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 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 example, the Barony of Grey of Codnor was in abeyance for over 490 years between 1496 and 1989, and the Barony of Hastings was similarly in abeyance for over 299 years from 1542 to 1841.

For other similarly named songs, see ABC song ( disambiguation ).

For instance, an areal feature of the Pacific Northwest coast is that historical * has become palatalized in many languages, so that Saanich for example has and but no plain ; similarly, historical * in the Northwest Caucasian languages became palatalized to in Ubykh and in most Circassian dialects.

For with coprime and, one can use the Prime-Factor ( Good-Thomas ) algorithm ( PFA ), based on the Chinese Remainder Theorem, to factorize the DFT similarly to Cooley – Tukey but without the twiddle factors.

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 example, in Java, a string literal is defined as an instance of the < tt > java. lang. String </ tt > class ; similarly, in Smalltalk, an anonymous function expression ( a " block ") constructs an instance of the library's < tt > BlockContext </ tt > class.

For example, the melting point, the first three ionization energies, and the hydration energy are greater than those of neodymium and lower than those of samarium ; similarly, the estimate for the boiling point, ionic ( Pm < sup > 3 +</ sup >) radius, and standard heat of formation of monatomic gas are greater than those of samarium and less those of neodymium.

Douglas Haldeman similarly argues for a client's right to access to therapy if requested from a fully informed position: " For some, religious identity is so important that it is more realistic to consider changing sexual orientation than abandoning one's religion of origin ... and if there are those who seek to resolve the conflict between sexual orientation and spirituality with conversion therapy, they must not be discouraged.

For many years, alpine skis were shaped similarly to cross-country, simply shorter and wider, but the Elan SCX introduced a radical sidecut design that dramatically improved performance.

For a similarly named institution, see Canterbury University ( Seychelles ).

For quick approximations, it is enough to remember that doubling the distance reduces illumination to one quarter ; or similarly, to halve the illumination increase the distance by a factor of 1. 4 ( the square root of 2 ), and to double illumination, reduce the distance to 0. 7 ( square root of 1 / 2 ).

For the special case of simple cubic crystals, the lattice vectors are orthogonal and of equal length ( usually denoted a ); similarly for the reciprocal lattice.

For a series f in several indeterminates a form of " composition " can similarly be defined, with as many separate series in the place of g as there are indeterminates.

For instance, the eldest son of the Earl of Devon is styled Lord Courtenay, even though the Earl has no barony of that name, and similarly the eldest son of the Earl of Guilford is styled Lord North.

:: For the similarly named Seleucid ruler see Demetrius II Nicator.

For the similarly named Macedonian ruler, see Demetrius II of Macedon.

: For other similarly named locations, see Thebes ( disambiguation ).

: For the similarly named bird, see Killdeer.

For the similarly named city, see Killdeer, North Dakota.

: For other similarly named places, see Middlebury.

For all of the intellectual understanding, the reality remained slow inventory turnover and an accounting system that functionally treated inventory similarly to cash.

For example, the name of the City Beautiful urbanist movement emphasizes " beautiful "; similarly, in the line " This is the forest primeval " ( from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline ), " primeval " comes to the fore.

For example, the transcendental function sin has a natural counterpart * sin that takes a hyperreal input and gives a hyperreal output, and similarly the set of natural numbers has a natural counterpart, which contains both finite and infinite integers.

For example, the towel can be used as an extra layer of clothing for cold conditions ; or can be worn on its own around the waist ( similarly to a kilt or skirt ) or just under the shoulders ( similarly to a long dress ), usually in a warm environment.