One of the most recent is on Pac - Man and scoring, which explores the phenomenon of the «perfect score» in Pac - Man: something made possible by the fact that a) the game is deterministic (the ghosts» behavior is predictable and reliable), and b) the game has
a finite number of a levels (not by design — but an integer overflow enforces this).
Not exact matches
Whitehead's description
of «importance» as a»... fundamental notion not to be fully explained by any reference to a
finite number of other factors» (MT 8), suggests that it permeates all
levels and types
of existence.
As each sequencing glass slide can sequence only a
finite number of DNA molecules, higher
levels of multiplexing would lead to fewer DNA molecules to be sequenced per sample.
Most
of the time this means that women see a
finite number of spots at that
level for us, so the automatic feeling when we meet a new female colleague (especially if she's good) is that we are threatened.
Yes, in a hark back to the old skool roots
of the game, there is a time limit and there are a
finite number of lives, although extra lives are liberally scattered around the
levels if you care to explore a little.
Since this is a
finite market with a pre-determined
number of A
level works, buyers are more likely to make an investment into a work by Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline and others than in any other segment and feel a certain sense
of confidence in their ROI.
The
number (N)
of generations remaining before our society collapses to subsistence or extinction with huge loss
of life is dependent on (a function
of [f]-RRB- the Population (P)
Level in the world multiplied by the Average Standard
of Living in the world placing Economic Demands on the Earth's
finite non-renewable natural resources (R) economically available to humans.
However, the wide range and
finite number of simulation outputs render modeled relationships between temperature and Antarctic sea -
level contribution locally nonmonotonic.
In the big picture it's quite simple: In a world with
finite resources, fewer people mean greater
levels of resources equitably available to all, while greater
numbers of people mean there's less to go around without running into conflict over those resources or tragically and perpetually marginalizing parts
of our human family.
They will work on few high
level assignments for which there will be a
finite number of suitable candidates.