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Particular values of the Riemann zeta function

The particular values of the Riemann zeta function, also called zeta constants, are its values at integer arguments, such as ζ(2) = π²/6 and ζ(−1) = −1/12.

Partido de Berazategui

Partido de Berazategui, a Buenos Aires province partido created in 1960 from Quilmes by Ley 6317; seat Berazategui city; 358,712 people (2022), 221 km2, glass-industry capital.

Partido de Esteban Echeverría

Partido de Esteban Echeverría, Buenos Aires province district created 9 April 1913 by law 3467 from Lomas de Zamora, head city Monte Grande; five localities, 120 km2, 338,477 people (2022), in the Matanza-Riachuelo basin.

Partido de Florencio Varela

Partido de Florencio Varela: Buenos Aires Province district created 1891 (Ley 2397), head town San Juan Bautista, 496,433 residents (2022), 190 km², intendente Andrés Watson.

Partido de General Pueyrredón

Partido de General Pueyrredón (also General Pueyrredon), a Buenos Aires Province district Argentina headed by Mar del Plata; founded 1874, 667,082 inhabitants (2022), tourism- and services-based economy.

Partido de La Matanza

La Matanza is Buenos Aires Province's most populous partido, in Greater Buenos Aires, seat San Justo. Created 1 January 1778; 325.71 km²; 1,841,247 residents (2022 census); 14 localities; industrial and Peronist stronghold.

Partido de Lomas de Zamora

Partido de Lomas de Zamora, a partido (municipality) of Buenos Aires Province in Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina; created 1861, named after Juan de Zamora; 89 km2, about 690,000 people, head town Lomas de Zamora.

Partido de Malvinas Argentinas

Partido de Malvinas Argentinas, a Buenos Aires province district created by Ley 11.551 in 1994 from General Sarmiento and part of Pilar; seat at the city of Malvinas Argentinas since 2012; 350,674 inhabitants (2022 census), 63 km², eight cities on the Belgrano Norte rail line.

Partido de Moreno

Partido de Moreno: Buenos Aires province district created 25 October 1864, named for Mariano Moreno, head town Moreno, 184.17 km², 576,632 inhabitants (2022 census), part of Gran Buenos Aires.

Partido de Morón

Partido de Morón: county-level municipality in western Greater Buenos Aires, Argentina, seat Morón; founded 1785 as Cañada de Morón; localities Castelar, Haedo, El Palomar, Villa Sarmiento; population about 320,000; electoral district 080.

Partido de San Isidro

Partido de San Isidro: Buenos Aires province, Argentina district in Greater Buenos Aires, not the Lima, Heredia, or Corrientes municipalities of the same name; 297,270 people (2022), localities San Isidro, Martínez, Beccar, Acassuso, Villa Adelina, Boulogne; intendente Ramón Lanús.

Partido de San Miguel

Partido de San Miguel, colonial-era district of the Kingdom of Guatemala centered on San Miguel de la Frontera (founded 8 May 1530); became El Salvador's department of San Miguel in 1824, reduced in 1865.

Partido de Tigre

Partido de Tigre is a county-level municipality in Buenos Aires province, Argentina, about 30 km north of Buenos Aires, with its seat at the city of Tigre.

Partido de Tres de Febrero

Partido de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina; cabecera Caseros; created 15 October 1959 (Law 6.065) from General San Martín; named for the 1852 Battle of Caseros; 364,176 inhabitants (2022), 15 localities, UNTREF university.

Partido Federal ng Pilipinas

Partido Federal ng Pilipinas (PFP), the Federal Party of the Philippines, is a national political party founded in 2018 by Duterte supporters to promote federalism, now chaired by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., with Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. as national president.

Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930

The Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas-1930 (PKP-1930) is the first communist party of the Philippines, founded in 1930 and distinct from the larger CPP that split from it in 1968.

Partie tchadienne du lac Tchad

Partie tchadienne du lac Tchad, Ramsar site no. 1134: Chad's 1,648,168-hectare portion of endorheic Lake Chad, designated 14 August 2001 in Lac and Kanem prefectures, key for waterbirds, 150 fish species, and the Kouri Ox.

Parties to the European Convention on Extradition

Parties to the European Convention on Extradition (ETS No. 24, 1957): Council of Europe member states plus Israel, South Africa, and the Republic of Korea; entry into force 18 April 1960; depositary Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.

Parties to the Treaty of Versailles

The parties to the Treaty of Versailles, the 1919 peace treaty between Germany and the Allied and Associated Powers, included the United States, which signed but never ratified it.

Partington syndrome

Partington syndrome (PRTS, Partington-Mulley syndrome), an X-linked recessive ARX-gene (Xp22.13) disorder with intellectual disability, dysarthria, and progressive focal hand dystonia (Partington sign), first described in 1988.

Partior

Partior is a Singapore-based blockchain fintech founded in 2021 by DBS Bank, J.P. Morgan, and Temasek, operating a unified ledger for real-time interbank payment and foreign exchange settlement.

Partisan (military)

Partisan (military) denotes an irregular fighter in an armed group outside a regular army, typically resisting occupation; also called guerrilla warfare, shaped by the 1808 Spanish resistance, Clausewitz's people's war, and World War II partisan movements.

Partisan elections of state supreme court justices

Partisan elections of state supreme court justices are elections in which candidates run under a Republican or Democratic label, used in eight states including Alabama, Ohio, and Texas.

Partisan Prohibitions

The Partisan Prohibitions (党锢之祸) were two waves of persecution of Eastern Han scholar-officials in 166 and 169, ending with a lifelong ban on office for them and their kin.

Partisan Review

Partisan Review was an American quarterly journal of literature, culture, and politics, founded in New York in 1934 as a Communist Party organ and published until 2003.

Partisan War of 1812

The Partisan War of 1812 (Партизанское движение 1812 года) was the armed struggle of Russian peasants and army detachments against Napoleon's rear and communications during the Patriotic War of 1812.

Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae

Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae, or Partitio Romaniae, is the 1204 catalog of how twelve Venetians and twelve crusaders divided the Byzantine lands after the fall of Constantinople.

Partition (database)

A partition in a database is one of the smaller physical pieces into which a large table is divided, stored and managed separately while remaining one logical table to queries.

Partition (number theory)

In number theory, a partition of a nonnegative integer n is an unordered collection of positive integers summing to n, counted by the partition function p(n).

Partition chromatography

Partition chromatography is a chromatographic method that separates mixture components by distributing them between two liquid phases, introduced by Martin and Synge in 1941 and recognized with the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.