For example, if the sorted list to which we apply binary search has n elements, and we can guarantee that each lookup of an element in the list can be done in unit time, then at most log < sub > 2 </ sub > n + 1 time units are needed to return an answer.

Although the approximately 2, 000 queries received each week are screened by the Car Talk staff, the questions are unknown to the Magliozzis in advance as " that would entail researching the right answer, which is what?

The results were 55. 9 % for no, 42. 0 % yes and 2. 1 % giving no answer (" blank vote ").

Operations may go " off the scale ;" for example, the diagram above shows that the slide rule has not positioned the 7 on the upper scale above any number on the lower scale, so it does not give any answer for 2 × 7.

And also Philippines has network wars in which the fans of the 2 major networks defend their favorite channel, or when the 2 major networks produce similar and rival programming, and example of this, is when an ABS-CBN fan tells an insult on GMA ( usually being called cheap ), and a GMA fan would answer and make another insult ( usually the answer is that ABS-CBN is mayabang, arrogant in English ), and an exchange of insults would occur, usually on social networking sites, especially Facebook.

2, 796 ( or about 12. 45 % of the population ) belonged to no church, are agnostic or atheist, and 1, 941 individuals ( or about 8. 64 % of the population ) did not answer the question.

* If the correct answer is YES, then it returns YES with probability at least 1 / 2 ( and DO NOT KNOW otherwise ).

* If the correct answer is NO, then it returns NO with probability at least 1 / 2 ( and DO NOT KNOW otherwise ).

By Markov's Inequality, the chance that it will yield an answer before we stop it is 1 / 2.

This means the chance we'll give the wrong answer on a YES instance, by stopping and yielding NO, is only 1 / 2, fitting the definition of an RP algorithm.

These r? s we in the NPG need 2 answer.

:" Today I had to answer a letter from your brother which cost me a lot of writing, so I can write very little to you ... You'll readily understand that I had to write a very emphatic letter, because he made no lesser suggestion than that I should take his 2 children into my care, since he would like to make a journey through Germany to England ...

* the work must come within one of the nine limited categories of works listed in the definition above, namely ( 1 ) a contribution to a collective work, ( 2 ) a part of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, ( 3 ) a translation, ( 4 ) a supplementary work, ( 5 ) a compilation, ( 6 ) an instructional text, ( 7 ) a test, ( 8 ) answer material for a test, ( 9 ) an atlas ;

* Another form of Bilingual Education is a type of Dual Language program that has students study in two different ways: 1 ) A variety of academic subjects are taught in the students ' second language, with specially trained bilingual teachers who can understand students when they ask questions in their native language, but always answer in the second language ; and 2 ) Native language literacy classes improve students ' writing and higher-order language skills in their first language.

Because these give the same final answer ( 8 ), we say that multiplication by 2 distributes over addition of 1 and 3.

The answer for the analogous question about polygons in 2 dimensions is " yes " and had been known for a long time ; this is the Bolyai – Gerwien theorem.

There are also growing communities of various other religions in Australia and 11. 2 % of people did not answer the question on the census.

After he gave a grudging assurance that the petition would be accepted on 2 June, saying: Unsatisfied, with this vague answer, the Commons and the Lords banded together and demanded " that a clear and satisfactory answer be given by His Majesty in full Parliament ".

Gameplay is the same as the first rounds, but each answer is worth £ 2 for each person who said it, and there are generally fewer possible answers.

On rare occasions, an Observation round would have the players answer a five-part question, such as " Name the five continuity errors in the film clip ," and players would receive 2 points for each correct answer.

The answer can be either ' yes ' or ' no ', and depends upon the values of x and y.

' A modern respondent might say they are both mammals ( an abstract, or a priori answer, which depends only on the meanings of the words ' dog ' and ' rabbit ' ), whereas someone a century ago might have said that humans catch rabbits with dogs ( a concrete, or a posteriori answer, which depended on what happened to be the case at that time ).

The answer depends on factors such as fixed costs, economies of scale and the degree of product differentiation.

How one answers the first question largely depends on the answer to the second question: should we interpret the jar to function as a prison, or a pantry?

The answer depends on the circumstances.

The answer depends on each person's preferences as well as on the particular tribes that are used as a point of reference-because tribal life itself is not the same for all tribes ; the environment where a tribe lives has an especially important influence.

The answer to the issue of if a human can be infallible or not depends on which philosophical school is receiving the question.

The answer is that nonlinearity enters because the Laplace-Beltrami operator depends upon the same function p which we used to define the metric.

The ultimate answer to this question depends on ethical judgments into which the field of economics offers no insight, but it also depends on some of the bread-and-butter preoccupations of economics, such as the extent and nature of income inequality and the behavioral response of taxpayers to alternative tax systems.

; Answer extraction: Answer extraction depends on the complexity of the question, on the answer type provided by question processing, on the actual data where the answer is searched, on the search method and on the question focus and context.

Fermi estimates are also useful in approaching problems where the optimal choice of calculation method depends on the expected size of the answer.

This depends on the context, as do several other possibilities: Sometimes " I don't know " is an acceptable answer, sometimes even a correct answer.

This does not have a clear cut answer, for it depends on what prior knowledge one is considering.

At a deeper level, the answer depends on the application.

Since this decision has no obvious correct answer, the optimal answer depends on the needs of the customer.

The answer depends a great deal on who ' you ' are: ' how you look at the world, how you shape your inquiry, the period and culture that shapes your outlook and the values that frame how you think '.

The answer is probably that it depends on the characteristic of the produced sound.

The answer to this largely depends on when, if ever, a closer inspection and DNA analysis is done on the skin of the Trent specimen.

The answer depends on the number of polymorphisms used to define that dissimilarity, and the populations being compared.

There the community, faced with the need to formulate policy on the level of absolute justice, can find the answer to its problem in the absolute truth which it holds as partially experienced.

In answer to a New York Times query on what is fame ( `` Thoughts On Fame '', October 23, 1960 ), Carl said: `` Fame is a figment of a pigment.

In answer to The Crisis, Swift produced The Publick Spirit Of The Whigs, his most extensive and bitter attack on his old friend.

The governor was not used to having his integrity questioned, and he promptly passed the charges on to Woodruff, demanding that Woodruff answer them.

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

Nobody should be more able to answer the questions on this score than engineering vice-presidents and chief engineers.

Now on the subjectivist view, this answer is ruled out.

while Jones, on the other hand, appeared perfectly confident and Ulyate decided perhaps that was the answer.

Maris, in talking to reporters, tries to answer all questions candidly and fully, but on rare occasions, he shuns newsmen.

`` I feel I must answer the question '', he said, `` since the onus later, if any, should fall on me -- I don't relish recriminations spread broadcast outside my family.

He aimed the cannon that fired the first return shot in answer to the Confederate bombardment on April 12, 1861.

the proper answer seems to be, that they are founded on the relation of cause and effect.

He is immediately at a loss, and knows not what to answer ... a Pyrrhonian cannot expect, that his philosophy will have any constant influence on the mind: or if it had, that its influence would be beneficial to society.

In some adversarial legislative systems, the court is permitted to make inferences on an accused's failure to face cross-examination or to answer a particular question.

* The ANS key on some graphing calculators, used as a shortcut for inputting the result ( answer ) of the previous calculation

In response to the question “ Which side does Abner part his hair on ?," Capp would answer, “ Both .” Capp said he finally found the right " look " for Li ' l Abner with Henry Fonda's character Dave Tolliver, in The Trail of the Lonesome Pine ( 1936 ).

Trivia games have a great deal of randomness based on the questions a player has to answer.

The Smartmodem was not necessary for BBS use, other modems could be left in " answer mode ", but the Smartmodem made operation dramatically simpler on the user end by allowing the easy dialling of any number of BBS systems.

A patient who can answer all of these questions is said to be " oriented times three " ( sometimes denoted " Ox3 " on a medical chart ), and is usually considered fully conscious.

Utilitarian theories, on the other hand, must answer the charge that ends do not justify the means.

Attlee responded the next day in the debate on increased air estimates that Hitler's speech contained unfavourable references to the Soviet Union but that " We see here a chance to call a halt in the armaments race ... We do not think that our answer to Herr Hitler should be just rearmament.

The answer is simple: most species have a negligible vapour pressure at such low temperatures and this means that they quickly condense on the sides of the apparatus.

' and the answer will come, ' The man who was on horseback, and hung witches.

Clabbers was the answer to a question on the TV show Jeopardy!

The principle is based on the unity of knowledge ; measuring the same result by several different methods should lead to the same answer.