This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

In no other situation would a group of doctors, struggling competently to improve the life expectancy of a man beloved by the world, be subjected to such merciless and persistent questioning, and before they were prepared to demonstrate the kind of verbal precision which alone can clarify for mankind the problems it faces.

In his recent evaluation of Kennedy's potentialities for leadership, Walter Lippmann has cited the `` precision '' of his mind, his `` immense command '' of factual detail, and his `` instinct for the crucial point '' as impressive in the extreme ; ;

Carbon resistors and impurity-doped germanium resistors have been investigated for use as precision secondary thermometers in the liquid helium temperature region.

With its history standing astride all but the very beginnings of the industrial revolution, Brown & Sharpe has become over the years a singular monument to the mechanical foresight of its founder, Joseph R. Brown, and a world-renowned synonym for precision and progress in metalworking technology.

Mr. Sharpe's arrival in the business did indeed provide what Mr. Brown had most coveted -- time for `` tinkering '', and the opportunity of carrying out in the back room those developments in precision graduation which most interested him at that time.

As one development followed another, the company's reputation for precision in the graduating field brought it broader and broader opportunities for expansion in precision manufacture.

If we fail to develop the means to hunt down and destroy the enemy's military force with extreme care and precision, and if war comes in spite of our most ardent desires for peace, our choice of alternatives will be truly frightening.

The SCR process, with its precision corner-posts, its precision guide lines, its working level scaffold, and its hand-level brick supply takes eight manhours to get set, but once ready it makes it easy for bricklayers to lay a thousand bricks a day.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

Because of his brain injury and the extreme damage suffered to his sight, the patient had to train himself for a new line of work, that of a portfolio-maker, an occupation requiring a great deal of precision in the making of measurements and a fairly well-developed sense of form and contour.

The dances were as beautiful as anything I have ever seen -- they rival the New York Rockettes for scenery and precision as well as imagination.

In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

Therefore, due to impossibility for precision, there is confusion about what interpretations can be culturally negotiated.

Abbe numbers are only a useful measure of dispersion for visible light, and for other wavelengths, or for higher precision work, the group velocity dispersion is used.

Each tip of the " Y " of an antibody contains a paratope ( a structure analogous to a lock ) that is specific for one particular epitope ( similarly analogous to a key ) on an antigen, allowing these two structures to bind together with precision.

For example, autopilot systems that are prolific today were started to help bomber planes fly steadily enough to hit precision targets from high altitudes.

For example, the IBM System / 370 used a CPU that was primarily 32 bit, but it used 128-bit precision inside its floating point units to facilitate greater accuracy and range in floating point numbers.

Using base-10 ( the familiar decimal notation ) as an example, the number 152853. 5047, which has ten decimal digits of precision, is represented as the significand 1528535047 together with an exponent of 5 ( if the implied position of the radix point is after the first most significant digit, here 1 ).

The U. S. National Center for Health Statistics for example, deliberately oversamples from minority populations in many of its nationwide surveys in order to gain sufficient precision for estimates within these groups.

However, when decimal representation is used for the rational or real numbers, such numbers in general have an infinite number of representations, for example 2. 31 can also be written as 2. 310, 2. 3100000, 2. 309999999 …, etc., all of which have the same meaning except for some scientific and other contexts where greater precision is implied by a larger number of figures shown.

With its four arms attached with a combination of different active agents, for example, iRNA ( for gene silencing ), microRNA ( for gene expression regulation ), aptamer ( for targeting ) and ribozyme ( as catalyst ), the X-shaped RNA can achieve therapeutic and diagnostic functions by regulating gene expression and cellular function, and binding to cancer cells with precision, enhanced by its polyvalent nature and synergistic effects by design.

Cutting plotters are often relied upon for precision cutting of graphics produced by wide-format inkjet printers, however-for example to produce window or car graphics, or shaped stickers.

Very high-speed or precision controls may also require customized solutions ; for example, aircraft flight controls.

An example of a reference thermometer used to check others to industrial standards would be a platinum resistance thermometer with a digital display to 0. 1 ° C ( its precision ) which has been calibrated at 5 points against national standards (− 18, 0, 40, 70, 100 ° C ) and which is certified to an accuracy of ± 0. 2 ° C.

For example, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that one cannot simultaneously know, with arbitrarily high precision, both the position and momentum of a particle.

On the other hand, in the high-precision domain ( for example, where 14 or more bits of precision are needed ), analog circuits require much more power and area than digital equivalents.

For example, if an experiment contains a systematic error, then increasing the sample size generally increases precision but does not improve accuracy.

For example, a bit-wise example of a IEEE floating-point standard single precision ( 32-bit ) NaN would be: < span style =" white-space: nowrap ;"> s111 1111 1axx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx </ span > where s is the sign ( most often ignored in applications ), a determines the type of NaN, and x is an extra payload ( most often ignored in applications ).

The example multiplies two arrays of single precision floating point numbers.

For example the Wide Area Augmentation System ( WAAS ) operated by the Federal Aviation Administration is used as a precision navigation tool for commercial aviation in North America.

The United States Army Air Force ( USAAF ) officially only bombed precision targets over Europe, but for example, when 316 B-17 Flying Fortresses bombed Dresden in a follow-up raid at around noon on the 14 February 1945, because of cloud the later waves bombed using H2X radar for targeting.

For example, when a precision scientific instrument is subjected to a moderate shock, good metrology practice may be to have it recalibrated before further use.

An example of a precision dual frequency echosounder, the Teledyne Odom MkIII

This might require quite bizarre laws of physics ( for example, a measurable physical constant with an oracular value, such as Chaitin's constant ), and would at minimum require the ability to measure a real-valued physical value to arbitrary precision despite thermal noise and quantum effects.

For example, it is used to produce coins, medals, badges, buttons, precision-energy springs and precision parts with small or polished surface features.

The precision of location varies, for example a simple town plan may use a simple grid system with single letters for Eastings and single numbers for Northings.

To simplify things, assume our computer only has two digits of precision ( for example, numbers can be represented as 2. 3, 77, 100, 110, 120, etc., but not 12. 3 or 177 ).

Some relations have been shown to hold to very high precision, but no formal proof has yet been found ; one example is:

And this, of course, is exactly what Madison Avenue has been accused of doing albeit in a primitive way, with its `` hidden persuaders '' and what the space merchants accomplish with much greater sophistication and precision.

The Deerstalker points with the ease, speed and precision of a fine imported double shotgun, and its trigger pull is light and sharp.

My aim in mentioning this factor obviously is not to give license to `` wild therapy '' but rather to encourage us to use the time-honored clinical casework skills we already possess, and to use them with greater confidence, precision, and professional pride.

if it is somber, it is also precise, and the precision lends authority to the vision.

A precision transit is set up so that it is aligned with respect to true north.

It is worth mentioning that the Nepōhualtzintzin amounted to the rank from 10 to the 18 in floating point, which calculated stellar as well as infinitesimal amounts with absolute precision, meant that no round off was allowed, when translated into modern computer arithmetic.

This algorithm is much less prone to loss of precision due to massive cancellation, but might not be as efficient because of the division operation inside the loop.

While this loss of precision may be tolerable and viewed as a minor flaw of Algorithm I, it is easy to find data that reveal a major flaw in the naive algorithm: Take the sample to be ( 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 4, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 7, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 13, 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > + 16 ).

One benefit is that the statistical moment calculations can be carried out to arbitrary accuracy such that the computations can be tuned to the precision of, e. g., the data storage format or the original measurement hardware.

Antigen ( ic ) specificity is the ability of the host cells to recognize an antigen specifically as a unique molecular entity and distinguish it from another with exquisite precision.

Today automated flight control is common to reduce pilot error and workload at key times like landing or takeoff. Autopilot was first invented by Lawrence Sperry during World War II to fly bomber planes steady enough to hit precision targets from 25, 000 feet.

Premultiplied alpha has some practical advantages over normal alpha blending because premultiplied alpha blending is associative and linear interpolation gives better results, although premultiplication can cause a loss of precision and, in extreme cases, a noticeable loss of quality.

Analytical chemistry research is largely driven by performance ( sensitivity, selectivity, robustness, linear range, accuracy, precision, and speed ), and cost ( purchase, operation, training, time, and space ).

This precision is not built-in, but learned by trial and error.

The evolution of baseball from older bat-and-ball games is difficult to trace with precision.

The exact splitting algorithm is implementation dependent, only the flatness criteria must be respected to reach the necessary precision and to avoid non-monotonic local changes of curvature.

This is inefficient as there exists also approximations of all Bézier curves using arcs of circles or ellipses, which can be rendered incrementally with arbitrary precision.

Related to number representation is the size and precision of numbers that a CPU can represent.

The number of bits ( or numeral places ) a CPU uses to represent numbers is often called " word size ", " bit width ", " data path width ", or " integer precision " when dealing with strictly integer numbers ( as opposed to floating point ).