" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.

It is often useful to be able to compute the variance in a single pass, inspecting each value only once ; for example, when the data are being collected without enough storage to keep all the values, or when costs of memory access dominate those of computation.

This may be useful when, for example, multiple processing units may be assigned to discrete parts of the input.

For example, if a player has exactly 1 checker remaining on the 6-point, and rolls a 6 and a 1, the player may move the 6-point checker 1 place to the 5-point with the lower die roll of 1, and then bear that checker off the 5-point using the die roll of 6 ; this is sometimes useful tactically.

The case where X is F, and we have a bilinear form, is particularly useful ( see for example scalar product, inner product and quadratic form ).

An example is the designing of an organism to produce a useful chemical.

Ancestral knowledge of ethnobotany and ethnozoology is useful in drug discovery ( for example, bintangor plant for AIDS ) or as future alternative food sources ( such as sago starch for lactic acid production and sago maggots as a protein source ).

The potential energy is useful, for example, in understanding the concavity of the water surface in a rotating bucket.

In some applications it is useful to be able to compute the Bernoulli numbers B < sub > 0 </ sub > through B < sub > p − 3 </ sub > modulo p, where p is a prime ; for example to test whether Vandiver's conjecture holds for p, or even just to determine whether p is an irregular prime.

For example, programming language theory studies approaches to description of computations, while the study of computer programming itself investigates various aspects of the use of programming languages and complex systems, and human-computer interaction focuses on the challenges in making computers and computations useful, usable, and universally accessible to humans.

The practical motivation for partial application is that very often the functions obtained by supplying some but not all of the arguments to a function are useful ; for example, many languages have a function or operator similar to.

For example, sewage sludge has a low but significant calorific value, and burns to give ash containing minerals useful in the clinker matrix.

For example, if the static compression ratio is 10: 1, and the dynamic compression ratio is 7. 5: 1, a useful value for cylinder pressure would be ( 7. 5 )^ 1. 3 × atmospheric pressure, or 13. 7 bar.

The ISO 8601 standard also has the advantage of being language independent and is therefore useful when there may be no language context and a universal application is desired ( expiration dating on export products, for example ).

Many other two-terminal nonlinear devices exist, for example a neon lamp has two terminals in a glass envelope and has interesting and useful nonlinear properties.

For example they are useful for organizing online encyclopedias, where users can conveniently jump in the texts, in a controlled way, by using hyperlinks.

One example is the First Things First manifesto which was launched within the graphic design community and states " We propose a reversal of priorities in favor of more useful, lasting and democratic forms of communication – a mindshift away from product marketing and toward the exploration and production of a new kind of meaning.

Such systems are useful for modeling, for example, image processing.

He regularly admitted women and slaves into his school and was one of the first Greeks to break from the god-fearing and god-worshipping tradition common at the time, even while affirming that religious activities are useful as a way to contemplate the gods and to use them as an example of the pleasant life.

A good example of where this is useful is for shooters of older military surplus firearms, which often exhibit widely varying bore and groove diameters ; by making bullets specifically intended for the firearm in question, accuracy of the resulting cartridges can be significantly increased.

For example, the " jerk " produced by falling from outer space to the Earth is not particularly useful given the gravitational acceleration changes very slowly.

The harmonic mean is an average which is useful for sets of numbers which are defined in relation to some unit, for example speed ( distance per unit of time ).

Rather than excluding the special case n = 0, it is more useful to include ( which, as mentioned before, is isomorphic to the ring of integers ), for example when discussing the characteristic of a ring.

For example, components and modules are useful for large-scale programming, but the interaction of macros and these other constructs must be defined for their use together.

More useful still are systems which employ special abbreviations for repetitions of symbols ; for example, using the first nine letters of the alphabet for these abbreviations, with A standing for " one occurrence ", B " two occurrences ", and so on, one could then write C + D / for the number 304.

Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.

The adjustable fly cutter is very useful for cutting large diameter holes and can be used to cut exact-size discs by reversing the cutter blade.

This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.

In Coriolanus the agnomen of Marcius is used deliberately and pointedly, but the Homeric epithets and the Anglo-Saxon kennings are used casually and recall to the hearer `` a familiar story or situation or a useful or pleasant quality of the referent ''.

He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.

A concurrent effort is needed to make oceanographic data useful on the spot.

The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.

A useful by-product of this system is that the information necessary to set the gyro drift biases is available from the currents necessary to hold the system in level.

In spite of the shading of one type of course into another, I believe it is useful to talk about vocational courses as apart from academic courses.

In practice, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function ( BRDF ) may be required to characterize the scattering properties of a surface accurately, although the albedo is a very useful first approximation.

ANOVA " is probably the most useful technique in the field of

Regression is often useful.

A new computer program is used to create the most comfortable and useful prosthetics.

While the Arrhenius concept is useful for describing many reactions, it is also quite limited in its scope.

Straw is useful in binding the brick together and allowing the brick to dry evenly.

Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.