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 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.

While it's busy saving those bytes to memory, the EEPROM won't respond to further I²C requests.

" 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 the issue of military funding was perhaps the most obvious explanation for Grothendieck's departure from IHÉS, those who knew him say that the causes of the rupture ran deeper.

While Hadrian may have been the obvious choice as successor, he had never been adopted as Trajan's heir.

While most of the shelter's inhabitants considered a racist motivation for the attack obvious, the police and the local court have been accused of having ruled out racism as a possible motive before even beginning preliminary investigations.

While the first use of a roundel in a London transport context was the 19th-century symbol of the London General Omnibus Company – a wheel with a bar across the centre bearing the word GENERAL – its use on the Underground stems from the decision in 1908 to find a more obvious way of highlighting station names on platforms.

While many films are not as obvious as Disney fairy tales in respect to the employment of myth, the plots of many films are largely based on the rough structure of the myth.

While the content of the letters was subtle in their inferred goal of securing his authority, when read in total, his goal becomes more obvious:

While many structuralists first thought that they could tease out an author's intention by close scrutiny, they soon argued that textual analysis discovered so many disconnections that it was obvious that their own experiences lent a view that was unique to them.

While middle-class workers may " suffer alienating conditions " or " lack of job satisfaction ", blue-collar workers are more apt to suffer alienating, often routine, work with obvious physical health hazards, injury, and even death.

While this error is often not obvious to casual observers, under the ISU Judging System, cheated jumps are heavily penalized, in many cases as much as or more than a fall on a fully rotated jump.

While his career as a critic and writer provided him with a comfortable income, and he had an obvious talent for writing, he came to detest the amount of time spent attending performances to review, as it severely limited his free time to promote his own composition and produce more compositions.

While central obesity can be obvious just by looking at the naked body ( see the picture ), the severity of central obesity is determined by taking waist and hip measurements.

While perhaps less obvious than in the past, morphing is used heavily today.

While Caen and other writers implied a connection with communism, there was no obvious or direct connection between the beat philosophy ( as expressed by the leading authors of this literary movement ) and the philosophy of the communist movement, other than the antipathy that both philosophies shared towards capitalism.

While not official, Trenchard's depiction had an obvious influence on subsequent official versions, and was the first known public rendering of the reverse side ( and only one for many years ).

While environmental abnormalities may appear to have an obvious cause, there may not appear to be any known cause for some developmental abnormalities.

While disappointing on the narrative level the film nevertheless is a showcase for the rare gem that is early Kiwi comedy, highlighting a penchant for comedic understatment, an emphasis on New Zealand speech patterns ( verbal reversals and wordplay ) and the ironic stabs at the obvious.

While transport and especially the railways and ferries have been North Queensferry's most obvious industries, one local industry that pre-dated the arrival of the railway and continues to the present is quarrying.

While playing piano was the most obvious application of his mental and physical skills, he also had an encyclopedic memory for Major League Baseball statistics.

While the producers had begun work on the film anticipating it as the last film, by the premiere it was obvious the film would make money and that a Star Trek VII would soon be in the works.

While the title of it and Roger Dean's sleeve both suggested that the band was romantically working medieval myth into their songs-and surely songs like " Rainbow Demon " and " The Wizard " ( co-written by Mark Clarke, during his short stay ) did have thematical links with fantasy world-more straightforward, hard-rocking approach was also obvious.

While giving voters more points may appear to give them a greater ability to graduate their support for individual candidates, it is not obvious that it changes the democratic structure of the method.

While the obvious disadvantage of this type of working is the multiple of amount of work one must do with a given quality standard, one-man groups usually point out that having no others to work with gets rid of discussions and creative differences alike, and is actually a very free way of working.

While it seems intuitively obvious that high-visibility clothing should make its wearer easier for vehicle operators, hunters, etc., to see and avoid, there are surprisingly few studies to quantify the effectiveness of high-visibility clothing for particular classes of users.

While often compared to Proust, others find the comparison " obvious, although superficial.