According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

According to Pickover, " if humans attempt to read such data in the form of numbers and letters, they will take in the information at a snail's pace.

According to Vepstas ( 1997 ) " Pickover hit on the novel concept of looking to see how closely the orbits of interior points come to the x and y axes.

According to the Cayman Islands Chamber of Commerce, in 1999 an estimated 1, 300 people lived on Cayman Brac, while only 115 resided on Little Cayman.

According to an article in The Guardian, Guest attended the House of Lords regularly until the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats.

According to a 1999 estimate, there are no merchant marines and there are two airports, both having paved runways of 914 to 1, 523 meters.

According to a 1999 International Monetary Fund report, remittances from Dominican Americans, are estimated to be about $ 1. 5 billion per year.

According to the CIA World Factbook, in 1999 there were 51, 000 fixed telephone lines in use in the Isle of Man.

According to the CIA World Factbook, as of 1999 there were 27, 490 televisions in use in the Isle of Man.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to Piskorski ( 1999 ) and Kempke ( 2001 ), Slavic immigration reached Farther Pomerania in the 7th century.

According to the Law on Stationing Troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region ( or Macau Garrison Law, passed by the NPC Standing Committee on June 28, 1999 ), the mission of the PLA in Macau is to defend the special administrative region by " preventing and resisting aggression ; safe-guarding the security of Macau ; undertaking defence services ; managing military facilities ; and handling related foreign military affairs.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to the 1999 Constitution of Niger, the President may call a referendum on any matter ( except for a revision of those elements of the Constitution outlined in Article 136 — including the presidential term limits ).

According to the 1999 census, there are 610, 000 native speakers ( almost all of whom are also native French speakers ) and perhaps another million persons with some exposure to the language.

According to a 1999 partnership agreement, Davis ' interest passed to his wife, Carol.

According to a broad definition of slavery used by Kevin Bales of Free the Slaves ( FTS ), an advocacy group linked with Anti-Slavery International, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world.

According to James Bamford, the NSA had picked up communications of al-Mihdhar and al-Hazmi back in 1999, but had been hampered by internal bureaucratic conflicts between itself and the CIA, and did not do a full analysis of the information it passed on to the agency.

According to Pakistani Afghanistan expert Ahmed Rashid, " between 1994 and 1999, an estimated 80, 000 to 100, 000 Pakistanis trained and fought in Afghanistan " on the side of the Taliban.

According to Abu Daoud's 1999 book, " Arafat was briefed on plans for the Munich hostage-taking.

According to United Nations estimates, world population reached six billion in late 1999, and continued to climb to 6. 8 billion in late 2009.

According to data from the World Health Organization, the amount of tobacco per 1000 cigarettes fell from 2. 28 pounds in 1960 to 0. 91 pounds in 1999, largely as a result of reconstituting tobacco, fluffing and additives.

According to Carstensen and Schmidt ( 1999 ) groupware is part of CSCW.

According to an interview with the three in the spring 1999 issue of the college's magazine, The Albright Reporter, they were watching Footloose during a heavy snowstorm.

According to a Serbian government report, from January 1, 1998 to June 10, 1999 the KLA killed 988 people and kidnapped 287 ; in the period from June 10, 1999 to November 11, 2001, when NATO took control in Kosovo, 847 were reported to have been killed and 1, 154 kidnapped.

According to Human Rights Watch, as “ many as one thousand Serbs and Roma have been murdered or have gone missing since June 12, 1999 .”

According to the 1999 Belarus Census, the Belarusian language is declared as a " language spoken at home " by about 3, 686, 000 Belarusian citizens ( 36. 7 % of the population ) as of 1999.

According to the logical positivists, unless a statement could be verified by experience, or else was true or false by definition ( i. e. either tautological or contradictory ), then it was meaningless ( this is a summary statement of their verification principle ).

According to this view, ethics is more a summary of common sense social decisions.

According to the site's summary of the critical consensus, " Chasing Amy explores gender roles, sexual mores, and the limits of friendship with a mixture of sensitivity, raw honesty, and director / screenwriter Kevin Smith's signature raunchy humor.

According to the summary on ABC. com, each new Bachelor episode contains a rose ceremony during which one or more contestants is eliminated.

According to some former CIA Air America pilots, he made a small fortune as an opium warlord as they regularly flew his planeloads of opium to Saigon, he engaged in summary executions, and ran a Hmong Army with child soldiers as young as 14 .( ref.

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

According to a heavily redacted declassified version of the summary, it was apparently judged by lab weapons experts that the team had come up with a credible design for the technically more challenging implosion style nuclear weapon.

According to a summary of a similar story preserved in Peniarth MS 98B ( which dates from the late sixteenth century ) the poem describes a battle between Gwydion and Arawn, the Lord of Annwn.

According to Athanasius, Arius authored a poem called the Thalia (" abundance ", " good cheer " or " banquet "): a summary of his views on the Logos.

According to this summary, the Fourth Assessment Report finds that human actions are " very likely " the cause of global warming, meaning a 90 % or greater probability.

According to the CRS, " The LIS ... provides bill summary and status, full text of legislation and public laws, full text of committee reports, hearings, and other documents, and the Congressional Record for the current and earlier Congresses.

According to Hunter Miller's notes, " the Barlow translation is at best a poor attempt at a paraphrase or summary of the sense of the Arabic " and " Article 11 ... does not exist at all.

According to an executive summary, the battle of Takur Ghar was the most intense firefight American special operators have been involved in since 18 U. S. Army Rangers were killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, in 1993.

According to a Better Business Bureau summary released in February 2004:

According to an FBI summary, Pellicano sometimes played Hollywood clients against each other, at one point asking financier ( and Bing friend ) Ron Burkle for a $ 100, 000 to $ 250, 000 shakedown in order not to be investigated by Michael Ovitz, another Pellicano client.

According to ATCB, the following is the minimum of which must be documented: “ the current goals of any treatment plan, verbal content of art therapy sessions relevant to client behavior and goals, artistic expression relevant to client behavior and goals, changes ( or lack of change ) in affect, thought process, and behavior, suicidal or homicidal intent or ideation ” ( 2005 ) and a summary of the " clients response to treatment and future treatment recommendations " ( 2005 ).

According to the summary by C. Rajagopalachari, she resorted to penance and received a garland of blue lotuses from Lord Subramanya and it was foretold that anyone wearing the garland would become the cause of Bhishma's death.

According to C. Rajagopalachari's Mahabharata summary, when Shikhandini was still a young woman she discovered the garland of ever-blooming blue lotuses hung on the palace gate.

According to a summary taken from Florida Statutes Ch.

According to summary by C. Rajagopalachari, she resorted to penance and received a garland of blue lotuses from Lord Subramanya and it was foretold that anyone wearing the garland would become Bhishma's enemy.

According to the summary report of the new lines, the construction cost including West and South Island Lines is between HK $ 14. 6-16. 5 billion.

According to the summary report of the new lines, the construction cost including the South Island Line would be between HK $ 14. 6-16. 5 billion.

According to the enrollment summary for the fall of 2006, though the majority of Northern State University's students are Caucasian, it consists of students from many different cultures.

According to the SSCI report, " Iraqi Support for Terrorism contained the following summary judgments regarding Iraq's provision of training to al-Qaida: Regarding the Iraq-al-Qa ' ida relationship, reporting from sources of varying reliability points to ... incidents of training ... The most disturbing aspect of the relationship is the dozen or so reports of varying reliability mentioning the involvement of Iraq or Iraqi nationals in al-Qa ' ida's efforts to obtain CBW training.