Sure enough, they found that in each of the lines, the number of copies had grown.
Advertising rates should be based on readership, he says, not the number of copies sold.
Then they bred each of the lines for 200 generations and counted the number of copies again.
The result is variation in the number of copies of that sequence, a variability we call CNV.
Pachter said no football season could cut the number of copies of Madden EA sells this year in half.
By contrast, in natural populations of fruit flies the number of copies of copia is low around 20 per individual.
Radiohead's previous album sold only 300, 000 copies in the first week about one-sixth the number of copies of In Rainbows now in circulation.
Rather, the number of copies of copia expanded exponentially suggesting that the more copies of copia a fly has, the faster they accumulate.
To meet the additional orders, Agate has tripled the number of copies it plans to print from an original 12, 000 copies to 32, 000.
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But an analysis of the figures reveals that between Monday and Friday, the number of copies actively bought by readers drops to around 28, 500.
To show this, Dr Nuzhdin and his colleagues took 30 lines of laboratory-dwelling flies and counted the number of copies of copia in each.
The answer is, of course, in a world where there are alternatives to almost every software program, less than the number of copies which were stolen.
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Having more or less than the typical number of copies could be meaningless or meaningful to an organism, depending on what the effects of a specific number are.
With Quick Hit NFL, he wants to bring that number up to at least 5 million around the same as the number of copies of Madden sold in each version.
According to their numbers, by March the number of copies of MW3 sold was 4.2% behind where the first Black Ops title had been at the same time a year earlier.
You probably already know that Sony BMG has started selling at least some CDs that include built-in copy-protection, making it difficult to play the CDs on a computer using any media player other than the one bundled on the CD, and limiting the number of copies you can make.
Quora has printed up only a limited number of hardcover copies of its book and is distributing them privately, mostly to top authors, rather than making the physical book available via regular sales channels.
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And, they found, the actual number of illicit digital copies of computer games accessed on BitTorrent is nowhere near as high as claimed, with only around 12.6 million unique peers worldwide sharing illicit copies of games.
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Several other tiers also promise multiple copies of the game, bringing the number well over 1, 000.
Cardle sold 439, 000 copies to see off competition from a number of Facebook-led campaigns, Rihanna Ft Drake, and the original version of his own single.
Blizzard had over 2 million pre-orders for Diablo III and the game has attracted a huge number of gamers, breaking records with over 3.5 million copies sold in its first 24 hours.
The Official Charts Company said the song, which is raising money for the Queen's Jubilee charities, was the biggest selling number one of the year so far, selling 142, 000 copies in the past week.
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The band eventually set aside 100 vinyl copies which is a fifth of the number of records the group initially pressed and packaged them with a DVD of music videos for the pre-order deal, which went on sale through Bandcamp early Tuesday afternoon.
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Sir Cliff, who had his first number one single in 1959 with Living Doll, sold 33, 376 copies of Thank You For a Lifetime.
The spread of daily newspapers in developing countries has risen to 60 copies per 1, 000 people, from 29 in 1970-96, and the number of televisions has increased 16-fold.
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