Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

The Nakamura clan ( South Kuril Ainu on their paternal side ) are the smallest and numbers just 6 people residing in Petropavlovsk.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

Niven also occasionally refers to arcologies in his Known Space series, particularly in the stories involving Gil Hamilton, or the Pierson's Puppeteers, whose arcologies are enormous ( The smallest were cubes a mile in height, length and width.

These are the smallest of the AC enzyme classes ; the AC-IV from Yersinia is a dimer of 19 kDa subunits with no known regulatory components.

For example, the smallest pair of amicable numbers is ( 220, 284 ); for the proper divisors of 220 are 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55 and 110, of which the sum is 284 ; and the proper divisors of 284 are 1, 2, 4, 71 and 142, of which the sum is 220.

The largest bone in the human body is the femur and the smallest bones are auditory ossicles.

In this case, is the smallest σ-algebra that contains the open intervals of R. While there are many Borel measures μ, the choice of Borel measure which assigns for every interval is sometimes called " the " Borel measure on R. In practice, even " the " Borel measure is not the most useful measure defined on the σ-algebra of Borel sets ; indeed, the Lebesgue measure is an extension of " the " Borel measure which possesses the crucial property that it is a complete measure ( unlike the Borel measure ).

The smallest bee is Trigona minima, a stingless bee whose workers are about 2. 1 mm ( 5 / 64 ") long.

By the well ordering principle, if there are positive integers that satisfy a given property, then there is a smallest positive integer that satisfies that property ; therefore, there is a smallest positive integer satisfying the property " not definable in under eleven words ".

The " inert " or noble chemical elements ( helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon and radon ) are composed of lone atoms as their smallest discrete unit, but the other isolated chemical elements consist of either molecules or networks of atoms bonded to each other in some way.

Instead, these substances are discussed in terms of formula units or unit cells as the smallest repeating structure within the substance.

Cheirogaleids are smaller than the other lemurs and, in fact, they are the smallest primates.

They are the smallest of the anthropoid ( i. e. simian ) primates.

The species we see today are but the smallest part of what blind destiny has produced ...

The smallest such value of k is called the Lipschitz constant of f. Contractive maps are sometimes called Lipschitzian maps.

The smallest crossbows are pistol crossbows.

Calderas on Earth are the smallest of all planetary bodies and vary from 1. 6 to 80 km as a maximum ( Gottsmann 2008 ).

Awards are usually of the smallest amount, usually 1 cent or similar.

The smallest and largest drums without snares, such as octobans and gong drums, are sometimes considered toms and sometimes not, and if not there are many borderline cases.

Genome sequencing reveals that obligate bacterial endosymbionts of insects have among the smallest of known bacterial genomes and have lost many genes that are commonly found in closely related bacteria.

The bandy stick should be crooked and the bend of the blade is split up into 5 different dimensions, where 1 has the smallest bend and 5 has the most.

If S is an arbitrary set, then the set S < sup > N </ sup > of all sequences in S becomes a complete metric space if we define the distance between the sequences ( x < sub > n </ sub >) and ( y < sub > n </ sub >) to be, where N is the smallest index for which x < sub > N </ sub > is distinct from y < sub > N </ sub >, or 0 if there is no such index.

The greatest common divisor g of two nonzero numbers a and b is also their smallest positive integral linear combination, that is, the smallest positive number of the form ua + vb where u and v are integers.

Before the 2008 season, Fenway Park's capacity was increased to 37, 373, where it remains following additional renovations for the 2009 season, making its total capacity the fourth smallest, ahead of Marlins Park, the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, and Tropicana Field.

The number of normalized floating point numbers in a system F ( B, P, L, U ) ( where B is the base of the system, P is the precision of the system to P numbers, L is the smallest exponent representable in the system, and U is the largest exponent used in the system ) is:

* gcd ( a, b ), where a and b are not both zero, may be defined alternatively and equivalently as the smallest positive integer d which can be written in the form d = a · p + b · q where p and q are integers.

Coarser grains were numbered as sulfur-free gunpowder ( SFG n ): ' SFG 12 ', ' SFG 20 ', ' SFG 40 ' and ' SFG 90 ', for example ; where the number represents the smallest BSS sieve mesh size on which no grains were retained.

The points on the two branches that are closest to each other are called the vertices ; they are the points where the curve has its smallest radius of curvature.

Second and third generation designs dramatically improved accuracy to the point where even the smallest point targets can be successfully attacked.

Given the definition of morpheme as " the smallest meaningful unit " Nanosyntax aims to account for idioms where it is often an entire syntactic tree which contributes " the smallest meaningful unit.

Other cases where the " smallest meaningful unit " is larger than a word include some collocations such as " in view of " and " business intelligence " where the words together have a specific meaning.

The same applies to computer maps where the smallest unit is the pixel.

A consequence of the theorem is that the order of any element a of a finite group ( i. e. the smallest positive integer number k with a < sup > k </ sup > = e, where e is the identity element of the group ) divides the order of that group, since the order of a is equal to the order of the cyclic subgroup generated by a.

Non-Gaussian beams also exhibit this effect, but a Gaussian beam is a special case where the product of width and divergence is the smallest possible.

At the centre of the macula is the foveal pit where the cones are smallest and in a hexagonal mosaic, the most efficient and highest density.

Confronted by a Puritan friend with rumours about his " ungodly life ", Dudley defended himself in 1576: I stand on the top of the hill, where ... the smallest slip seemeth a fall ...

If one counts in Gray code of a bit size equal to the number of disks in a particular Tower of Hanoi, begins at zero, and counts up, then the bit changed each move corresponds to the disk to move, where the least-significant-bit is the smallest disk and the most-significant-bit is the largest.

Luckily, there is a rule which does say where to move the smallest disk to.

In general, for a puzzle with n disks, there are 3 < sup > n </ sup > nodes in the graph ; every node has three edges to other nodes, except the three corner nodes, which have two: it is always possible to move the smallest disk to the one of the two other pegs ; and it is possible to move one disk between those two pegs except in the situation where all disks are stacked on one peg.

where is the machine epsilon of the computer, that is, the smallest number such that in the floating point arithmetics of the computer,.

: where k is the smallest natural number such that a < sub > k </ sub > ≠ b < sub > k </ sub >; the distance between two equal sequences is of course zero.