Amdahl's law does represent the law of diminishing returns if you are considering what sort of return you get by adding more processors to a machine, if you are running a fixed-size computation that will use all available processors to their capacity.

The advantage of such a system lies in its ability to expand its own capacity rapidly and without additional human effort ; in essence, the initial investment required to construct the first clanking replicator would have an arbitrarily large payoff with no additional labor cost, with future returns discounted by their present value.

As time progresses, the pH returns to normal due to the buffering capacity of saliva and the dissolved mineral content of tooth surfaces.

In a variance of the usual ending, in this version of the story, Misty returns in a much different capacity.

Thirty-one performances were given in the tent and averaged 82 % of capacity generating approximately $ 650, 000 in revenue against approximately $ 800, 000 for the tent itself, $ 1, 000, 000 in lost revenue from ticket returns, and $ 330, 000 in repair costs to the Bowmer.

However, returns to aid show diminishing returns possibly because of absorption capacity and other constraints.

Sales, in his capacity as provost, engaged in enthusiastic campaigns of evangelism among the Protestants of Savoy, winning many returns to the Old Faith ( i. e., Catholicism ).

They argue that newly-minted money invested on behalf of those without access to existing cash savings or collateral can be adequately repaid through the returns on those investments, which need not be inflationary if the economy is operating below capacity.

Dooku returns to Coruscant and delivers to Sidious the blueprints for the Geonosian-designed Death Star and informs his master that their plan is working: " The war has begun ".

In a short time an inquest is held, and a Coroner's Jury returns a verdict of ' Accidental Death.

Once Harry returns, Moody carries him into the castle, where he reveals that he is a Death Eater, and that he was responsible for placing Harry's name in the Goblet and for turning the trophy into a portkey.

It was recently revealed that, when Wolverine is injured so seriously that his body actually dies before his healing factor can repair the damage, he returns to life by fighting with Azrael, the Angel of Death, while trapped in Purgatory, due to Wolverine defeating Azrael in combat in the real world during the First World War.

In The Death of Achilles Akunin describes how Fandorin returns to Russia, only to find his old friend General Mikhail Sobolev murdered.

He returns in the final story arc " The Wake ", when he still refuses to die after Death wonders whether anything has made him change his mind.

The promise is that either Hazel or Fox will take Alvie's place when Death returns, if only she will let Alvie live for a while longer.

Death and the Maiden returns to London's West End 20 years since it first premiered at the Royal Court Theatre.

A Taste of Death -( March 2012 for World Book Day )- takes place in Alex's past, someone returns to attack him.

When Captain Marvel is dying from cancer, Thanos returns to the character in a vision and introduces him to the entity Death.

In Mort, Albert returns to the world to help Death, but seems ready to attack him when it looks like he has his former job as Archchancellor back.

But after seven years Death returns, seeking vengeance for the splitting, burning, grinding, and winnowing and demanding one of Ba ‘ al's brothers to feed upon.

Although the detachment at Málaga was transferred away, each year a platoon of legionaries returns to march in the Holy Week procession with the Christ of the Good Death, a life-size effigy of Christ Crucified, adopted by the Legion as Patron in the 1920s.

Daala returns in Planet of Twilight, when she learns of and stops Moff Getelles ' plan to use the Death Seed plague to take over the Meridian sector.

; Valjean's Death: Fantine returns as a ghost and escorts the dying Valjean to Heaven, praising him for having raised her daughter to adulthood.

The losses of the century of war were enormous, particularly owing to the plague ( the Black Death, usually considered an outbreak of bubonic plague ), which arrived from Italy in 1348, spreading rapidly up the Rhone valley and thence across most of the country: it is estimated that a population of some 18 – 20 million in modern-day France at the time of the 1328 hearth tax returns had been reduced 150 years later by 50 % or more.

One of the most notable of these returns came on November 12, 2006, when he returned a missed field goal for a 108-yard touchdown.

" One of the twin brothers returns home from shooting in the Corsican mountains, and is visited by the ghost of the other twin.

One result of these theories is the home-market effect, which asserts that, if an industry tends to cluster in one location because of returns to scale and if that industry faces high transportation costs, the industry will be located in the country with most of its demand, in order to minimize cost.

But it returns to the One, which means that it doesn't cut itself off from its source, but receives the good which is its identity from the One.

One can argue that a circle represents a starting point, which ultimately returns back to its beginning.

One way to rigorously define the delta function is as a measure, which accepts as an argument a subset A of the real line R, and returns δ ( A )

One easy trick for legacy code to adopt a more efficient model without major changes to its source code is simply to set the sleep parameter passed to WaitNextEvent to a very large value — on OS X, this puts the thread to sleep whenever there is nothing to do, and only returns an event when there is one to process.

One ferry departs New York City on Friday afternoon and returns on Sunday night.

One train runs from and returns to Cairns daily.

One night, Cigar Face returns ( covered in bandages and casts ) and brings along a new group of Belgoody's goons to surround the Monster with guns.

One way is to define a simpler function ( call it f ) that takes a set of elements, and returns a set that contains all of those elements plus all of their ( direct ) child elements.

" The Holy One, blessed be His name, said to Elijah, ' Behold, the precious gift which I have bestowed on my world: though a man sins again and again, but returns in penitence, I will receive him '" ( Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 28b ).

One can identify " losers " as stocks that have had poor returns over some number of past years.

: One characteristic of overreaction is that average returns following announcements of good news is lower than following bad news.

One metaphor describes the function as a " machine " or " black box " that for each input returns a corresponding output.

One example of a function that acts on non-numeric inputs takes English words as inputs and returns the first letter of the input word as output.

One should also note that these returns are not risk-adjusted.

PC Gamer U. S. gave the game its " Editor's Choice " rating at 90 %, stating that " One of the greatest RTS franchises of all time returns to glory ", while PC Gamer UK gave it a more reserved rating of 82 %, stating that it was " A welcome, but limited, return.

* Natural Limits One of the key studies in the area concerns diminishing returns on investments generally, either physical or financial, pointing to whole system limits for resource development or other efforts.

One day, Leah's firstborn son Reuben returns from the field with mandrakes for his mother.

One year later, Dick Grayson returns to New York City ( his previous home base with the Teen Titans ) in order to find out who has been masquerading as Nightwing.

After Neo enters the Source and returns from the Matrix with new information, he tells Morpheus that the Prophecy was a system of control that would bring the One to the Source to disseminate the programming inside Neo into the Matrix to allow a reload of the Matrix while Zion is destroyed by the machines and rebuilt by the One and red pills.