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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.
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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 average was 73. 3 days in Latin America and 16. 3 days in OECD countries.
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.
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For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
For there is also the `` face of reality '' in the form of the individual's perceptions of his own abilities and interests, of the objective possibilities open to him, of the familial and other social pressures to which he is exposed.
For instance, college-educated people consistently show up in study after study as more often than others supporters of the Bill of Rights and other democratic rights and liberties.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
`` For six years my father had had to do too much commanding and convincing, '' writes the narrator, `` not to understand that man begins with ' the other ' ''.
For centuries the North Atlantic nations dominated the world and as long as they did they could afford the luxury of fighting each other.
For instance -- what about all those people Harold Rhodes went toward unhesitatingly, as if this were the one moment they would ever have together, their one chance of knowing each other??
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For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.
For instance, a site adjoining other publicly owned lands, such as a national forest or a public road, may be desirable, whereas a site next to an industrial plant might not.
For specialized types of displays, such as large three-dimensional units reproducing a product, package, human or animal figures, etc., reinforced plastics and rotationally molded vinyl plastisols are other materials frequently used.
For large letters, e.g. thermoformed of acrylic or butyrate, there are other techniques.
For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.
For no particular reason, other than that the writer felt it might -- just might -- encourage both mates to be in attendance.
For a number of years Kentucky, Louisiana and several other states have been building state-sponsored vocational education schools that serve nearby school districts in several counties.
For the purposes of this discussion, the problem of relative prices is encompassed in these two variables, since GNP includes other prices.
`` For these and other reasons '', says Dr. Brodie, `` orthodontics can prolong the life of teeth ''.
For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.
For we have said, in effect, that of the two alternatives to his position variously represented by the other participants in the demythologizing discussion, only one is really an alternative.
For some reason, this ellipsis in the conversation spread until it swallowed up every other topic.
For their purposes, oxygen and other gases were not drawn from the surrounding atmosphere through the medium of lungs but sustained artificially by solution in their shells.
* For a normal distribution, the arithmetic mean is equal to both the median and the mode, other measures of central tendency.
For easy viewing, the middle 2 beads on each wire ( the 5th and 6th bead ) usually are of a different colour from the other eight beads.
For these, other possible explanations have also been proposed.
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