It has generally fast response time (fractions of a second) to quickly navigate complex environments.
The use of human muscle generates mere fractions of the power required to run these facilities.
Learning fractions may happen at 6 years old or 15 and could take two days or two months.
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Then you are told that this turmoil is adding just fractions of a penny to the national income?
The numeracy tests cover reading graphs and tables, as well as mental arithmetic questions including percentages and fractions.
That has left U.K. banks among the most lowly valued in Europe, trading at fractions of book value.
Pritzker died and later, when Jay and Robert Pritzker died, the IRS received wee fractions of the family fortune.
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Earnings news matters immediately, the reaction time for a given stock can be measured in fractions of a second.
These fractions apply whether or not there was any evidence you had been drinking before these disasters befell you.
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Exposures to other mycotoxins were at tiny fractions of the levels known to cause effects in humans and animals.
Will people vote on fractions of a percentage point on the growth rate?
Students learn facts and figures and tiny fractions of knowledge long before anyone really puts things into a larger context.
An even bigger worry is supply interruptions, which can disrupt factories even if they last for fractions of a second.
They should be able to carry out simple equations and algebra, calculate in fractions and percentages, calculate angles and understand probability.
National Numeracy says Michael Gove's plans to make pupils learn times tables, long division and fractions earlier imposes a "superficial rigour".
The sources of this problem stem from banks or lenders disappearing, in which large fractions of the stock of money vanish.
The expansionary social web consists of a myriad array of digital social products, jostling for fractions of our finite time and attention.
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Getting rid of the stark choice bottle or no bottle helps retailers get more money for bottles or, rather, for more fractions of them.
Decisions have to be made and changed again in fractions of seconds.
There began to be moments of hesitation, fractions of a second when the thing I was looking at refused to accept any language.
As soon as there is a need for TDI power, it is coupled to the drivetrain again, jolt-free, within fractions of a second.
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The speed is important because the matter and anti-matter, once created, typically annihilate each other fractions of a second after they are created.
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While the storm was dumping plenty of snow in other places, Washington was getting just fractions of an inch, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.
Yet substantial fractions of those interviewed in every city and for all drug types said that welfare had been their primary source of income before arrest.
Thirty years ago, pupils would sometimes convert decimals into fractions to solve a problem, but those taking the tests now did the reverse, researchers found.
Matthew knows an awful lot about physics, Jordan's fractions were immaculate.
Libraries of solved CAPTCHA images have also been collected, thanks to sites around the web that pay people fractions of pennies to solve tons of CAPTCHAs.
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Leveraging technology developed by Merrill Lynch in the 1970s, ShareBuilder gives investors the ability to buy fractions of shares in a stock on an on-going basis.
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Leveling the platform is a particularly important step -- after all, if things are off by mere fractions of an inch, it can screw prints up completely.
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