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  2. Electricity pricing - Wikipedia

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    Electricity transport via high-voltage line Electricity pricing (also referred to as electricity tariffs or the price of electricity) can vary widely by country or by locality within a country. Electricity prices are dependent on many factors, such as the price of power generation, government taxes or subsidies, CO 2 taxes, [1] local weather patterns, transmission and distribution ...

  3. Punched card - Wikipedia

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    A 12-row/80-column IBM punched card from the mid-twentieth century A punched card (also punch card[1] or punched-card[2]) is a stiff paper-based medium used to store digital information via the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Developed over the 18th to 20th centuries, punched cards were widely used for data processing, the control of automated machines, and computing ...

  4. Regional effects of the 2021–2023 global energy crisis ...

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    The National Institute of Economic and Social Research reported that increasing energy bills have been the cause of double-digit inflation on the British Isles due to a disruption of energy sales from Eastern Europe.

  5. Year 2000 problem - Wikipedia

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    An electronic sign at École centrale de Nantes on 3 January 2000, incorrectly displaying the year as 1900. Translation: "Welcome to the Central School of Nantes 12:09 3 January 1900." The term year 2000 problem, [1] or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. Many programs represented four ...

  6. Duodecimal - Wikipedia

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    The duodecimal system, also known as base twelve or dozenal, is a positional numeral system using twelve as its base. In duodecimal, the number twelve is denoted "10", meaning 1 twelve and 0 units; in the decimal system, this number is instead written as "12" meaning 1 ten and 2 units, and the string "10" means ten. In duodecimal, "100" means twelve squared (144), "1,000" means twelve cubed ...

  7. Altafiber - Wikipedia

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    Electricity In 2011, Cincinnati Bell became the first telecommunications company to also provide retail energy service. [24] Through a partnership with Viridian Energy, Cincinnati Bell Energy competes with several other alternative electricity retailers for the power generation portion of customers' electricity bills. [22]

  8. Prestel - Wikipedia

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    Prestel was the brand name of a videotex service launched in the UK in 1979 by Post Office Telecommunications, a division of the British Post Office. [a] It had around 95,500 attached terminals at its peak, [2] and was a forerunner of the internet-based online services developed in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. [3] Prestel was discontinued in 1994 and its assets sold by British ...

  9. 105 (telephone number) - Wikipedia

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    In the United Kingdom Prior to the launch of the single number in 2016, people wishing to contact the relevant electric distribution company would have needed to know the 11-digit phone number of the electricity distribution company who served their area.