Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

Instead of Catholics' being obliged or even encouraged to beget the greatest possible number of offspring, as many Non-Catholics imagine, the ideal of responsible parenthood is stressed.

Then, if the middle number is activated to its greatest potential in terms of this square, through multiplying it by the highest number, 9 ( which is the square of the base number ), the result is 45 ; ;

One of India's greatest emperors, Ashoka reigned over most of present-day India after a number of military conquests.

Due to the troubled times the empire was enduring, he had by far the greatest number of rebellions against him of all the Byzantine emperors.

Associated with these great valleys are a number of volcanic peaks, the greatest of which occur on a meridional line east of the eastern trough.

Two whole numbers m and n are called coprime if their greatest common divisor is 1 ; i. e., if there is no prime number that divides both of them.

This is related to Cesare Burali-Forti's " paradox " that there can be no greatest ordinal number.

They treated comradeship as of the greatest importance, those among them being the most feared and most powerful who were thought to have the largest number of attendants and associates.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

According to utilitarianism, a good action is one that results in an increase in pleasure, and the best action is one that results in the most pleasure for the greatest number.

This makes water the element with the greatest number of sides, which Plato regarded as appropriate because water flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls.

* In the theory of numerical semigroups, the conductor of a numerical semigroup ( also called the Frobenius number of the semigroup ) is the greatest integer not in the semigroup.

The central concept of utilitarianism, which was developed by Jeremy Bentham, was that that public policy should seek to provide " the greatest happiness of the greatest number ".

A number of groups have suggested that this could be the signature of new physics at the greatest observable scales ; other groups suspect systematic errors in the data.

While the greatest number of countercult ministries are found in the USA, ministries exist in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, England, Ethiopia, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sweden, and Ukraine.

At the time, the final episode of The Fugitive held the record for the greatest number of American homes with television sets to watch a series finale, at 72 % in August 1967.

The most efficient ligation temperature for blunt-ended DNA would therefore be the temperature at which the greatest number of alignments can occur.

But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world.

One of the greatest Homerists of our time, Frederick M. Combellack, argues that when it is assumed The Iliad and The Odyssey are oral poems, the postulated single redactor called Homer cannot be either credited with or denied originality in choice of phrasing.

Proponents of single elements tend to ensure predominance of that element without determining if it is justified, and the element with the most enthusiastic and vociferous proponents has assumed the greatest importance.

A duet with Ricky Van Shelton, " Rockin ' Years " ( 1991 ) reached number one but Parton's greatest commercial fortune of the decade came when Whitney Houston recorded " I Will Always Love You " for the soundtrack of the feature film The Bodyguard ( 1992 ); both the single and the album were massively successful.

In 1997 Enya released her greatest hits collection, Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya, again a top five smash in the UK and Germany, which featured two new songs: " Paint the Sky with Stars " and " Only If ..."; " Only If ..." later became a single.

Unsustainable agricultural practices are the single greatest contributor to the global increase in erosion rates.

I am not given to dogmatic judgments in the matter of literary creation, but if I had to make one I could say that Ecclesiastes is the greatest single piece of writing I have ever known, and the wisdom expressed in it the most lasting and profound.

On at least two occasions ( 255 and 253 BC ) whole fleets were destroyed in bad weather ; the disaster off Camarina in 255 BC counted two hundred seventy ships and over one hundred thousand men lost, the greatest single loss in history.

Bernhard ’ s focus on Jungian depth psychology proved to be the single greatest influence on Fellini ’ s mature style and marked the turning point in his work from neorealism to filmmaking that was “ primarily oneiric ”.

The greatest number of single family homes ( 277 ) were built between 1919 and 1945.

Leo Strauss used the term historicism and reportedly called it the single greatest threat to intellectual freedom.

As of June 2006 32 Italian troops have been killed in Iraq – with the greatest single loss of life coming on November 12, 2003 – a suicide car bombing of the Italian Carabinieri Corps HQ left a dozen Carabinieri, five Army soldiers, two Italian civilians, and eight Iraqi civilians dead.

The original fraction could have also been reduced in a single step by using the greatest common divisor of 90 and 120, which would be gcd ( 90, 120 )= 30.

Holly George-Warren, editor and author of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years, argues: " With the death of Keith Moon in 1978, rock arguably lost its single greatest drummer.

The greatest number of single family homes ( 498 ) were built between 1919 and 1945.

In a 2007 Best Life article, praising his performance in On the Waterfront, Rob Reiner wrote: " Marlon Brando gives the single greatest performance ever.

The single greatest predictor of an individual soldier's combat effectiveness was the number of rounds he fired.

" Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to show you the greatest kitchen appliance ever made ... All your onions chopped to perfection without shedding a single tear.

Most cost analysis studies of the Space Shuttle have shown that workforce is by far the single greatest expense.

A major protagonist for the Constitution of the United States, and the single greatest contributor to the Federalist Papers, advocating for the constitution's ratification through detailed examinations of its construction, philosophical and moral basis, and intent.

The Battle of Stalingrad saw perhaps the greatest casualty figures of any single battle in the history of warfare ( estimates are between 1, 250, 000 and 1, 798, 619 ).

** The Wilhelm Gustloff, with over 10, 000 mainly civilian Germans from Gotenhafen ( Gdynia ) in the Gdansk Bay, is sunk by three torpedoes from the Soviet submarine S-13 in the Baltic Sea ; up to 9, 400 are thought to have died – the greatest loss of life in a single ship sinking in war action in history.

* October 23 – WWI: Torpedoing of the armored cruiser SMS Prinz Adalbert results in only three men being rescued from a crew of 675, the greatest single loss of life for the German Imperial Navy in the Baltic Sea during the War.

In 1986, a screening of the entire Monkees television series by MTV led to renewed interest in the group, followed by a single (" That Was Then, This Is Now " reached number 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U. S .), a 20th Anniversary Tour, a greatest hits album and a brand new LP, Pool It!