12e Régiment blindé du Canada

The 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada (a translation of its former name, the "12th Canadian Armoured Regiment") is a Canadian Army armoured regiment based in CFB Valcartier, on the outskirts of Quebec City. The regiment has both a Regular Force and a Primary Reserve unit. The 12^e Régiment blindé du Canada's abbreviation is 12^e RBC.

In the Regular Force regiment, A, B and D Squadron operate the Coyote armoured car in the light cavalry (scout) role. Each squadron is currently organized into three troops. C Squadron, 12^e RBC is equipped with the Leopard 2 tank. The Squadron has since moved to CFB Gagetown to form part of C Squadron, Royal Canadian Dragoons.

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12^e Régiment blindé du Canada

RBC

RBC may refer to:

Gray code

The reflected binary code (RBC), also known as Gray code after Frank Gray, is a binary numeral system where two successive values differ in only one bit (binary digit). The reflected binary code was originally designed to prevent spurious output from electromechanical switches. Today, Gray codes are widely used to facilitate error correction in digital communications such as digital terrestrial television and some cable TV systems.

Name

Bell Labs researcher Frank Gray introduced the term reflected binary code in his 1947 patent application, remarking that the code had "as yet no recognized name". He derived the name from the fact that it "may be built up from the conventional binary code by a sort of reflection process".

The code was later named after Gray by others who used it. Two different 1953 patent applications use "Gray code" as an alternative name for the "reflected binary code"; one of those also lists "minimum error code" and "cyclic permutation code" among the names. A 1954 patent application refers to "the Bell Telephone Gray code".