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Transformers were essential for the emergence of AC as the standard choice of the new electric networks. DC was a logical choice for the earliest isolated minigrids serving sections of cities, and there were some undeniable concerns about the safety of high-voltage AC (HVAC).
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
Currying transforms a function with many arguments into a series of functions that each take one argument. A good reason to curry a function is that we want to call it based on some of its arguments, but not all of them: func add(_ x: Int) -> (_ y: Int) -> Int { { y in return x + y } } The function add() takes a single argument x and returns another function that adds y to x. Calling add(1)(2) produces the final result since add is really a series of two functions. Given a curried function, we can apply it partially.
Functions in Swift: Pure, Higher-Order and First-Class Functions, Currying and Partial Application
Vadim Bulavin
Thus, one uses his pulse to be sure that a pendulum is regular and then uses the pendulum to be sure that the pulse is regular. Isn’t this a vicious circle? What does it mean? It means that we never measure time itself. We always measure physical variables A, B, C... (oscillations, beats, and many other things), and we always compare one variable with another one.
What Is Time? What Is Space?
Carlo Rovelli
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