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<p><b>Renard series</b> are a system of <a href="page.php?w=preferred_number">preferred number</a>s dividing an interval from 1 to 10 into 5, 10, 20, or 40 steps. This set of preferred numbers was proposed ca. 1877 by French army engineer Colonel <a href="page.php?w=Charles_Renard">Charles Renard</a> and reportedly published in an 1886 instruction for <a href="page.php?w=Tethered_balloon">captive balloon</a> troops, thus receiving the current name in 1920s. His system was adopted by the <a href="page.php?w=ISO">ISO</a> in 1949 to form the <b>ISO</b></p><p>
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