Gauss
1. <person> Carl Friedrich Gauss.
2. <statistics> Gaussian distribution.
See normal distribution.
3. <unit> The unit of magnetic field strength. 1 gauss = 1 Maxwell /
cm^2.
A good loudspeaker coil magnet flux density is of the order of 10000 gauss.
4. <language> A powerful matrix programming language by Aptech Systems.
Gauss is very popular with econometricians.
http://rhkoning.xs4all.nl/gauss/index.htm.
(2003-10-25)
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