Although BCD is not as widely used as in the past, decimal fixed-point and floating-point formats are still important and continue to be used in financial, commercial, and industrial computing, where subtle conversion and rounding errors that are inherent to floating point binary representations cannot be tolerated.

Whichever term is employed, there are three basic variants of the argument, each with subtle yet important distinctions: the arguments from in causa ( causality ), in esse ( essentiality ), in fieri ( becoming ), and the argument from contingency.

The two planets have other subtle but important differences.

This accountability requires that someone be chosen from parliament who has parliament's support ( or, at least, not parliament's opposition-a subtle but important difference ).

The second most important constraint is more subtle.

Commentators have become important in communicating the relevance of the characters ' actions to the story at hand, filling in past details and pointing out subtle actions that may otherwise go unnoticed.

There are two subtle but important points to the Ownership of the Means of Production.

The distinctions implied by the imprints were subtle but important.

The subtle, but important difference between these two grades means that either one of these, depending on the school, can be considered equivalent to the " black belt " rank.

The distinction between internationalization and localization is subtle but important.

* John Duns Scotus: John Duns Scotus is known as the " subtle doctor " whose hair-splitting distinctions were important contributions in scholastic thought and the modern development of logic.

It is important to note that there are several different approaches within the realm of neoclassical theory, each with subtle, but important, differences in their views regarding the extent to which the market should be left unregulated.

" Shimomura has said that she believes that an important part of " the creative process behind music " is to " convey a subtle message, something that comes from your imagination and sticks with the listener, without being overly specific about what it means ", rather than only writing simple themes with obvious messages.

In English law, the concept of legitimate expectation in the realm of administrative law and judicial review is estoppel's counterpart in public law, although subtle but important differences exist.

There are subtle yet important differences among these terms.

Not many scholars followed the utterly important distinction between memory ( mémoire ) and remembrance ( souvenir )— still some are ( Drago Braco Rotar, Marija Jurič Pahor, Samuel Friškič )—, and were able to grasp the crucial categorical differences between memory and history, but her works expose her incontestably broad knowledge, highly pertinent argumentation and subtle discursive skills, which are not easy to contest.

The clear, prompt improvement of severe parasomnia in children who are treated for SDB, as defined here, provides important evidence that subtle SDB can have substantial health-related significance.

Though logical consistency, factual accuracy and some degree of emotional appeal to the audience are important elements of the art of persuasion, in debating, one side often prevails over the other side by presenting a superior " context " and / or framework of the issue, which is far more subtle and strategic.

Site-directed mutagenesis is a sophisticated technique that can either change regulatory regions in the promoter of a gene or make subtle codon changes in the open reading frame to identify important amino residues for protein function.

This is a differentiating feature of test-driven development versus writing unit tests after the code is written: it makes the developer focus on the requirements before writing the code, a subtle but important difference.

However, the distinction is not important when the radix is apparent ( nearly always ), and the subtle difference in apostrophe placement is not common practice.

Part of the reason for this controversy was a subtle but important change in Edith Keeler's character.

The seed kernels are high in protein and fat with a subtle nutty flavour and constitute an important emergency food.

But there is, nevertheless, always a subtle difference in the way in which supposedly similar opinions are held.

This perceived tempo difference may be a coupling of subtle pronunciation differences and unusual sayings and can be a contributing factor to the difficulty non-Newfoundlanders sometimes experience with the dialect.

These can be as subtle as a size difference ( sexual size dimorphism, often abbreviated as SSD ) or as extreme as horns and color patterns.

" The New York Times website ( NYTimes. com ) has the motto " All the News That's Fit to Click ," a subtle difference.

Similar timbral distinctions are also possible with plucked string instruments by selecting an appropriate plucking point, although the difference is perhaps more subtle.

The subtle difference between these uses is the essence of the notion of linear dependence: a family F of vectors is linearly independent precisely if any linear combination of the vectors in F ( as value ) is uniquely so ( as expression ).

Bell and LaPadula integrated Denning's concept into their landmark MITRE technical report — entitled, Secure Computer System: Unified Exposition and Multics Interpretation — whereby labels attached to objects represented the sensitivity of data contained within the object ( though there can be, and often is, a subtle semantic difference between the sensitivity of the data within the object and the sensitivity of the object itself )), while labels attached to subjects represented the trustworthiness of the user executing the subject.

Their last common ancestor had at most a very simple photoreceptive spot, but a range of processes led to the progressive refinement of this structure to the advanced camera eye — with one subtle difference: The cephalopod eye is " wired " in the opposite direction, with blood and nerve vessels entering from the back of the retina, rather than the front as in vertebrates.

Often atman is mistaken as being interchangeable with the word jiva with the difference being somewhat subtle.

Although there are some subtle differences from the regional pattern over the Atlantic and Arctic, the main difference is larger amplitude anomalies over the North Pacific of the same sign as those over the Atlantic.

The difference between incitement and fighting words is subtle, focusing on the intent of the speaker.

The difference is subtle but was fully grasped by those who entered the Treaty.

The difference in phenotypes may be subtle ( e. g., having a hitchhiker's thumb and a straight thumb, eyes of slightly different colors, differential hair growth on opposite sides of the body, etc.

The difference between homonyms and polysemes is subtle.

There is a subtle difference between ' sealing ' ( which is a Mormon priesthood ordinance that binds individuals together in the eternities ), and ' marriage ' ( a social tradition in which the man and woman agree to be husband and wife in this life ).

Another subtle difference between the characters of Brutus and Bluto is that while Bluto was often portrayed as a fellow sailor who also sought to win the heart of Olive Oyl, Brutus was portrayed as a generic villain, or bank robber, who showed no romantic interest in Olive.

Though their effects were the same, there was a subtle difference between the concept of the interrupter and the synchronizer.

However there is a subtle difference: if one of the tori in the JSJ decomposition is " non-separating ", then the boundary of the characteristic submanifold has two parallel copies of it ( and the region between them is a Seifert manifold isomorphic to the product of a torus and a unit interval ).

In usage, a subtle difference is drawn between the charlatan and other kinds of confidence people.

A subtle difference is sometimes made between a " living fossil " and a " Lazarus taxon ".

In Canada, depending on the provincial legislation, there may be a subtle difference between a college and a university.

The difference between an event being almost sure and sure is the same as the subtle difference between something happening with probability 1 and happening always.