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Yet though the Southern States lost the worst errors in their case, they did not lose the truth they fought for.
There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.
NP-completeness only refers to the run-time of the worst case instances.
In his view, the " worst case scenario " of the currency never returning to the country of origin was actually the best possible outcome: the country actually purchased its goods by exchanging them for pieces of cheaply made paper.
The fastest impacts occur at more than 80 km / s in the " worst case " scenario which the asteroid hits the earth in a retrograde parabolic orbit ( because kinetic energy scales as velocity squared, earth's gravity only contributes 1 km / s to this figure, not 11 km / s ).
Failure to do so can lead to bugs, slow performance, and at worst case, takeover by viruses and malicious software.
In the field of numerical analysis, the condition number of a function with respect to an argument measures the asymptotically worst case of how much the function can change in proportion to small changes in the argument.
Using to denote the size of the original grammar, the size blow-up in the worst case may range from to, depending on the transformation algorithm used.
Chapman's death occurred on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the first broadcast of Flying Circus, and Jones called it " the worst case of party-pooping in all history ".
Following the arrival of Europeans, La Hispaniola's indigenous population suffered near-extinction, in possibly the worst case of depopulation in the Americas.
Introsort is an interesting alternative to heapsort that combines quicksort and heapsort to retain advantages of both: worst case speed of heapsort and average speed of quicksort.
The following time complexities are amortized ( worst-time ) time complexity for entries marked by an asterisk, and regular worst case time complexities for all other entries.
Its worst case cost is proportional to the number of elements in the list ; and so is its expected cost, if all list elements are equally likely to be searched for.
Minimax ( sometimes minmax ) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case ( maximum loss ) scenario.
Eventually, in the worst case, too much of the available memory may become allocated and all or part of the system or device stops working correctly, the application fails, or the system slows down unacceptably due to thrashing.
In the worst case, old copies can literally crumble into small particles when handled.
When merging two lists of length m, there is a lower bound of 2m − 1 comparisons required in the worst case.
The worst case for this problem is simply that all of the unreliable edges fail and the problem reduces to the usual Shortest Path Problem.
Arguably, the worst case is when only one party is guilty: here, the innocent one is unlikely to confess, while the guilty one is likely to confess and testify against the innocent.
A related enhancement in the Pentium is the ability to read a contiguous block from the code cache even when it is split between two cache lines ( at least 17 bytes in worst case ).
Pilots of surviving or reproduction aircraft fitted with rotary engines still find, however, that the blip switch is useful while landing rotary-engined aircraft, as it allows pilots a more reliable, quicker source of power in case it should be needed, rather than risking a sudden engine stall at the worst possible moment.
Since operations such as inserting, deleting, and finding values require worst-case time proportional to the height of the tree, this theoretical upper bound on the height allows red – black trees to be efficient in the worst case, unlike ordinary binary search trees.
The worst case occurs when all nodes in a colored binary tree are black, the best case occurs when only a third of them are black ( and the other two thirds are red nodes ).

worst and is
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.
In most of the less developed countries, however, such programing is at best inadequate and at worst nonexistent.
It is proposed that in 10 years all commercial timberlands, all critical watersheds, and other lands in the National Forest System developed or proposed for intensive use will be given protection from fire adequate to meet the fire situation in the worst years and under serious peak loads.
Certainly there would be less anxiety, fewer accidents ( it is the clumsy child who sustains the worst injuries ), and higher scholastic averages, since alert children work better.
In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.
" At its worst, Scheler says, " love for the small, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed is really disguised hatred, repressed envy, an impulse to detract, etc., directed against the opposite phenomena: wealth, strength, power, largesse.
The emotional effects of anxiety may include " feelings of apprehension or dread, trouble concentrating, feeling tense or jumpy, anticipating the worst, irritability, restlessness, watching ( and waiting ) for signs ( and occurrences ) of danger, and, feeling like your mind's gone blank " as well as " nightmares / bad dreams, obsessions about sensations, deja vu, a trapped in your mind feeling, and feeling like everything is scary.
" But ," as Sumner shrewdly said, " the President himself is his own worst counsellor, as he is his own worst defender.
In the early 21st century, Johnson is among those commonly mentioned as the worst presidents in U. S. history.
It is ' Arguably the worst disaster ever to occur on British railways '.
Lookup, insertion, and deletion all take O ( log n ) time in both the average and worst cases, where n is the number of nodes in the tree prior to the operation.
That Athens had the worst of it in this war is certain.
Another famous character was Joe Btfsplk, who wants to be a loving friend but is " the world's worst jinx ," bringing bad luck to all those nearby.
While this is intended as a clever con trick, the machine, surprisingly, works, sending Blackadder and Baldrick back to the time of the dinosaurs, where they manage to cause the extinction of the dinosaurs, through the use of Baldrick's best, worst and only pair of underpants as a weapon against a hungry T. Rex.
The worst thing is that she will suffer.
As for insomnia, they may also be used on an irregular /" as-needed " basis, such as in cases where said anxiety is at its worst.
In its worst form, crony capitalism can devolve into simple corruption, where any pretense of a free market is dispensed with.
Since there is no evidence that late Maastrichtian nonavian dinosaurs could burrow, swim or dive, they were unable to shelter themselves from the worst parts of any environmental stress that occurred at the K – T boundary.
The situation is the opposite with regard to repellents ( fully methylated MCPs respond best to repellents, while least methylated MCPs respond worst to repellents ).
" A Scots rabble is the worst of its kind ", he reported.

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