The overall productivity therefore, will rise.
Figure 1. If only consent was respected in more than sex. Marx's response was that it's not really consensual since the worker is bound to unwanted labour as a means of survival. The libertarian morality of "you still can't force someone to pay you more than your labor is worth" isn't satisfactory to non-libertarians, so see the section on welfare for a discussion of the provision of basic necessities in libertarianism, as well as the one on minimum wage. Either way, there are currently thousands of economic restrictions that are nowhere near essential for survival.

Pinned article: Introduction to the OurBigBook Project

Welcome to the OurBigBook Project! Our goal is to create the perfect publishing platform for STEM subjects, and get university-level students to write the best free STEM tutorials ever.
Everyone is welcome to create an account and play with the site: ourbigbook.com/go/register. We belive that students themselves can write amazing tutorials, but teachers are welcome too. You can write about anything you want, it doesn't have to be STEM or even educational. Silly test content is very welcome and you won't be penalized in any way. Just keep it legal!
We have two killer features:
  1. topics: topics group articles by different users with the same title, e.g. here is the topic for the "Fundamental Theorem of Calculus" ourbigbook.com/go/topic/fundamental-theorem-of-calculus
    Articles of different users are sorted by upvote within each article page. This feature is a bit like:
    • a Wikipedia where each user can have their own version of each article
    • a Q&A website like Stack Overflow, where multiple people can give their views on a given topic, and the best ones are sorted by upvote. Except you don't need to wait for someone to ask first, and any topic goes, no matter how narrow or broad
    This feature makes it possible for readers to find better explanations of any topic created by other writers. And it allows writers to create an explanation in a place that readers might actually find it.
    Figure 1.
    Screenshot of the "Derivative" topic page
    . View it live at: ourbigbook.com/go/topic/derivative
  2. local editing: you can store all your personal knowledge base content locally in a plaintext markup format that can be edited locally and published either:
    This way you can be sure that even if OurBigBook.com were to go down one day (which we have no plans to do as it is quite cheap to host!), your content will still be perfectly readable as a static site.
    Figure 2.
    You can publish local OurBigBook lightweight markup files to either https://OurBigBook.com or as a static website
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    Figure 3.
    Visual Studio Code extension installation
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    Figure 4.
    Visual Studio Code extension tree navigation
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    Figure 5.
    Web editor
    . You can also edit articles on the Web editor without installing anything locally.
    Video 3.
    Edit locally and publish demo
    . Source. This shows editing OurBigBook Markup and publishing it using the Visual Studio Code extension.
    Video 4.
    OurBigBook Visual Studio Code extension editing and navigation demo
    . Source.
  3. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook-media/master/feature/x/hilbert-space-arrow.png
  4. Infinitely deep tables of contents:
    Figure 6.
    Dynamic article tree with infinitely deep table of contents
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    Descendant pages can also show up as toplevel e.g.: ourbigbook.com/cirosantilli/chordate-subclade
All our software is open source and hosted at: github.com/ourbigbook/ourbigbook
Further documentation can be found at: docs.ourbigbook.com
Feel free to reach our to us for any help or suggestions: docs.ourbigbook.com/#contact