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.
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Last updated: 2003-10-25