They were originally identified as outliers to a general trend of decreasing extinction rates during the Phanerozoic, but as more stringent statistical tests have been applied to the accumulating data, the " Big Five " cannot be so clearly defined, but rather appear to represent the largest ( or some of the largest ) of a relatively smooth continuum of extinction events.

The Centre's computer system contains the world's largest archive of numerical weather prediction data.

Conversely, if the data are sparse — that is, if only K out of N Fourier coefficients are nonzero — then the complexity can be reduced to O ( K log N log ( N / K )), and this has been demonstrated to lead to practical speedups compared to an ordinary FFT for N / K > 32 in a large-N example ( N = 2 < sup > 22 </ sup >) using a probabilistic approximate algorithm ( which estimates the largest K coefficients to several decimal places ).

A 2006 study from Brazil examined data from testing children during 1930 and 2002 – 2004, the largest time gap ever considered.

Recently, Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers have started moving faster, satellite data show.

The standard organizes the data so the largest temporal term ( the year ) appears first in the data string and progresses to the smallest term ( the second ).

Japanese emigrant communities ( the largest of which are to be found in Brazil, with 1. 4 million to 1. 5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than the 1. 2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language.

In computer networking, the maximum transmission unit ( MTU ) of a communications protocol of a layer is the size ( in bytes ) of the largest protocol data unit that the layer can pass onwards.

One of the largest collections of DECsystem-10 architecture systems ever assembled was at CompuServe, which at its peak operated over 200 loosely-coupled systems in three data centers in Columbus, Ohio.

In the descriptive statistics, the range of a set of data is the difference between the largest and smallest values.

In terms of ethnicity, the 2001 census data reveals that 77. 5 % of Western Australia's population is of European descent: the largest single group was those reporting English ethnicity, accounting for 733, 783 responses ( 32. 7 %), followed by Australian with 624, 259 ( 27. 8 %), Irish with 171, 667 ( 7. 6 %), Italian with 96, 721 ( 4. 3 %), Scottish with 62, 781 ( 2. 8 %), German with 51, 672 ( 2. 3 %) and Chinese with 48, 894 responses ( 2. 2 %).

The largest benefit of layer 4 switching is that the network administrator can configure a layer 4 switch to prioritize data traffic by application, which means a QoS can be defined for each user.

Based on data retrieved by Astron, the largest ultraviolet space telescope of the time, during its Halley's Comet observations in December 1985, a group of Soviet scientists developed a model of the comet's coma.

It is India's largest provider in data center services and also operates India's largest data center in Pune.

Based on IRAS data, Achilles is 135km in diameter and is the 6th largest Jupiter Trojan.

According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data from October 2008, the largest sectors of non-agricultural employment were: Government, 24. 3 %; Trade, Transportation, and Utilities, 17. 3 % ( including 11. 0 % in retail trade ); Professional and Business Services, 11. 9 %; Manufacturing, 10. 9 %; Education and Health Services, 10. 0 % ( including 8. 5 % in Health Care & Social Assistance ); Leisure and Hospitality, 9. 2 %; Financial Activities, 6. 0 %, Natural Resources, Mining and Construction, 5. 1 %; Information, 1. 4 %; and Other services 4. 0 %.

Intuitively, a good separation is achieved by the hyperplane that has the largest distance to the nearest training data point of any class ( so-called functional margin ), since in general the larger the margin the lower the generalization error of the classifier.

The largest cities are ( 2002 census data ) Copiapó ( 125, 983 inhab.

According to 2010 data, Mindelo has a population of 70, 468 inhabitants ( 50, 000 in the mid-1990s ) and is the second largest city in Cape Verde after Praia.

This transformation is defined in such a way that the first principal component has the largest possible variance ( that is, accounts for as much of the variability in the data as possible ), and each succeeding component in turn has the highest variance possible under the constraint that it be orthogonal to ( i. e., uncorrelated with ) the preceding components.

It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

chief engineer of the radio set division of Electric and Musical Industries, Ltd., the largest electronic equipment manufacturer in Great Britain ; ;

He set in motion a historical trajectory that in few decades would lead to one of the largest empires in history.

Following charges of illegal marketing, settlements by two large pharmaceutical companies in the US set records for the largest criminal fines ever imposed on corporations.

The massive stadium did, however, permit the Indians to set the then record for the largest crowd to see a Major League baseball game.

Surprisingly, Cook never sighted the largest island, Rarotonga, and the only island that he personally set foot on was tiny, uninhabited Palmerston Atoll.

When focus is set to the hyperfocal distance, the DOF extends from half the hyperfocal distance to infinity, and the DOF is the largest possible for a given f-number.

* Finding the largest edgeless induced subgraph, or independent set, called the independent set problem ( NP-complete ).

The only way to determine which genes have been acquired vertically and which horizontally is to parsimoniously assume that the largest set of genes that have been inherited together have been inherited vertically ; this requires analyzing a large number of genes.

The development was commenced in mid-2005, and the New Doha International Airport is set to be one of the largest in the world.

In descriptive statistics, summary statistics are used to summarize a set of observations, in order to communicate the largest amount as simply as possible.

The world record for largest bowl of spaghetti was set in March 2009 and reset in March 2010 when a Buca di Beppo restaurant in Garden Grove, California, successfully filled a swimming pool with more than of pasta.

* The largest group of cards you can put together without creating a set is 20.

The single largest undertaking by a Japanese filmmaker at the time, Seven Samurai was a technical and creative watershed that became Japan's highest-grossing movie and set a new standard for the industry.

It set a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $ 14. 75 million in ticket sales.

In general, when there are multiple objects around which a sequence, function, or set accumulates, the inferior and superior limits extract the smallest and largest of them ; the type of object and the measure of size is context-dependent, but the notion of extreme limits is invariant.

:" In 1833, the entrepreneur Vincenzo Florio, a Calabrese by birth and Palermitano by adoption, bought up great swathes of land between the two largest established Marsala producers and set to making his own vintage with even more exclusive range of grape ".

During World War II, Slough experienced a series of air raids, mostly in October 1940 ( the largest number of people, five, dying as a result of one on the 13th ), and an emergency hospital treating casualties from London was set up in Slough.

It took of water to fill the tank to a depth of, making it the largest underwater filming set ever constructed.

Early in September, Cromwell also completed a new set of viceregential injunctions declaring open war on " pilgrimages, feigned relics, or images, or any such superstitions ", and commanding that " one book of the whole Bible of the largest volume in English " be set up in every church.

On a modern fore-and-aft rigged boat the largest sail set on the main-mast is known as the mainsail, rather than main course.

) If formulated in von Neumann – Bernays – Gödel set theory, the surreal numbers are the largest possible ordered field ; all other ordered fields, such as the rationals, the reals, the rational functions, the Levi-Civita field, the superreal numbers, and the hyperreal numbers, are subfields of the surreals ; it has also been shown that the maximal class hyperreal field is isomorphic to the maximal class surreal field.