In 1665 Christiaan Huygens suggested using the melting and boiling points of water as standards, and in 1694 Carlo Renaldini proposed using them as fixed points on a universal scale.

High points in this history are the 80 or so libretti by Carlindo Grolo, Loran Glodici, Sogol Cardoni and various other approximate anagrams of Carlo Goldoni, the three Mozart / Da Ponte collaborations, and the comedies of Gioachino Rossini.

The total restoration of Palazzo Ducale-once venue of doges and senators and nowadays location of cultural events-and of the Old Harbour and the rebuilding of Teatro Carlo Felice, destroyed by the Second World War bombings that only spared the neoclassic pronao of the architect Carlo Barabino, were two more points of strength for the realization of a new Genoa.

He never won a top-level singles title on clay, coming closest when holding two match points against Thomas Muster in the final of the 1995 Monte Carlo Open.

Searches are only applicable for a finite set of tested points because simulation using the Monte Carlo method must be made so that limits for that particular model can be calculated.

As recently as 1991, competitors were able to choose their starting points from approximately five venues roughly equidistant from Monte Carlo ( one of Monaco's administrative areas ) itself.

But two wins in the 11-race Championship, at Monte Carlo and the ferocious Nürburgring ( the Green Hell ), and a series of strong points finishes, gave Hulme the advantage.

The 2001 rally season began inauspiciously for Burns – neither of the season curtain raisers, the Monte Carlo Rally or the Swedish Rally, yielded points scores, placing in peril before it had begun, the Englishman's title bid.

Nonetheless, both the Scotsman and Monte Carlo victor Tommi Makinen were later to hit upon snags of their own, while Burns ' own consistent points scoring culminated in a first and only individual rally victory of the season in New Zealand, with McRae beaten into second.

In general, if the Monte Carlo integral of f is sampled with points distributed according to a probability distribution described by the function g, we obtain an estimate,

For 1965, results were " equally impressive ", seeing wins at the Spanish, Rossfeld, Hellbronner, and Gaisburg rallys, as well as a class win in a gruelling Monte Carlo Rally which saw just 22 finishers in the points, out of 237 starters.

Still, in the examples studied by Morokoff and Caflisch, the quasi-Monte Carlo method did yield a more accurate result than the Monte Carlo method with the same number of points.

Vogel points out the " chord " in earlier works by Guillaume de Machaut, Carlo Gesualdo, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, or Louis Spohr, as in the following example from Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 18, tempo allegro:

In statistics, Halton sequences are sequences used to generate points in space for numerical methods such as Monte Carlo simulations.

He entered the top 10 for the first time on April 18, despite not playing, because Fernando Verdasco did not defend his Monte Carlo points.

McRae's intermittent success with Ford continued into 2001, where after failing to score in any of the first four rounds, including having momentarily led defending winner Tommi Makinen on the stages of the season opening Monte Carlo Rally prior to being forced into retirement, he then went on to score three consecutive victories in Argentina, Cyprus and Greece to tie with Mäkinen at the top of the points table.

While other algorithms usually evaluate the integrand at a regular grid, Monte Carlo algorithms randomly choose the points at which the integrand is evaluated.

He is also one of only three forwards to score over 100 international points ( John Eales and Carlo Checchinato are the others ).

Practitioners regard these points as a key problem with using Monte Carlo methods.

With SEAT's surprise withdrawal from the ' works ' scene for 2001 came two privateer opportunities in a Peugeot 206 WRC, in which Gardemeister scored drivers ' points on both the Monte Carlo Rally and the Swedish Rally, finishing fifth and fourth, respectively.

Carlo Simonetti of Italy came out of the first three rounds with 17 points.

Opponents of that interpretation point out that he did not attend the funeral ( he generally did not attend funerals ) and immediately left Paris with Diaghilev for a performance of Les noces ( The Wedding ) by the Ballets Russes at Monte Carlo.

Carlo CafieroThe collectivist anarchists advocated remuneration for the type and amount of labor adhering to the principle " to each according to deeds "; but held out the possibility of a post-revolutionary transition to a communist system of distribution according to need.

In particular, many Monte Carlo calculations carried out on modern massively parallel supercomputers are embarrassingly parallel applications, whose results can be very accurate.

The Social Democratic politician Carlo Schmid read out in the Bundestag the anti-Semitic lines from Raeder's Heroes ' Day Speech of 1939 ; noted that Raeder had not only refused to apologise for that speech, but testified at Nuremberg that he believed that Germany was threatened by " International Jewry "; and argued that Germans to have a better future meant Raeder could not be a role model or seen as a hero as Zenker and Heye wanted.

In the film, Petruchio is ruined by gambling and plans to get out of debt by marrying a rich woman – Kate, the daughter of a successful industrialist ( Carlo Reali ).

The first exploration of ancient Atria was carried out by Carlo Bocchi and published as Importanza di Adria la Veneta.

He first has a private " little chat " with Carlo, throwing the freeloader out.

Carlo died childless in 1429, and the lordship was divided into three parts, Rimini going to Galeotto Roberto, a Catholic zealot who turned out to be totally inadequate for the role.

Two days after arriving in Rome in February 1933, Merton moved out of his hotel and found a small pensione with views of the Palazzo Barberini and San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, two magnificent pieces of architecture rich with history.

By 9 January 1858, prior to setting out for Naples, Verdi wrote from his home the San Carlo that " the opera is done and even here I am working on the full score ".

Two-door sedans with front bench seating have phased out with the 1995-1999 Chevrolet Monte Carlo being the last model to offer it.

Other celebrated singers who debuted at the Met during Bing's tenure include: Maria Callas, who had a bitter falling out with Bing over repertoire, Renata Tebaldi, Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Birgit Nilsson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Moffo, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Corelli, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Luciano Pavarotti, Jon Vickers, Sherrill Milnes, and Cesare Siepi.

In the 1950s Serafino ’ s son Carlo transformed the business, and in due course the Riva brand became a worldwide legend sought out by screen stars, royalty and businessmen alike.

At the same time Lady Docker earned a reputation for having rather poor social graces when under the influence, and she and Sir Bernard were investigated for failing to correctly declare the amount of money taken out of the country on a visit to a Monte Carlo casino.

According to one anarchist writer, Carlo Tresca, Elia changed his story later, stating that Federal agents had thrown Salsedo out the window.

" Sullivan fled the London winter to convalesce in Monte Carlo as seven provincial tours ( one with a 17 year old Henry Lytton in the chorus ) and the U. S. production of Ida set out.

A Monaco expert, Andrea was on course for a podium position in Monte Carlo, before being taken out by triple world champion Nelson Piquet at the Lowes Hairpin.

According to Jasper Ridley, when the Assembly convened for the first time: " When the name of Carlo Bonaparte, who was a member for Viterbo, was called, he replied to the roll-call by calling out Long live the Republic!

According to Jasper Ridley: " When the name of Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, who was a member for Viterbo, was called, he replied to the roll-call by calling out Long live the Republic!

The talk became of “ Monte Carlo of the East ” and Jounieh stood out as a bride of the Lebanese coast.

In 1876, Cesare Lombroso set up the Institute of Forensic Medicine ; in 1884 Carlo Forlanini tried out the first artificial lung in Turin.

The name of Carlo Ferromonte is an italianized version of the name of Hesse's nephew, Karl Isenberg, while the name of the Glass Bead Game's inventor, Bastian Perrot of Calw, was taken from the owner of a machine shop where Hesse once worked after dropping out of school, named Heinrich Perrot.

On May 25, 1974, at Monte Carlo, Valdez became a world champion for the first time, by knocking Briscoe out in seven rounds.