The Proto-Sinatic or Proto Canaanite script and the Ugaritic script were the first scripts with limited number of signs, in contrast to the other widely used writing systems at the time, Cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and Linear B.

These show a number of systems of script employing either ideograms or syllabograms ( see Linear B ).

According to archaeological evidence, cultures in Egypt ( hieroglyphs ), the Near East ( cuneiform )— and the Mediterranean, with the Mycenaean culture ( Linear B )— had viable writing systems.

Linear dynamical systems and systems that have two numbers describing a state are examples of dynamical systems where the possible classes of orbits are understood.

Linear dynamical systems can be solved in terms of simple functions and the behavior of all orbits classified.

Linear systems display sensitive dependence on initial conditions in the case of divergence.

Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history ; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were previously used.

However, the La Marle interpretation of Linear A has been rejected by John Younger of Kansas University showing that La Marle has invented erroneous and arbitrary new transcriptions based on resemblances with many different script systems at will ( as Phoenician, Hieroglyphic Egyptian, Hieroglyphic Hittite, Ethiopian, Cypro-Minoan, etc.

The sequence and the geographical spread of Cretan hieroglyphs, Linear A and Linear B, the three overlapping, but distinct writing systems on Bronze Age Crete and the Greek mainland can be summarized as follows:

* Linear signals and systems, and transform theory

He perceived that the scripts were two different and mutually exclusive writing systems, which he termed Linear A and Linear B.

Linear systems represent the main class of systems for which general techniques for stability control and analysis exist.

He conducted research in particle physics and systems theory at the University of Paris ( 1966 – 1968 ), the University of California, Santa Cruz ( 1968 – 1970 ), the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center ( 1970 ), Imperial College, London ( 1971 – 1974 ), and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory ( 1975 – 1988 ).

Linear algebra is the branch of mathematics concerned with the study of vectors, vector spaces ( also called linear spaces ), linear transformations ( also called linear maps ), and systems of linear equations.

Linear systems analysis defines the transfer function as the complex ratio between the output signal spectrum and the input signal spectrum as a function of frequency.

Dissipative dynamical systems, part I: General theory ; part II: Linear systems with quadratic supply rates.

Linear control systems use linear negative feedback to produce a control signal mathematically based on other variables, with a view to maintain the controlled process within an acceptable operating range.

Radiation therapists use advanced computer systems to operate sophisticated radiation therapy equipments such as Linear Accelerators.

* Linear shift-invariant systems, the discrete equivalent of linear time-invariant systems

" John Chadwick, a decipherer of Linear B, remarks "" her name may be connected with hērōs, ἥρως, ' hero ', but that is no help, since it too is etymologically obscure.

The simplest approach to decipherment may be to presume that the values of Linear A match more or less the values given to the fully translated Linear B script, used for Mycenean Greek.

While one or two terms may apparently be of Semitic origin ( such as KU-RO, see below ), there is yet not enough evidence to secure a connection between the language of Linear A and Semitic idioms.

The earth-altar may correspond to a Linear B mention of an " open-fire altar "; Linear B ( 14th-13th centuries BCE ) inscriptions also give the first mentions of offerings to Zeus and of the sacred precinct ( temenos ) near the altar, such as has been excavated at Lykaion

There is a name in Minoan Linear A mi-nu-te that may be related to Minos.

Another name, Pipituna, found on Linear B may be another form of Diktynna.

Linear regulators may place the regulating device between the source and the regulated load ( a series regulator ), or may place the regulating device in parallel with the load ( shunt regulator ).

Linear IC voltage regulators may include a variety of protection methods:

Citizens may " speak " to one another in Linear by sending streams of data back and forth, from mind to mind — either private conversations carried on between a specific subset of intended participants, or public announcements accessible to all involved in a conversation or otherwise " listening in ".

With the collapse of the palatial centres, no more monumental stone buildings were built and the practice of wall painting may have ceased ; writing in the Linear B script ceased, vital trade links were lost, and towns and villages were abandoned.

Linear regulators are practical if the current is low, the power dissipated being small, although it may still be a large fraction of the total power consumed.

* Linear bearing: This bearing provides linear motion ; it may take the form of a circular bearing and shaft or any other two matching surfaces ( e. g., a slide plate ).

For error distributions that belong to the Exponential family, a link function may be used to transform the parameters under the Generalised Linear Model framework.

Very little is known about Eteocretan except that it may be the descendant of a language recorded on the Linear A tablets.

Linear transformations from F < sup > n </ sup > to F < sup > m </ sup > may then be written as m × n matrices which act on the elements of F < sup > n </ sup > via left multiplication ( when the elements of F < sup > n </ sup > are column vectors ) or right multiplication ( when they are row vectors ).

It is uncertain whether the Proto-Elamite script may be considered the direct predecessor of Linear Elamite.

* Linear algebraic groups ( or more generally affine group schemes ) — These are the analogues of Lie groups, but over more general fields than just R or C. Although linear algebraic groups have a classification that is very similar to that of Lie groups, and give rise to the same families of Lie algebras, their representations are rather different ( and much less well understood ).

Linear equations can have one or more variables.

Linear A seems to have been used as a complete syllabary around 1900 – 1800 BC, although several signs appear earlier as mason marks.

In addition, complex words of three or more syllables appear in both Linear A and B ( therefore, 12 signs have the same values in both syllabaries: DA, I, JA, KI, PA, PI, RO, RI, SE, SU, TA, O ).

The application of Linear B appears to have been confined to administrative contexts.

According to La Marle's reading of Linear A, which have been heavily criticised as arbitrary we should read mwi-nu ro-ja ( Minos the king ) on a Linear A tablet.

When the third type of lepton, the tau, was discovered in 1975 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, it too was expected to have an associated neutrino ( the tau neutrino ).

* Linear DNA has free ends, either because both strands have been cut or because the DNA was linear in vivo.

Linear menus are most suited for dynamic, large menus that have many possible options, without any logical grouping, since pie menus can only show a limited number of menu items.

Linear zoetropes have several differences compared to cylindrical zoetropes due to their different geometries.

Linear zoetropes can have arbitrarily long animations and can cause images to appear wider than their actual sizes.

" Linear optical amplifiers " using gain-clamping techniques have been developed.

The A script appeared to have preceded the B. Evans dated the Linear B Chariot Tablets, so called from their depictions of chariots, at Knossos to immediately prior to the catastrophic Minoan civilization collapse of the 15th century BC.

Linear motors have been used for sliding doors and various similar actuators.

Linear motors are sometimes used to create rotary motion, for example, they have been used at observatories to deal with the large radius of curvature.

Linear Feedback Shift Registers ( LFSRs ) are usually chosen to have periods of exactly 2 < sup >< var > n </ var ></ sup >− 1.

Linear congruential generators have periods that can be calculated by factoring.

Linear operations that could be performed in the time domain have counterparts that can often be performed more easily in the frequency domain.

His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500 — 1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete.

) Linear B tablets have been found in abundance at Thebes, which might lead one to speculate that the legend of Cadmus as bringer of the alphabet could reflect earlier traditions about the origins of Linear B writing in Greece ( as Frederick Ahl speculated in 1967 ).

Linear compensators and suppressors do not have the disadvantages of a redirected muzzle blast ; they actually reduce the blast by venting high pressure gas forward at reduced velocity.

Tablets inscribed in Linear A have been found in numerous sites in Crete, and a few in the Aegean islands.