For comparison, Sirius has an absolute magnitude of 1. 4 which is greater than the Sun's absolute visual magnitude of 4. 83 ( it actually serves as a reference point ).

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

For comparison purposes that is approximately the same size as Aylesbury, Carlisle, Guildford or Scunthorpe urban areas.

For comparison, the equator of the Sun requires just over 25 days for a complete rotation.

For comparison, Internet penetration in the Ukraine was 33. 7 %, in Romania 35. 5 %, Russia 42. 8 %, and Serbia 55. 9 %.

For the Bandanese, on the other hand, although they welcomed another competitor purchaser for their spices, the items of trade offered by the Dutch — heavy woollens, and damasks, unwanted manufactured goods, for example — were usually unsuitable in comparison to traditional trade products.

For this reason, the history of Cairo during Ottoman times is often described as inconsequential, especially in comparison to other time periods.

For example, Darwinism may be used to refer to Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, in comparison to more recent mechanisms such as genetic drift and gene flow.

For comparison, treating of cotton during a typical U. S. growing season requires the same amount of chemical as roughly 1, 700 homes.

For example, it may be more cost-efficient to obtain the desired level of performance by using a cluster of several low-end computers, in comparison with a single high-end computer.

For comparison, London shipped 18, 727, 230 tons ( 16 billion kg ), and New York shipped 20, 390, 953 tons ( 18 billion kg ).

For comparison:

For comparison, a mouse with a normal amount of adipose tissue is shown on the right.

For example, there is a tradition in many newsgroups and other Internet discussion forums that once such a comparison is made, the thread is finished and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever debate was in progress.

For comparison, the energy density of TNT is 4. 7 megajoules per kilogram, and the energy density of gasoline is 47. 2 megajoules per kilogram.

For example, take the following comparison of execution time of computer programs:

For comparison, the other two general conic sections, the ellipse and the parabola, derive from the corresponding Greek words for " deficient " and " comparable "; these terms may refer to the eccentricity of these curves, which is greater than one ( hyperbola ), less than one ( ellipse ) and exactly one ( parabola ), respectively.

For comparison, the most efficient small four-stroke motors are around 43 % thermal efficiency ( SAE 900648 ); size is an advantage for efficiency due to the increase in the ratio of volume to surface area.

For comparison, consider a similar example written in Java-based pseudocode:

For comparison, a capacitor stores energy in an electric field, and a resistor does not store energy but rather dissipates energy as heat.

For comparison, cooking, smoking, salting etc.

For comparison, milk heat pasteurization is not being alleged to be a method " to cover up poor food quality "; consequently, food irradiation should not be accused to serve such criminal purposes.

For comparison, woven garments stretch mainly along one direction ( the bias ) and are not very elastic, unless they are woven from stretchable material such as spandex.

( For comparison, a sphere is an orientable surface with no boundary.

For each State ( except Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ) determine average per capita income based on the last three years.

For each State ( except the Virgin Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico, and, prior to 1962, Alaska and Hawaii ), determine the average per capita income for the last three years.

For all meteorites, the average nickel content is about 2.5 per cent.

For the industry of this model, the effect of such public pressures in the past has been to hold the price well below the short-run profit-maximizing price ( given the wage rate and the level of GNP ), and even below the entry-limited price ( but not below average cost ).

For example, per capita GDP gives an approximation of the arithmetic average income of a nation's population.

For example, the average overnight low in Prince George ( roughly located in the middle of the province ) in January is.

For small numbers of at-bats, it is possible ( though unlikely ) for a player's on-base percentage to be lower than his batting average ( H / AB ).

For instance, genetic studies of African-American people show an ancestry that is on average 17 – 18 % European.

For example, N ' Djamena records a maximum annual average rainfall of, while Ouaddaï Prefecture receives just a bit less.

For example, the relative atomic mass of chlorine is 35. 453 u, which differs greatly from a whole number due to being made of an average of 76 % chlorine-35 and 24 % chlorine-37.

For instance, when reporting data from a large city, it might be appropriate to give the average income for black males aged between 50 and 60.

For example in a paper reporting on a study involving human subjects, there typically appears a table giving the overall sample size, sample sizes in important subgroups ( e. g., for each treatment or exposure group ), and demographic or clinical characteristics such as the average age, the proportion of subjects of each sex, and the proportion of subjects with related comorbidities.

For example, J. M. W. Topp collected data annually between 1993 – 2003 and found that on the average three new plant species arrived each year, mainly on Diego Garcia.

For example, if an average of 0. 01 new civilizations are born each year, and they each last 500 years on the average, then on the average 5 will exist at any time.

For example, when electromagnetic radiation is absorbed by matter, particle-like properties will be more obvious when the average number of photons in the cube of the relevant wavelength is much smaller than 1.

For Earth, on average L is equal to 1. 384 km, which is much larger than the Moon's semimajor axis of 3. 844 km.

For example, two six-sided dice will on average yield a result of 7, thus the step number 8 means that 2d6 will be rolled.

For a situation where the traffic to be handled is completely new traffic, the only choice is to try to model expected user behavior, estimating active user population, N, expected level of use, U ( number of calls / transactions per user per day ), busy-hour concentration factor, C ( proportion of daily activity that will fall in the busy hour ), and average holding time / service time, h ( expressed in minutes ).

For example, a firewall designed to meet National Fire Protection Agency, ( NFPA ), 221-09 section A. 5. 7 which indicates an average temperature of 800 ° F, is not designed to withstand higher temperatures such as would be present in higher challenge fires, and as a result would fail in a time less than the wall rating.

For instance, it was decided that ' Category 1 ' status would apply to tournaments with an average Elo rating of participants falling within the range 2251 – 2275 ; similarly Category 2 would apply to the range 2276 – 2300 etc.

For houses in and around Geneva, the average price was 11, 595 Swiss francs ( CHF ) per square metre () ( June 2011 ), with a lowest price per square metre () of 4, 874 Swiss francs ( CHF ), and a maximum price of 21, 966 Swiss francs ( CHF ).

For example, the geometric mean can give a meaningful " average " to compare two companies which are each rated at 0 to 5 for their environmental sustainability, and are rated at 0 to 100 for their financial viability.