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Month: January 2020

What is the name of libjpeg?

Shortly after the development of the JPEG image format around 1991, an organization named the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) released an open source software package to help people use the format. While the software included a few utilities, such as cjpeg and djpeg, the important part of it was its C library. The library became … Continue reading What is the name of libjpeg?

Posted on January 26, 2020 by jsummers34Posted in Computing, File formatsLeave a comment

When was the Earth formed?

When was the Earth formed? Modern estimates are that it formed by accretion, 4.54ish billion years ago. But I'm not going to worry about its absolute age; what I'm wondering is where we choose to draw the line between Earth-not-quite-formed and Earth-now-formed. We don't really know how long it took for the Earth to form. … Continue reading When was the Earth formed?

Posted on January 14, 2020 by jsummers34Posted in Space1 Comment

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