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Gardam’s counterexample uses one of the simplest number systems for its coefficients, a clock arithmetic with only two “hours.”

They’re also useful more generally whenever the linear system you’re trying to solve has a large number of variables whose coefficients are zero.

Drag coefficient measures how aerodynamic a car is, or essentially how its shape impacts the way it moves through the air, and the lower the number, the better.

The first dimension comes from taking a subset of the 3 billion numbers and adding them together, or multiplying them by some coefficient.

Stuff the part that wants to become infinite into a coefficient — a fixed number — in front of the sum.

(b) Similarly obtain the phenol coefficient at 30 minutes contact period.

Of course you want to know how this coefficient has been found out, and how you can be sure it is correct.

I hope I have now kept my promise, and made it clear how the coefficient of centrifugal force may be found in this simple way.

How to find the coefficient, by which the amount of centrifugal force exerted in any case may be computed.

At high temperatures the resistance generally increases, but the temperature coefficient is irregular.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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