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| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) United States Government technical standards published by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Computer-related products bought by the US Government must conform to these standards. (1995-03-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Census | Standardized system of numeric and/or alphabetic coding issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the US Department of Commerce. FIPS codes are assigned for a variety of geographic entities including American Indian and Alaska Native Areas, Hawaiian home lands, congressional districts, counties, county subdivisions, metropolitan areas, places and states. The purpose in using FIPS codes is to improve the use of data and avoid unnecessary duplication and incompatibility in the collection, processing and dissemination of data. (references) |
| A set of numeric and/or alphabetic codes issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure uniform identification of geographic entities (and other electronic data) throughout all federal government agencies. The entities covered are states, counties, metropolitan areas, Congressional districts, named populated and other locational entities (such as places, county subdivisions, and American Indian and Alaska Native areas), and geopolitical entities of the world. See census code and geographic code. (references) | |
Labor | Standards for information processing issued by the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S. Department of Commerce; includes a numeric designation for geographic areas such as States, counties, and metropolitan areas (FIPS). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FEDERAL INFORMATION PROCESSING STANDARDS |
| Specialty definitions using "FEDERAL INFORMATION PROCESSING STANDARDS": barrio, barrio-pueblo ♦ census code ♦ FIPS ♦ state code. (references) |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 45 44 45 52 41 4C 49 4E 46 4F 52 4D 41 54 49 4F 4E 50 52 4F 43 45 53 53 49 4E 47 53 54 41 4E 44 41 52 44 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01000101 01000100 01000101 01010010 01000001 01001100 00100000 01001001 01001110 01000110 01001111 01010010 01001101 01000001 01010100 01001001 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01000011 01000101 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000100 01000001 01010010 01000100 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F E D E R A L   I N F O R M A T I O N   P R O C E S S I N G   S T A N D A R D S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0045 0044 0045 0052 0041 004C 0049 004E 0046 004F 0052 004D 0041 0054 0049 004F 004E 0050 0052 004F 0043 0045 0053 0053 0049 004E 0047 0053 0054 0041 004E 0044 0041 0052 0044 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40393839523546243484049524735544349482505249373953534348412535435483835523853 |
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