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Notably used for measuring gold and silver as a form of Chinese currency.
This is the mantra of the semiconductor industry:
  • power and area are the main limiting factors of chips, i.e., your budget:
    • chip area is ultra expensive because there are sporadic errors in the fabrication process, and each error in any part of the chip can potentially break the entire chip. Although there are
      The percentage of working chips is called the yield.
      In some cases however, e.g. if the error only affects single CPU of a multi-core CPU, then they actually deactivate the broken CPU after testing, and sell the worse CPU cheaper with a clear branding of that: this is called binning www.tomshardware.com/uk/reviews/glossary-binning-definition,5892.html
    • power is a major semiconductor limit as of 2010's and onwards. If everything turns on at once, the chip would burn. Designs have to account for that.
  • performance is the goal.
    Conceptually, this is basically a set of algorithms that you want your hardware to solve, each one with a respective weight of importance.
    Serial performance is fundamentally limited by the longest path that electrons have to travel in a given clock cycle.
    The way to work around it is to create pipelines, splitting up single operations into multiple smaller operations, and storing intermediate results in memories.
Red clump stars are a specific type of red giant star in the later stages of stellar evolution. These stars are typically in the horizontal branch phase, which follows the giant phase of a star's life cycle. Red clump stars represent a phase where stars have exhausted the hydrogen in their cores and are now fusing helium into carbon and oxygen. They are somewhat hotter and brighter than ordinary red giants, and their spectra show strong absorption lines indicative of helium fusion.
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity, also known as the Doppler method or the radial velocity method, is a technique used to identify exoplanets by observing the gravitational influence they have on their host stars. This method takes advantage of the Doppler effect, where the light emitted by a star shifts in wavelength depending on its motion relative to an observer.
Collisional excitation is a process in which an atom or molecule absorbs energy during a collision with a particle, such as another atom, molecule, or electron. This energy transfer can promote an electron within the atom or molecule to a higher energy state, or excited state. Here's how it works: 1. **Encounter**: During a collision, kinetic energy from the colliding particle (which can be a gas particle or an electron) is transferred to the target atom or molecule.
The Deslandres table, also known as the Deslandres chart, is a tool used in the field of astronomy and astrophysics to facilitate the classification and analysis of celestial bodies' spectra, particularly stars. Named after the French astronomer Camille Deslandres, the table organizes spectral lines based on their wavelengths. In detail, the Deslandres table presents a systematic arrangement of the absorption or emission lines observed in the spectra of stars.
The term "diffuse series" can refer to different concepts depending on the context. However, it is not a widely recognized term in any specific field, such as mathematics, physics, or biology. It might be a misinterpretation or a specific concept within a niche area that is not broadly known.
The Ellis R. Lippincott Award is an honor presented by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). It recognizes significant contributions to the field of legal information and law librarianship, typically through excellence in legal research, teaching, and the development of legal information resources. Named after a prominent figure in law librarianship, the award underscores the importance of innovation, leadership, and dedication in legal information services.
Fluorescence spectroscopy is an analytical technique used to measure the fluorescence emitted by a substance after it has absorbed light or other electromagnetic radiation. This technique is based on the principle of fluorescence, where certain molecules (fluorophores) absorb light at a specific wavelength and subsequently emit light at a longer wavelength.
The GF method, or the Galerkin Finite Element method, is a numerical technique used for solving differential equations, particularly in the fields of engineering and applied mathematics. It is a type of finite element method (FEM) that combines the Galerkin method—which is a technique for converting a continuous problem (like a differential equation) into a discrete one—with the finite element analysis framework.
Gamma spectroscopy is an analytical technique used to measure and analyze the energy and intensity of gamma-ray radiation emitted by radioactive materials. This method is widely utilized in various fields, including nuclear physics, environmental monitoring, medical diagnostics, and radioactive waste management, among others. ### Key Concepts of Gamma Spectroscopy: 1. **Gamma Rays**: Gamma rays are high-energy electromagnetic radiation emitted during radioactive decay. They have no mass or charge, making them highly penetrating and difficult to shield.

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