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figure and value
When Attlee died, his estate was sworn for probate purposes at a value of £ 7, 295, a relatively modest sum for so prominent a figure.
The sum can then be used as a net present value figure.
The estimated value of the whole Arms Park site could be at least GB £ 25 million, although with the " recreational use " requirement, its actual value could be a lot less than that figure.
Using the setup in figure 2, detecting the signal at frequency ω will give a value for or.
Some researchers have attempted to place a dollar figure on ecosystem services, such as the value that the Canadian boreal forest is contributing to global ecosystem services.
The ratio V / I for some point along the nonlinear curve is sometimes called the static, or chordal, or DC, resistance, but as seen in the figure the value of total V over total I varies depending on the particular point along the nonlinear curve which is chosen.
For real-valued functions of several real variables, this holds if and only if the absolute value of the slopes of all secant lines are bounded by K. The set of lines of slope K passing through a point on the graph of the function forms a circular cone, and a function is Lipschitz if and only if the graph of the function everywhere lies completely outside of this cone ( see figure ).
The value of this equation is always a three figure number.
It is of some value as a historical source, especially for prohibited literature, and full of anecdotes, for which it was sieved by the brothers Goncourt, who revived interest in this obscure figure, whom they presented as the anecdotier parfait, the reputation, as the " perfect recounter of anecdote " to the present time.
There, the uncertainty given in parenthesis applies to the least significant figure ( s ) of the number prior to the parenthesized value ( i. e. counting from rightmost digit to left ).
* band A is first significant figure of component value ( left side )
It is named after the first guru of the Sikhs, Guru Nanak Dev, the central figure in Sikhism who was born here, so it is a city of high historic and religious value and is a popular pilgrimage site for Sikhs from all over the world.
If we consider a pulse waveform with a low value, a high value and a duty cycle D ( see figure 1 ), the average value of the waveform is given by:
Fox learned that two years before the figure would have been only 15 percent ; the improvement in survival rates impressed on him the value of cancer research.
Ptolemy's approval of Posidonius's result, rather than Eratosthenes's earlier and more correct figure, caused it to become the accepted value for the Earth's circumference for the next 1, 500 years.
If the price of the tickets rises to an amount that requires him to pay more than the value he places on them, he should figure the change in prospective cost into the decision-making and re-evaluate his decision.
The figure below shows a typical VLAN arrangement with a TPID EtherType value of 0x8100.
Although a small engagement, this had a propaganda value far exceeding the importance of the battle itself, and Rupert became an heroic figure for many young men in the Royalist camp.
One of the most popular action figure lines of the late ' 80s and early ' 90s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figures were produced in such high quantities that the value for most figures would never be higher than a few dollars.
Temperatures can sometimes reach 30. 0 ° C ( 86. 0 ° F ) in the summer, this figure was last achieved on 18 August 2012 and on an average of 17. 1 days the temperature will achieve a value of 25. 1 ° C ( 77. 2 ° F ) or above.
Franklin contends that Millikan's exclusions of data did not affect the final value of e that Millikan obtained but concedes that there was substantial " cosmetic surgery " that Millikan performed which had the effect of reducing the statistical error on e. This enabled Millikan to quote the figure that he had calculated e to better than one half of one percent ; in fact, if Millikan had included all of the data he threw out, it would have been to within 2 %.

figure and farm
Total farm output for this year is officially forecast at 129% of the 1947-49 average, three points higher than the July 1 estimate and exactly equal to the final figure for 1960.
The famous Uruk Vase ( found in a deposit of cult objects of the Uruk III period ) depicts a row of naked men carrying various objects, bowls, vessels, and baskets of farm produce, and bringing sheep and goats, to a female figure facing the ruler.
Edward Scruggs continued to operate a successful farm and was a key figure in the community as part shareholder in the Hillsboro Turnpike Company, which constructed Hillsboro Pike.
When William Gluntz ( Michael Berryman ) goes to the house at night to search for his shoe he accidentally left earlier when sneaking around, he is stabbed through the back by an unseen figure. The following day, William's father and Jim's father and the leader of the Hittites, Isaiah Schmidt ( Ernest Borgnine ) come to the farm looking for William after he does not return home after being sent by his father to retrieve a " lost " shoe.
Dr. Britton treats many pets and farm animals in the Belgreen area and is thus a prominent community figure.
The resultant figure forms the maximum rent the tenant is willing to pay to the lessee of the farm.
In 2010, the issue garnered greater international attention in light of the murder of the far-right political figure Eugène Terre ' Blanche on his farm.
In North America, over 50 % of the population were farm families only a few decades ago ; now, that figure is around 1-2 %, and about 80 % of the population lives in cities.
Exact dates are hard to figure, as buildings such as mill houses and farm houses existed on the site of what is now the village of New Bradwell, long before then.
In 2009 Gaspare Spatuzza, a former Mafia figure turned police informer, claimed that he was told in 1999 that the painting was stolen for a private collector but had been destroyed by rats and pigs while hidden in a farm outbuilding and the remains burned.

figure and terms
Again using the figure, the energy equation in terms of the control volume may be written as:
In terms of land use, it is 20 % arable land, 6. 67 % permanent crops and 73. 33 % other as of a 2005 figure.
( see figure ) The effect was observed to be independent of parameters such as the system size and impurities, and in 1981, theorist Robert Laughlin proposed a theory describing the integer states in terms of a topological invariant called the Chern number.
Already a controversial figure in the clubhouse after his corked-bat incident, Sammy's actions alienated much of his once strong fan base as well as the few teammates still on good terms with him, ( many teammates had tired of Sosa's playing of loud salsa music in the locker room ) and possibly tarnished his place in Cubs ' lore for years to come.
As a figure of 19th century fairy tales, the term gnome by the 20th century became largely synonymous with other terms for the " little people ", such as goblin, brownie, kobold, leprechaun, Heinzelmännchen and other instances of the " domestic spirit " type, losing its strict association with earth or the underground world.
Figures are probably the most variable of all subjects in terms of scale and are often referred to as their metric equivalent ; for example, a 1: 32 scale figure soldier is more commonly described as " 54mm ".
The 2004 General Peace Agreement stipulated that the size of the army would be 24, 000 ( equally drawn from FAM and RENAMO ), but due to lack of interest ( pay and prospective terms of service were poor ) that figure was never reached.
Other writers employ the general terms ground and figure to denote tenor and the vehicle.
As critics have established, the term ' Moor ' referred to dark-skinned people in general, used interchangeably with similarly ambiguous terms as ' African ', ' Ethiopian ', ' Negro ', and even ' Indian ' to designate a figure from Africa ( or beyond ).
An oxymoron ( plural oxymora or oxymorons ) ( from Greek ὀξύμωρον, " sharp dull ") is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.
The same study ranked Pittsburgh 15th of the 69 places in terms of number of residents 25 years or older who have completed a high school degree, with a figure of 84. 7 %.
IV, p. 164 ): " The fundamental tenet of the Vedânta school consisted not in denying the existence of matter, that is solidity, impenetrability, and extended figure ( to deny which would be lunacy ), but in correcting the popular notion of it, and in contending that it has no essence independent of mental perception ; that existence and perceptibility are convertible terms.
The distance s can also be expressed in terms of the line-of-sight distance d ; from the second figure at the right,
Therefore in terms of the true gain ( relative to an isotropic radiator ) G, this figure for the gain is given by:
Warwick had been such an influential figure in 15th-century English politics that, on his death, no one matched him in terms of power and popularity.
The overall figure is projected to rise by almost 4 % annually in real terms over the next few years.
In this book, Turkle tries to figure out why we think of computers in such psychological terms, how this happens and what this means for all of us.
PET is expressed in terms of a depth of water, and can be graphed during the year ( see figure ).
* The superhero / trickster figure of Uncle Sam in Robert Coover's The Public Burning ( 1977, New York, Grove Books ) is described in the following terms ( p. 7 ): " American Autolycus, they called him in the Gospels, referring to his cunning powers of conjuration, transmutation, and magical consumption ( he can play the shell game, not with a mere pea, but with whole tin mines, forests, oil fields, mountain ranges, and just before Thanksgiving this past year made an entire island disappear!
Snyder County took its name in honor of the famous citizen and political figure, Simon Snyder, who was governor of Pennsylvania for three terms, from 1808 to 1817, and made his home in Selinsgrove.
In the United States, price-fixing also includes agreements to hold prices the same, discount prices ( even if based on financial need or income ), set credit terms, agree on a price schedule or scale, adopt a common formula to figure prices, banning price advertising, or agreeing to adhere to prices that one announces.
( In terms of points, one stone is considered to be 13-16 points, but this figure is not constant over levels: the more skillful a player, the greater the usefulness of each stone.
Cecil is a sophisticated and " superior " Londoner who is desirable in terms of rank and class, even though he despises country society ; he is also somewhat of a comic figure in the novel, as he gives himself airs and is quite pretentious.
This doctrine of the Virgin Birth is often represented Christian art in terms of the annunciation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel that she would conceive a child to be born the Son of God, and in Nativity scenes that include the figure of Salome.

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