Some accounts are quite lengthy but Florida's is the shortest of all, requiring only four paragraphs.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

More formally, the complexity of a string is the length of the shortest possible description of the string in some fixed universal description language ( the sensitivity of complexity relative to the choice of description language is discussed below ).

The program tries every string, starting with the shortest, until it finds a string with complexity at least n ( if there is one ), then returns that string ( or goes into an infinite loop if there is no such string ).

In the 1990s, Jürgen Schmidhuber described an algorithmic theory of beauty which takes the subjectivity of the observer into account and postulates: among several observations classified as comparable by a given subjective observer, the aesthetically most pleasing one is the one with the shortest description, given the observer ’ s previous knowledge and his particular method for encoding the data.

The Constitution of India is the longest written constitution of any sovereign country in the world, containing 444 articles, 12 schedules and 94 amendments, with 117, 369 words in its English language version, while the United States Constitution is the shortest written constitution, at 7 articles and 27 amendments.

Conditions can be very crowded it is advisable to pre-book a cabin for all but the shortest of trips.

It is the shortest among 43, 589, 145, 600 possible tours visiting each city exactly once.

Carrying over 81, 000 vehicles daily, it is also the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1. 63 miles ( 8, 600 feet / 2, 622 m ).

December is the month with the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the longest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere.

It is one of the shortest books in the Bible, being only 25 verses long.

The components of the primary are becoming closer together and will not be divisible in amateur telescopes beginning in 2015. δ Equ is a binary star with an orbital period of 5. 7 years, which at one time was the shortest known orbital period for an optical binary.

It is the shortest of Paul's extant letters, consisting of only 335 words in the original Greek text and 25 verses in modern English translations.

It is the shortest month and the only month with fewer than 30 days.

* 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes ; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

In graph theory, the girth of a graph is the length of a shortest cycle contained in the graph.

The element is the length of a shortest path between x and y ; if there is no such path

The radius of curvature of the ellipsoid varies with latitude, being the longest at the pole and the shortest at the equator as is the nautical mile.

* Route Nationale # 8 ( RN8 ) is by far the shortest of the National Roads.

However, many of the minor substances in honey can be affected greatly by heating, changing the flavor, aroma, or other properties, so heating is usually done at the lowest temperature possible for the shortest amount of time.

Doing this by brute force – accelerating in the shortest route to the destination and then, if it is farther from the Sun, decelerating to match the planet's speed – would require an extremely large amount of fuel.

The cooking conserves a maximum of the vitamin C content of vegetables by methods which use very little water and cook in the shortest time possible.

But if this is so, the man of sin must, at the shortest, reign three hundred and fifty years, in order that we may compute that which is said by the holy Daniel --' and times '-- to be two times only .”

Mitotic cyclins, which persist in the cell for only a few minutes, have one of the shortest life spans of all intracellular proteins.

#: Geodesics are curves on a surface which give the shortest distance between two points.

Midsummer takes place over the shortest night of the year, which is the summer solstice, or on a nearby date that varies with tradition.

At this point the ant which completed the shortest tour deposits virtual pheromone along its complete tour route ( global trail updating ).

This replaces the original graph with a complete graph in which the inter-city distance is replaced by the shortest path between and in the original graph.

Waves along and close to this shortest route will thus dominate and AB < sub > 0 </ sub > will be the route along which the light is seen to travel.

The Pader, which flows entirely within the city of Paderborn, is considered Germany's shortest river.

This map indicates the subnets which each IS-IS router can reach, and the lowest-cost ( shortest ) path to a subnet is used to forward traffic.

:: Note: In networks that are based upon the partially connected mesh topology, the data that is transmitted between nodes in the network takes many shortest paths between nodes using a technology like Shortest Path Bridging, except in the case of a failure or break in one of the links, in which case the network uses the remaining alternative paths to the destination.

* Younger Purples: A tradition in which a certain member of each house ( traditionally the shortest person is chosen ) are given the purple gown on days when it is a charity non uniform day.

The Earth is not a perfect sphere, it is an oblate spheroid or ellipsoid ( i. e. – slightly compressed at the poles ), which means that the shortest distance between two points ( a geodesic ) is not quite a great circle.

Laws such as that forbidding Jews to own property and allowing them only the shortest possible time in which to sell what they owned, and that requiring all Roman residents to listen to Catholic catechism commentary, led many of Rome's Jews to emigrate, to Trieste, Lombardy and Tuscany.

Bacup is home to the long Elgin Street which held the record as the shortest street in the world until November 2006, when it was surpassed by Ebenezer Place, in the Scottish Highlands.

Only when coming back from Magadan to Vanino with a low load and in good weather would the ships travel along the shortest route, i. e., via the Amur Liman, Nevelskoy Strait, and the Strait of Tartary proper ( which, incidentally, SASCO calls the " Strait of Sakhalin "-Sakhalinsky Proliv ).

The Dayr, which is the shortest rainy season, lasts from October to December.

Matters which concern the transfer of power and other things will be executed by careful means and in the shortest possible time.

Within four months after the Congress submitted it to the states, the amendment was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, the shortest time in which any proposed amendment has received the number of ratifications needed for adoption.

The shortest replacement schedule is single use ( 1-day or daily disposable ) lenses which are disposed of each night.

They state that these were originally the seven days each year ( either side of the shortest day of the year ) during which Alcyone ( as a kingfisher ) laid her eggs and made her nest on the beach and during which her father Aeolus, god of the winds, restrained the winds and calmed the waves so she could do so in safety.

In the shortest of them ( 43 pages as of 2009 ), which he titles " Apology for the Proof of the Riemann Hypothesis " ( using the word " apology " in the rarely used sense of apologia ), he claims to use his tools on the theory of Hilbert spaces of entire functions to prove the Riemann Hypothesis for Dirichlet L-functions ( thus proving GRH ) and a similar statement for the Euler zeta function, and even to be able to assert that zeros are simple.