In 1730, he published the ( New Method for Determining the Distance from the Sun to the Earth ).

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Determining how much insurance to get, at the most cost effective terms requires knowledge of the market for personal insurance.

Determining a precise value for a particular knot is difficult because many factors can affect a knot efficiency test: the type of fiber, the style of rope, the size of rope, whether it is wet or dry, how the knot is dressed before loading, how rapidly it is loaded, whether the knot is repeatedly loaded, and so on.

Determining whether a particular event or proceeding constitutes the commencement of adversarial criminal proceedings requires both an examination of the rules of criminal procedure for the jurisdiction in which the crime is charged and the Supreme Courts cases dealing with the issue of when formal prosecution begins.

Determining the distances to astronomical objects is crucial to understanding them, but the vast majority of objects are too far away for their distances to be directly determined.

Adrien-Marie Legendre ( 1805 ) developed the method of least squares, and introduced it in his Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes ( New Methods for Determining the Orbits of Comets ).

Determining if the customer is likely to return to reclaim an item is a subjective decision, and wily customers may attempt to persuade the pawnshop owner that the item in question is important to them (" that necklace belonged to my grandmother, so I will certainly return for it "), and they will claim that they will return to recover it.

* Position Determining Entity, used by cellular phone companies for E911 location determination

Determining what average input means is difficult, and often that average input has properties which make it difficult to characterise mathematically ( consider, for instance, algorithms that are designed to operate on strings of text ).

Determining such forces was required before building codes could specify the required strength of such buildings and such tests continue to be used for large or unusual buildings.

Determining a precise distance to the LMC, as with any other galaxy, was challenging due to the use of standard candles for calculating distances, with the primary problem being that many of the standard candles are not as ' standard ' as one would like ; in many cases, the age and / or metallicity of the standard candle plays a role in determining the intrinsic luminosity of the object.

Determining latitude was relatively easy in that it could be found from the altitude of the sun at noon with the aid of a table giving the sun's declination for the day.

Determining an appropriate and safe exercise program is challenging and must be carefully individualized to each person being sure to account for all contraindications and precautions.

* Path planning: Determining an optimal path for vehicle to go while meeting certain objectives and mission constraints, such as obstacles or fuel requirements

* IPC-2152 Standard for Determining Current-Carrying Capacity in Heavy Copper PCB ( registration required )

Determining the epoch of a Fifth Age is important for those who apply the Tolkien calendar to present dates.

“ Determining Control Strategies for Damage Tolerance of an Active Tensegrity Structure ”, Engineering Structures Volume 33, Issue 6, June 2011, Pages 1930-1939.

DELTA, ( D ) Determining cultural values, ( E ) Employing typical coaching techniques, ( L ) Looking and listening for motivational needs and deficiencies, ( T ) Tailoring coaching techniques to motivational needs and cultural values, and ( A ) Assessing the effectiveness of these.

Determining if the culture leans more toward individualism or collectivism would allow the coach to determine the type of feedback necessary for motivation.

" Although a Human Effects Advisory Panel was established in 1998 to provide independent assessment on human effects, data, and models for the use of ' non-lethal weapons ' on the general population, the TECOM Technology Symposium in 1997 concluded on non-lethal weapons: " Determining the target effects on personnel is the greatest challenge to the testing community ," primarily because " the potential of injury and death severely limits human tests.

Determining that the Enterprise did not fire the torpedoes but that the assassins are still aboard, the crew begins looking for them.

" Determining the link between data breaches and identity theft is challenging, primarily because identity theft victims often do not know how their personal information was obtained ," and identity theft is not always detectable by the individual victims, according to a report done for the FTC.

Determining the redshift of an object in this way requires a frequency-or wavelength-range.

Determining the root cause of the indicator displacement ( lateral runout ) requires disassembly of the disc from the hub.

Determining costs requires keeping records of goods or materials purchased and any discounts on such purchase.

Determining how much of each of these components to allocate to particular goods requires either tracking the particular costs or making some allocations of costs.

Determining which goods have been sold, and the cost of those goods, requires either identifying the goods or using a convention to assume which goods were sold.

Determining how much insurance to get, at the most cost effective terms requires knowledge of the market for personal insurance.

Determining the absolute concentration of a compound requires knowledge of the compound's absorption coefficient.

Determining the maximum effective conjugation length requires the synthesis of regioregular PTs of defined length.

Determining a clear winner ( and, incidentally, a clear loser ) usually requires the same number of rounds as a knockout tournament, that is the binary logarithm of the number of players rounded up.

Determining your location in 2D space requires two measurements or angle or range-two angle measurements, two distance measurements, or one angle and one distance.

Determining the present location of Amundsen's tent requires consideration of the precision of Amundsen's navigation in 1911, the flow of ice since then, and the amount of burial by intervening snow fall.

Determining the strain energy within a molecule requires knowledge of the expected internal energy without the strain.

Determining source routes requires accumulating the address of each device between the source and destination during route discovery.

Determining the ground speed of an aircraft requires the calculation of the head or tailwind.

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in conjunctive normal form where each clause is limited to at most three literals is NP-complete ; this problem is called " 3SAT ", " 3CNFSAT ", or " 3-satisfiability ".

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is limited to at most two literals is NL-complete ; this problem is called " 2SAT ".

Determining the satisfiability of a formula in which each clause is a Horn clause ( i. e. it contains at most one positive literal ) is P-complete ; this problem is called Horn-satisfiability.

Determining an instance of the membership problem ; i. e. given a string, determine whether where is the language generated by some grammar ; is also known as parsing.

Determining the truth or factual accuracy of information in a message is generally considered a separate problem from authentication.

Determining which instructions would actually be encountered during a run of the program reduces to the proven-unsolvable halting problem.

Determining whether such paths and cycles exist in graphs is the Hamiltonian path problem, which is NP-complete.

Determining the spatial lightning distribution from Schumann resonance records is a complex problem: in order to estimate the lightning intensity from Schumann resonance records it is necessary to account for both the distance to lightning sources as well as the wave propagation between the source and the observer.

Determining the prime factors of a number is an example of a problem frequently used to ensure cryptographic security in encryption systems ; this problem is believed to require super-polynomial time in the number of digits-it is relatively easy to construct a problem that would take longer than the known age of the Universe to solve on current computers using current algorithms.

Determining longitudinal position was a major problem in marine navigation ; Newton argued that astronomical positioning could be used, but an easier theoretical possibility was to use accurate knowledge of the time at a specific, base, location.

Determining whether there is an isomorphism between two graphs is also an important problem in computational complexity theory ; see graph isomorphism problem.

Determining the achromatic number is NP-hard ; determining if it is greater than a given number is NP-complete, as shown by Yannakakis and Gavril in 1978 by transformation from the minimum maximal matching problem.

" Determining exactly what formed the Serpent Mound Cryptoexplosion Structure is a problem that geologists continue to debate.

Determining a suitable classifier for a given problem is however still more an art than a science.

Determining the UMVUE, if one exists, for a particular problem is important for practical statistics, since less-than-optimal procedures would naturally be avoided, other things being equal.

Determining which cause is most likely is often a process of elimination-eliminating potential causes of a problem.