Brilliant mathematicians come in all shapes and sizes, and they are not always easy to spot.

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It is the sizes in which they are sold.

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On top of that, deal sizes are considerably smaller in China than they are in the U.S. and Europe.

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Vendors of all sizes are here in Las Vegas introducing products they hope will capitalize on piqued consumer interest and the predicted growth in the e-book market in the year ahead.

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Smart businesses of all sizes are finding and hiring the exact skillset they need for a project, for ongoing work, or even a few hours without having to worry about overhead, payroll taxes, benefits or future layoffs.

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When it comes to the largest sizes on offer, these are now bigger than they ever been -the notable exception being the Supersize option in McDonalds that was phased out in 2004.

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Labour promised that class sizes would be smaller, but three years on, they are bigger.

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They said that by using stereolithography, their printer could offer "layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with" the existing technique used by budget printers, which melt plastic and squeeze it through a nozzle to build up each layer of an object.

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The markets that they generate are more like a turbulent river or the weather system, subject to constant storms and seizures of all sizes.

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Like most of the new bite-sized chicken meals, they are made from cuts of chicken, restaurants say, not reconstituted chicken, to create irregular shapes and sizes.

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