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Historical Vocabulary Part 1 (6494 words) |
 | In 276 BCE a grandson of one of Alexander's generals, Antigonus Gonatus, established a new dynasty in Macedonia known as the Antigonid Dynasty. |
| The Seleucid dynasty was the largest of the Hellenistic dynasties, and occupied most of the territory formerly controlled by the Persian empire, however, the size of this monarchy eventually lead to trouble, as the Seleucids had some difficulty in controlling it's eastern boundaries. |
| Ptolemy became king in 305 BCE and established the Ptolemaic dynasty of pharaohs. |
| Binary numeral system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3143 words) |
| The ancient Indian mathematician Pingala presented the first known description of a binary numeral system in the 3rd century BCE. |
| A full set of 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams, analogous to the 3-bit and 6-bit binary numerals, were known to the ancient Chinese in the classic text I Ching. |
| Binary 000 is equivalent to the octal digit 0, binary 111 is equivalent to octal 7, and so on. |
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