Copies of some inquiries are not online and may have to be ordered ; for example, the losses of Flight 19 or USS Cyclops can be ordered direct from the United States Naval Historical Center.

Most organized rides, for example Cyclosportives, Challenge Rides or reliability trials, and hill climbs include registration requirements and will provide information either through the mail or online concerning start times and other requirements.

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

For example, consider an online bookseller whose customers maintain wishlists of books they'd like to have.

An example of an automated online assistant on a merchandising website.

* Mentioned in Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne Truss, 2003 ( ISBN 1-86197-612-7 ) as an example of online debate about punctuation.

Recently, with the advent of cloud computing, IDEs have begun to transition online and run within web browsers ; one example of this is Cloud9 IDE.

Another example is online and phone-in polls, which are biased samples because the respondents are self-selected.

When some form of online machine learning must be used, where the cost is partially minimized as each new example is seen.

An automated online assistant providing customer service on a web page, an example of an application where natural language processing is a major component.

An example is online gamers who benefit from participation of other gamers as distinct from how they benefit from game developers.

Examples include SSL and its successor, TLS, which are commonly used to provide security for web browsers, for example, so that they might be used to securely send credit card details to an online store.

Quality of service guarantees are important if the network capacity is insufficient, especially for real-time streaming multimedia applications such as voice over IP, online games and IP-TV, since these often require fixed bit rate and are delay sensitive, and in networks where the capacity is a limited resource, for example in cellular data communication.

For example, Leet (" Leetspeak " or " 1337 ") was originally popular only among certain Internet subcultures, such as crackers and online video gamers.

Useful-and typical-applications of the " streaming " concept are, for example, long video lectures performed " online " on the internet.

* Web-based services ( often with agents of their own ) to supply information specifically to agents, for example, a Trust service that an agent could ask if some online store has a history of poor service or spamming

For example, a simple online photo gallery may offer three options to users, as specified through HTTP GET parameters in the URL.

For example, a website such as an online auctions website may charge the users of its auction service to list an auction, but also display third-party advertisements on the site, from which it derives further income.

For example, discussions taking place during a business meeting are " online ", while issues that do not concern all participants of the meeting should be " taken offline " — continued outside of the meeting.

One example of a common use of these concepts is a mail user agent that can be instructed to be in either online or offline states.

When online it will attempt to connect to mail servers ( to check for new mail at regular intervals, for example ), and when offline it will not attempt to make any such connection.

A third example of a common use of these concepts is a web browser that can be instructed to be in either online or offline states.

For example, in online discussion forums and other online communities, off-topic posts and spam are regarded as " noise " that interferes with the " signal " of appropriate discussion.

A prototypical example of an algorithm is Euclid's algorithm to determine the maximum common divisor of two integers ; an example ( there are others ) is described by the flow chart above and as an example in a later section.

: For an example of the simple algorithm " Add m + n " described in all three levels see Algorithm examples.

An example of using Euclid's algorithm will be shown below.

For example, the subprogram in Euclid's algorithm to compute the remainder would execute much faster if the programmer had a " modulus " ( division ) instruction available rather than just subtraction ( or worse: just Minsky's " decrement ").

A graphical expression on Euclid's algorithm using example with 1599 and 650.

Take as an example a program that looks up a specific entry in a sorted list of size n. Suppose this program were implemented on Computer A, a state-of-the-art machine, using a linear search algorithm, and on Computer B, a much slower machine, using a binary search algorithm.

For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12 % of the algorithm's operations arbitrarily quickly ( while the remaining 88 % of the operations are not parallelizable ), Amdahl's law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.

A notable example was Phil Katz's PKARC ( and later PKZIP, using the same ". zip " algorithm that WinZip and other popular archivers now use ); also other concepts of software distribution like freeware, postcardware like JPEGview and donationware like Red Ryder for the Macintosh first appeared on BBS sites.

For example, algorithms are known for factoring an n-bit integer using just over 2n qubits ( Shor's algorithm ).

In contrast, randomized algorithms like the PPSZ algorithm by Paturi, Pudlak, Saks, and Zani set variables in a random order according to some heuristics, for example bounded-width resolution.

For example, the security available with a 1024-bit key using asymmetric RSA is considered approximately equal in security to an 80-bit key in a symmetric algorithm ( Source: RSA Security ).

Computation is a process following a well-defined model understood and expressed as, for example, an algorithm, or a protocol.

An Earley parser is an example of such an algorithm, while the widely used LR and LL parsers are simpler algorithms that deal only with more restrictive subsets of context-free grammars.

Since the invention of the MIDI system in the early 1980s, for example, some people have worked on programs which map MIDI notes to an algorithm and then can either output sounds or music through the computer's sound card or write an audio file for other programs to play.

This is done for example in the Jenkins-Traub algorithm.

) The inherent latency of the coding algorithm can be critical ; for example, when there is two-way transmission of data, such as with a telephone conversation, significant delays may seriously degrade the perceived quality.

A decision problem which can be solved by an algorithm, such as this example, is called decidable.

As an example, if we have a color depth of 12bits / pixel and an algorithm that compresses at 40x, then BPP equals 0. 3 ( 12 / 40 ).