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 ).

While his system was less " scientific " than that of J. P. Lesley, it's other key features – notation, specificity, and versatility – make it deserving of the praise it has received.

While for p equal to 0 we assume that it's equal to the geometric mean ( which is, in fact, the limit of means with exponents approaching zero ):

While these statistics may be accurate, and can show trends, it's inappropriate in most countries to assume that because a particular race has a high crime or low literacy rate, that the entire race of people are inherent criminals, or inherently unintelligent.

As of the 2009 release of The Proposal, Mark Kermode said she's made only three " good " films in her career — Speed, While You Were Sleeping, and Crash, and says " she's funny, she's gorgeous, it's impossible not to love her and yet she makes rotten film after rotten film after rotten film.

While it's true that the initial problems in the design may be tested by only five users, when the method is properly applied, the parts of the design that worked in that initial test will go on to be tested by 50 to 100 people.

While it's obvious that a block was a success when the attacker is roofed, a block that consistently forces the attacker away from his or her ' power ' or preferred attack into a more easily controlled shot by the defense is also a highly successful block.

While they may through sheer exposure become involved in causes or controversies ( as Paris Hilton did in the US presidential election, 2008 ) it's clearly not correct to label all individually unique talent or economic value as being an " intellectual " asset.

While coveting your neighbor's wife may involve sexual desire, it's unlikely that coveting a neighbor's house or field is sexual in nature.

" While the Food and Drug act remains a foundational law of the FDA mission, it's not the law that created the FDA.

While Charles ' father and lawyers are on the phone with her pleading to settle quickly, Jean says she doesn't want any money at all, just for Pike to tell her it's over to her face.

While the use of the word commando came to refer to various elite special operations forces units in other countries in the world, South Africa retained it's original use as well as naming special operations forces units in this fashion.

While NBC has since stopped it's youth-based comedies, both Nick and Disney continue the practice.

While the buyer ’ s identity remains anonymous, rumor has it he hails from Russia ( the land of record-breaking billionaire home buyers ) but insiders say it's a combination of a past and present resident in the coal and oil industry.

" Terry Sawyer of Pop Matters Online commented " While it's been said that Brandy's voice isn't exactly a barn burner, it's not mentioned enough that she does more than enough with what she's got.

While it's not known for sure who his biological father was, some researchers have theorized that his name was Patrick McCarty, Michael McCarty, William McCarty, or Edward McCarty.

While straight news stories always stay in third person point of view, it's not uncommon for a feature article to slip into first person.

While CSSSA is open to qualifying California students, CAP, as it's commonly known, is a service provided to students living within underprivileged communities in the Los Angeles County school system.

While John Lennon, Ringo Starr, George Harrison, and Fonda himself were under the influence of LSD, Lennon heard Fonda say, " I know what it's like to be dead ".

While the Spanish language itself uses a very phonemic spelling ( written as it's pronounced ), the romanised spelling created for Philippine languages was even more so.

While attending an August 20, 2007, ceremony inducting four members into the Alabama Academy of Honor, Lee responded to an invitation to address the audience with " Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool.

The article stated " While the band are back on friendly terms with Alan, it's unlikely we'll see any future reunion, with Quo continuing as normal and Lancaster busy with charity events and overseeing the activities of his son's band The Presence ".

Sparrow criticises the film by saying " While film was visually one of the best pieces of eye-candy I have seen in a year or so, it's ultimately a voice track over a sequence of pretty pictures.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

While the Persians were contesting each other in Iran, the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga (" grand assembly ") to select a leader among his people.

While their devout teacher, Lehrer Lämpel, is busy at church, the boys invade his home and fill his favorite pipe with gunpowder.

While Abdul took a break from the music industry, she remained busy behind the scenes.

While Paraguayans were busy fighting among themselves during the 1920s, Bolivians established a series of forts in the Paraguayan Chaco.

While the Assyrians were busy at the Persian Gulf, the Elamites invaded northern Babylonia in a complete surprise.

While Lampley was busy covering the trophy presentation, Bob Costas ( who also interviewed Dallas head coach Jimmy Johnson and Dallas owner / general manager Jerry Jones together prior to the game ) covered for Lampley at the host and anaylsts ' desk ( and signed off the broadcast for NBC ).

While waiting for her Canadian citizenship to come through, Kate has been busy planning their wedding and the purchase of their first house, complete with a white picket fence.

While Bell had hoped his new Photophone could be used by ships at sea and to also displace the plethora of telephone lines that were blooming along busy city boulevards, his design failed to protect its transmissions from outdoor interferences such as clouds, fog, rain, snow and such, that could easily disrupt the transmission of light.

While Howe was interested in participating, he was unable to because of his busy schedule with Yes.

While bassist Keith Wilkinson was favourable to the idea and drummer Gilson Lavis expressed some interest, Jools Holland felt he was too busy with current projects to participate, and, crucially, both Tilbrook and Difford expressed reservations about working together in a band context at that point in time.

* While Ralph Messenger is busy organizing the International Conference on Consciousness Studies (" Con-Con "), to be held at Gloucester University this year, his ( recent ) past catches up with him: During a symposium in Prague some weeks ago, he spent the night with a young scientist called Ludmila Lisk, who now, by way of email, threatens to expose him as an adulterer if she is not allowed to attend the conference.

While PALs were busy developing into GALs and CPLDs ( all discussed above ), a separate stream of development was happening.

While Conan was busy on Anjou's western border, Gelduin and Robert attempted to isolate the easternmost castles of Amboise and Loches by raiding the Saumurois and disrupting communications.

While Antiochus was busy in Egypt, a rumor spread that he had been killed.

While it grew to be a relatively prosperous and busy hub of activity throughout the end of the 19th century, it was not incorporated as a city until February 15, 1908.

While vacationing in the area in 1767, Washington made note of how busy the town had become.

While busy with the civil administration, Clive continued to follow up his military success.

While the crowds usually while away the time drinking beer and eating sausages, the young men busy themselves with decorating the maypole to get the symbols of various trades representing the region into the right position.

While the expedition was being prepared, Baltimore was kept busy in England defending the charter from former members of the Virginia Company ; they were trying to regain their charter, including the entirety of the Maryland colony, which had previously been a part of Virginia.

While John Jr. and William took care of the businesses within Canada, Thomas was busy working in England.

While the United States was focusing on Afghanistan, the Soviets were busy with the Island of Cuba and Fidel Castro.

While trout typically consume about 90 % of their diet from below-water sources, the 10 % of surface-level consumption by trout is more than enough to keep most anglers busy.