The designs were by Hugh Iorys Hughes who developed his " Hippo " piers and " Crocodile " bridge units on the Conwy Morfa, using 1, 000 men to build the trial version ; the Hamilton " Swiss Roll " which consisted of a floating roadway made of waterproofed canvas stiffened with slats and tensioned by cables ; and a system of flexible bridging units supported on floating pontoons designed by Major Allan Beckett, Royal Engineers.

However the final choice of design was determined by a storm during which the " Swiss Roll " was washed away and the " Hippos " were undermined while Beckett's floating roadway ( subsequently codenamed ' Whale ') survived undamaged.

A Whale floating roadway leading to a Spud pier at Mulberry A off Omaha Beach

But it was something to have seen it floating down through the early morning sunshine, linking the blue of the sky with the blue of the asters by the lake.

`` Remember the French railroad baron who was going to take me floating down the Nile ''??

I was drunk with excitement and the smell of gunpowder that came floating down from the road, and the fact that I was not afraid now, but only waiting to know what to do next.

An extended cold spell caused ice to build up on the aerator which was mounted on a floating platform and caused the entire platform to sink lower in the water.

In her wanderings, Leto found the newly created floating island of Delos, which was neither mainland nor a real island.

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.

Air felted to create the flat disk of the earth, which he said was table-like and behaved like a leaf floating on air.

It was also referred to as FP ( from " floating point ") because of the command used to invoke it instead of INT for Integer BASIC.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

This Aeolus lived on the floating island of Aeolia and was visited by Odysseus and his crew in the Odyssey.

By having separate units, it was possible to operate on more than one floating point instruction at once.

However, floating ice was additionally observed near Świnoujście harbour in January 2010.

It is also said in myth that floating rocks known as the Symplegades or Clashing Rocks once crushed any ship that attempted passage of the Bosphorus until the hero Jason obtained passage, whereupon the rocks became fixed, and Greek access to the Black Sea was opened.

The island then was not the popular tourist destination it later became ; the author George Woodbury described it as " no city of homes ; it was a place of temporary sojourn and refreshment for a literally floating population ," continuing, " The only permanent residents were the piratical camp followers, the traders, and the hangers-on ; all others were transient.

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.

Thus the P5 was integer superscalar but not floating point superscalar.

The larger ship was essentially an elaborate floating palace that counted marble floors and plumbing among its amenities.

While the 6x86's integer performance was significantly higher than P5 Pentium's, it's floating point performance was more mediocre — between 2 and 4 times the performance of the 486 FPU per clock cycle ( depending on the operation and precision ).

The 6x86's and MII's old generation " 486 class " floating point unit combined with an integer section that was at best on-par with the newer P6 and K6 chips meant that Cyrix could no longer compete in performance.

Digital considered using a combined register file, but a split register file was determined to be better as it enabled two-chip implementations to have a register file located on each chip and integer-only implementations to omit the floating-point register file containing the floating point registers.

When a Ghyben-Herzberg lens is fully formed, its floating nature will push a freshwater head above mean sea level, and if the island is wide enough, the depth of the lens below mean sea level will be 40 times the height of the water table above sea level.

* 1972: Westinghouse and Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock jointly formed Offshore Power Systems to build floating nuclear power plants for Public Service Electric and Gas Company.

He possessed the wisdom of the ages from birth, for he was in his mother's womb for seven hundred and thirty years, while she was floating in the sea and while the earth was formed.

Slush is a floating mass formed initially from snow and water.

This technique enables the levitation of an object against gravitational force by floating on a thin gas film formed by gas flow through a porous membrane.

However, it is also possible that these " free floating planets " could have formed in the same manner as stars.

The British 46th Infantry Division formed a floating reserve, but it did

After his return, Wilson and Hannaford formed the more experimentally-oriented Sons of the Vegetal Mother ( 1969 – 71 ); this was an occasional event-based project, rather than a full-time band, and Rudd played bass in its floating lineup on numerous occasions.

During the winter, the RCMP officers who formed her crew would use dog sleds to turn the St. Roch into a floating RCMP outpost.

He is floating in mid air in a vast dark room filled with uncountable numbers of human bodies, some of which are only half formed.

The floating garden beds are formed by extensive manual labor.

Pickford designed the " Worm " boss similar to the bosses found in R-Type, where a series of smaller sprites formed a snake or worm-like enemy ; however, he commented that " it ended up in the game more like a giant floating head ".

Salas y Gómez is the fourth youngest mountain in the chain, which is being formed by the Nazca Plate floating over the Easter hotspot.

Near the arts and crafts fair in Pajuçara is also where the rafts leave for the natural pools formed by choral reefs, where the tourist will find floating bars.

Following the Neoglaciation, the Jakobshavn outlet formed a floating ice tongue around 2000 years before present.

In this way was formed a broad disk of earth, floating on the circumambient air.

A strange wood creature came floating up from a patch of berry bushes.

The tungara frog ( Physalaemus pustulosus ) builds a floating nest from foam to protect its eggs.

Vegetation may be totally submersed, have floating leaves, or protrude from the water.

In the recent years prior to 2011, Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea were frozen with solid ice near the Baltic coast and dense floating ice far from it.

This proved to be a significant impediment for some software developers, since many of the applications that benefit from SIMD primarily deal with floating point numbers.

Particle sedimentation ( and also floating, although this phenomenon is less common ) arises from a difference in the density of the dispersed and of the continuous phase.

In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.

The group locate the City, which is in fact a floating arsenal powered by advanced technology and inhabited by a people originally from Corum's world and his distant kin.

The process of transformation in the film is David Bowman transitioning through various human ages, first from young man to a dying elderly man, the latter finally transforming into a floating fetus.

His fate remains unknown, since he only appears as a floating head from another plane of existence.

To derive the value of the floating point number, one must multiply the significand by the base raised to the power of the exponent, equivalent to shifting the radix point from its implied position by a number of places equal to the value of the exponent — to the right if the exponent is positive or to the left if the exponent is negative.

A third form of mooring system is the ballasted catenary configuration, created by adding multiple-tonne weights hanging from the midsection of each anchor cable in order to provide additional cable tension and therefore increase stiffness of the above-water floating structure.

Hydras may also move by amoeboid motion of their bases or by simply detaching from the substrate and floating away in the current.

But the ship that is floating on the ocean for a couple of years does have different properties from the original.

Working in his parents ' apartment in 1936, his first attempt, called the Z1, was a floating point binary mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from a perforated 35 mm film.

In 1972 a team of zoologists from Yorkshire's Flamingo Park Zoo had gone out in search of the legendary monster and soon discovered a large body floating in the water.

An out-of-body experience ( OBE or sometimes OOBE ) is an experience that typically involves a sensation of floating outside of one's body and, in some cases, perceiving one's physical body from a place outside one's body ( autoscopy ).

Most accounts agree that she found the barren floating island of Delos, still bearing its archaic name of Asterios, which was neither mainland nor a real island, and gave birth there, promising the island wealth from the worshippers who would flock to the obscure birthplace of the splendid god who was to come.

* Without an MDI frame window, floating toolbars from one application can clutter the workspace of other applications, potentially confusing users with the jumble of interfaces.

The Hawke / Keating governments of 1983 – 1996 pursued economic policies and restructuring such as floating the Australian dollar in 1983, reducing tariffs on imports, taxation reforms, moving from centralised wage-fixing to enterprise bargaining, privatisation of publicly-owned companies such as Qantas and the Commonwealth Bank, and deregulation of the banking system.

The early versions of 60-100 MHz P5 Pentiums had a problem in the floating point unit that resulted in incorrect ( but predictable ) results from some division operations.