Uber's valuation could be significantly slashed after SoftBank deal The SoftBank deal triggers new governance terms at Uber that were approved by the company's board in October , though. SoftBank is said to be limiting its purchase to 15pc, with other investors to buy the additional shares.
Google might set up Pixel 2 retail stores in India As such, expect Google's stores to heavily push its Pixel smartphones in an effort to boost smartphone sales in the country. It's still unclear whether Google will own and operate the stores itself, or whether it'll go the franchise route instead.
Two arrested in murder of lesbian couple, children in NY The building's manager found the deceased in their basement apartment at 158 Second Ave., Troy before 1 p.m. Troy is about 10 miles from the state capital, Albany, and about 160 miles north of New York City.
Woman dead, man injured in 'savage' pit bull attack It is unclear what drove the dogs to attack their neighbors, but experts say it's unlikely that pit bulls just turn bad. Her husband, Johnny Saylor, rushed outside to help only to be attacked by the dogs as well, according to WKRN .
Reported concern over a Derek Carr-Jon Gruden relationship His last game with Oakland was the infamous "Tuck Rule" game during the 2002 playoffs that helped launch the Patriots dynasty. It is believed that he will bring in well regarded Cincinnati Bengals defensive coordinator Paul Guenther to run his defense.
Liberian youth cast vote day after Christmas The first-round of voting in October brought high numbers of voters, and officials hoped Tuesday's vote will be no different. Weah supporters paraded through the streets of the capital Monrovia and honked auto horns to celebrate the news.
Big blaze at Manchester apartment block He also disclosed that one person had been taken to hospital for treatment after inhaling smoke as the fire raged. Firefighters battled a blaze that broke out in a 12-story building in Manchester, in the United Kingdom , today.
Apple raises pay for Tim Cook, other top executives Apple SVP of retail Angela Ahrendts and SVP of hardware technologies Johny Srouji took home about $24.2 million for 2017. The election is set to occur on Apple's next shareholders meeting February 13 at the Steve Jobs Theater in Apple Park.
Egypt hot air balloon crash: casualties reported In a similar incident in 2013, 19 tourists from Europe and Asia, were killed when a sightseeing balloon caught fire in Luxor. A health ministry spokesman said that two of the wounded were in serious condition.
From 1991 to 2015 there was a continuous decrease of 26% in the combined cancer death rate, resulting in about 2,378,600 fewer cancer deaths than would have been expected if death rates had stayed at their peak.
Steady reductions in smoking, plus better detection and treatment, accounted for a significant part of the decline.
But it killed 45 percent fewer men between 1990 and 2015, and 19 percent fewer women between 2002 and 2015.
Siegel, MPH, from the American Cancer Society in Atlanta, and colleagues estimated the number of new cancer cases and deaths that will occur in the United States in 2018.
Deaths due to prostate cancer were more than halved between 1989 and 2015, declining 52 percent.
Lung cancer incidence rates continued to decline about twice as fast in men as in women, reflecting differences in tobacco use and more smoking among females in some populations.
Researchers agree, however, that the reasons behind racial disparities in cancer deaths are multi-pronged and still not fully understood.
In 13 states, the death rates were not statistically significantly different between whites and blacks. Those shrinking gaps suggest minorities "are taking advantage of preventive services like screening mammography and colonoscopy, have reduced smoking and, for those over 65, are receiving quality care", she said.
Hansen added that among individuals undergoing cancer treatment, two-thirds of those working for large companies with over 1,000 staffers reported paid medical leave access, compared to just over one-third of those employed by small firms with fewer than 100 workers.
A woman has a 1 in 8 chance of developing breast cancer over her lifetime; a man has a 1 in 9 chance of being diagnosed with prostate cancer, the American Cancer Society says.
Women have a 37.6 percent percent chance of ever being diagnosed with cancer. The NCI is undertaking its largest-ever study on the topic to delve into how genetic and biological factors contribute to risk. "Strikingly though, tobacco remains by far the leading cause of cancer deaths today, responsible for almost three in 10 cancer deaths".
New cancer cases are still predicted to affect more than 1.7 million people in 2018, but as smoking falls out of fashion and detection and treatment technologies improve, the U.S. can expect to see survival rates continue to improve. Breast cancer alone represents 30 percent of all new cancer diagnoses in women.


How Long Does It Take The Earth To Dry Off After A World Wide Flood?
HUMANIST QUESTION: Genesis 8:13 describes the earth as being dry on the first day of the first month. But Genesis 8:14 informs us the earth was not dry until the twenty-seventh day of the second month.
A fact the humanists continually ignore is that the Bible was not written in English. The Old Testament was written in Hebrew, with a few sections in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek.
Greek follows a logic similar to our own and lends itself to a word-for-word translation much better than Hebrew does. But, in the above verses we are dealing with Hebrew.
First... if you are not carrying a bias against the Bible (that bias being that the Bible is full of contradictions), you probably would not see a problem with this English translation. Notice the first sentence says the water is dried up. So the standing water is gone... but, the earth is not yet dry.
Those of us who live in Oregon, where it rains A LOT, understand what is being said. While there may not be water running through the streets, and the streets may even be dry... there still is mud and muck... a lot of it.
So what these verses are saying is that the water was gone by the first day of the first month, but the ground was still muddy. It took until the 27th day of the second month for the ground (earth) to be dry and firm.
If we look at this from a technical view, looking at the words in Hebrew, two different Hebrew words are used.
In verse 13 the word "charab" is translated as "dried up." A more detailed translation would be "the face of the ground was dry." So the standing water is gone. In verse 14 the word "yabesh" is used. This word literally means "to be desolate" and in this context it means to be without moisture. So in verse 14 the ground is being described as completely dry and firm.
I assume you do not speak Hebrew. So how can you know there are two different Hebrew words used here, that have different meanings? The answer is on the internet. I did a search for "Bible Contradiction Genesis 8:13" and found the following web site: https://answersingenesis.org/the-flood/times-of-recession. It is okay to get help, but be sure the web site you use is one that is Biblically solid.
By the first day of the first month of Noahs six hundred and first year, the water had dried up from the earth. Noah then removed the covering from the ark and saw that the surface of the ground was dry. By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
The Old Testament contains an interesting contradiction in the story of the census taken by King David and the resulting punishment of the Israelites. God was so angered by the census that he sent a plague that killed 70,000 men. According to II Samuel 24:1, the Lord had caused David to take the census  which makes the punishment appear even more nonsensical. But an attempt was later made, at I Chronicles 21:1, to improve Gods image by claiming that Satan incited the census.
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Are there any details or a timeline available for APU5? Based on the recent coreboot push, it's 2/4GB DDR3 and the RX-421BD.
apu5 is a bespoke version for mobile communications.
Is there something specific about it that makes it unsuitable as an apu2 replacement?
Again, apu5 is a customer specific board.
What would you be looking for in a apu2 replacement ?
Personally, more memory would be nice to see, or moving to SO-DIMM slots for people to add/upgrade memory on their own.
The limitations I encounter with APU2 are mostly regarding single thread cpu performance. In particular because I have a PPPoE connection and RSS does not function for downstream PPPoE. This starts to become a challenge above 100 Mbit/s, and certainly never will reach 1000 Mbit/s. And I haven't even tried running extensive network analysis on it (think of "snort" or similar applications).
Memory is what keeps the device from being a general purpose device, rather than a router. Although for network purposes I haven't run into problems with 4GB.
A next generation device should probably migrate to m2.80mm instead of msata connector, but that's a minor thing. What I can see being useful in the future is 10Gbit NICs, but that's a bit niche at this moment, and might not be worth it yet from a business point of view.
And IPMI could be easier for management than a plain COM port, but will also come with a lot of attack vectors and probably more closed source components, so I'm a bit meh about that.
A totally open source bios would be cool, with no binary blobs, because a gateway is supposed to be a trustworthy device.
Agreed with wanting a stronger CPU. Here in Switzerland, trend is to have 1gbit fibre connections, and the current AMD CPU is just at the border of handling it. Using pfSense, it's close to being capable (however not there!).
Coming back to fibre, a SFP+ NIC/slot would be great. I could remove the media converter, and plug fibre/SFP module straight into an APU. Might also open a market with current fibre providers (e.g. Fiber7).
Perhaps the bios "situation" could be improved. It's challenging to understand what bios to use, latest bios etc.
A basic (and cheap) rack mount case would be great. Nothing fancy. I'm aware that there are cases available, however they are very expensive compared to the APU.
Besides that, very happy with APU2.
we work hard on firmware (aka BIOS) improvements. Validation cycles are very expensive, so if anyone can help in that and report what works on recent firmware version we would really appreciate that. In case of performance there are things to improve even from firmware perspective unfortunately we have to handle various requests before we can provide new features.
Github account: https://github.com/pcengines provide all recent work around PC Engines platforms, we work hard to push those improvements to mainline, those changes are considered experimental and targeted for hackers and users that want to work with bleeding edge. Anyone using github version should have method to recover firmware in case of failure.
Please let me know what information you woul like to see. We are very open for contribution in any form.
Close? That's very disappointing, because the whole reason I am looking at PCEngines is to handle symmetric gigabit fiber via GigE from an ONT. However, I had intended to use Linux (OpenWrt/LEDE or other) rather than pfSense/BSD. FWIW, I would have no PPPoE. Not sure whether that could make a difference, but from your post, I guess I need to get something with Intel instead of AMD. Ugh. Deadline approaching, too: Today, I finally saw the truck outside to start stringing the fiber here.
Even 800-900Mbit is already great for consumers in my opinion, I do not really need the last 5-10%; not running any special packages on pfSense though.
Very difficult to find something with the same footprint, power consumption and price as APU2. Perhaps by increasing CPU clock and improving cooling options (fan/passive cpu cooler), performance could be improved. However, the whole package with very reasonably priced cases and power supplies is basically unbeatable (at least in Swiss market).
Regarding BIOS, I believe that it's challenging in terms of development and testing. I can only be of limited help, since I need my APU2 as router and firewall... Would it make sense to have a beta programme where people can register and are asked to test certain features, with different OS? If you implement new (and interesting) features, I'm sure that people would jump on that. I'm not sure about the status of ECC memory support in the bios, so this might be a nice starting point.


There are times I paint a painting for no reason other than the delight of a silly or absurd word. Sometimes, it works in reverse. While we were living in Madrid, I began working on an image of a man taking his pet shallot for a walk. I asked my wife, Carole, if she would buy a shallot so I could finish the painting.“Can’t you use a green onion?” she asked.“No,” I said, “that’s a silly pet. Nobody would have a green onion for a pet.”Carole looked for weeks. I think she even had regiments of her friends scouring surrounding counties for shallots. There were no shallots anywhere in Madrid. I think they even checked parts of Barcelona.Finally one day, Carole came home triumphant and excited. “I’ve found what you wanted,” she said and handed me a paper sack from the new grocery store.It was just a bunch of leeks.“No, that is not right,” I said, returning the sack. “These are leeks, not shallots.”Carole looked me square in the eye, handed the leeks back and said, “James, finish the painting.”So, that’s how "Man Taking a Leek on a Tiled Wall for a Walk." The play on words came after the fact.So, yes, the image is great fun. The question is where would you hang it? In the kitchen? The bathroom? The man-cave? Really, it goes anywhere a little laughter is in order. Each canvas comes with the title silk-screened on a brass name plate to be sure that the title of this gem is part of the presentation. If you can’t decide whether you want to hang yours in the kitchen and the loo, let us recommend one for each.


Q: What will be Posted on WikidChem? How will it work?
A: Links, with commentary and criticism. The site contains internal links and external links, and these can be commented on implicitly or explicitly. Implicit commentary refers to the existence of a particular link or its position on a page. Explicit commentary involves everything else: a graphical or text flag, a commentary providing a description of the link or encouraging a visit, or creation of a new page devoted exclusively to annotating the content linked to.
Visitors to the site will then use this commentary to navigate the available material in a manner consistent with their specific needs (e.g., a student wanting to understand TDDFT may first visit sites explaining the relevant problem with wavefunction many-body quantum chemistry, then sites explaining how DFT treats circumvent this problem, then sites detailing the generalization of TDDFT). These visitors can leave an imprint of their visit, by modifying existing or creating new implicit and explicit commentary, and adding useful links . Future visitors can then implicitly or explicitly endorse these pathways and the process continues.
A: Why not? The important point is that WikidChem is not created to be THE Chemistry Wiki. In other words, this site is not necessarily intended to be the authoritative internet repository of chemistry content, although such ambitious contributions are welcome. Rather, wiki technology is an easy, cheap way to accomplish the goals of the project.
Q: What is the main pedagogical aspect addressed by WikidChem?
A: The development of an archive for rapid exchange of pedagogical material addresses several limitations of the traditional pedagogical method, where the process of learning is limited by the perspective and methodology of the teacher responsible for the class and a few possible textbooks. This is contrary to the very nature of the 'individual' process of learning, where a presentation that is optimum for one student is usually not ideal for another student in the class and vice-versa. Developing a resource that will make available to students multiple pedagogical approaches can overcome this limitation.
Q: How does WikidChem complement existing textbooks?
A: WikidChem can partially overcome limitations associated with textbooks, such as the fact that occasionally there are only a few textbooks for a specific course and none of which covers 'all' of the subjects of study with an approach ideal for the entire class. Furthermore, textbooks are usually developed or updated at a pace that is much slower than the possibilities offered by a WWW archive. Thus the contents of textbooks could be greatly complemented with up-to-date material uploaded by the most qualified experts in the field. The impact of such an archive is expected to be magnified by publishers and textbook writers, since such resource would provide a wealth of pedagogical information for writing new textbooks as well as an efficient way to estimate the need for a new textbook, or a new edition of an existing text. Therefore, some of the gaps and shortcomings of the current pedagogical approach can be partially overcome by the development of the proposed WWW archive.
Q: In summary, what is the overall impact of WikidChem?
A: WikidChem provides students and teachers with the possibility of consulting multiple approaches, establishing a platform for scholars from different institutions to efficiently share their own approaches and experiences. Wikidchem also guides a smooth implementation of research topics into the standard curriculum.
Q: Has the utility of WikidChem been assessed?
A: The pedagogical utility and effectiveness of the resource is evaluated not only according to the number of users, but also by the review and feedback of other colleagues in the Physical Chemistry community.
Q: Who supports Wikid Chem?
A: The first functional version of WikidChem was installed by Dr. Sabas G. Abuabara under the supervision of Prof. Victor S. Batista Yale. It is currently maintained by Benjamin Rudshteyn and Dr. Andreas Markmann also under the supervision of Prof. Victor S. Batista.
It has been supported by the NSF career Program Award CHE # 0345984.


Here's a Cartesian idea: there is special epistemic access to facts about our own subjective, internal experiences. Other knowledge we may have, like knowledge of the external world, must be derived from the more basic knowledge, which concerns the internal.
Premise (3) is no doubt dubitable, but I'll decline from dubiting it at present. I want to get clearer about (1) and (2). What's it take to be a skeptical scenario with respect to some belief? It seems like maybe Descartes treats a skeptical scenario with respect to a given belief as a possible case where one is wrong about that belief, but things seem exactly the same. But if that's the working understanding of a skeptical scenario, then it looks like we're just assuming the kind of internalism I'm looking for justification for. Why should we think the key question, for whether a given scenario has skeptical implications, is whether things seem the same? It seems that one would only sign up to that criterion if one were already convinced that seemings are really epistemically important.
Note that a more neutral characterization of skeptical scenarios might have it that a skeptical scenario with respect to p is a possible case where one is wrong about p, even though one has all the same basic evidence. But putting things this way, premises (1) and (2) become much less obvious.
So I'm tempted to think there's not actually any pressure in favour of internalism in Descartes's reflections on skeptical scenarios; reflection on which kind of deception is and isn't possible might just amount to teasing out the internalist commitments one initially finds oneself with.
I have been thinking about Mark Schroeder’s very interesting paper, “Having Reasons”. He argues against a ‘factoring account’ of having a reason for action, and he also argues that epistemologists have been misled by assuming a parallel factoring account of evidence.
Schroeder is unclear about what exactly the commitments of the factoring account are; I think he may slide between a stronger and a weaker reading of it. This isn’t disastrous for his own project, because he wants to reject both readings, but I think it’s important to keep them separate (in part because of (2) below).
The stronger reading is pretty plausibly false (though maybe not just for the reasons Shroeder says) but the weaker reading is pretty plausibly true (despite his arguments).
Epistemologists have not been misled by assuming (a strong form of) the factoring account.
I’ll try to defend (1) in this post.
When someone has a ticket to the opera, that is because there is a ticket to the opera, and it is in her possession—she has it. Similarly, if one has a golf partner, this can only be because there is someone who is a golf partner, and one has him. But here, it is not like there are people out there who have the property of being golf partners, and one is in your possession. Rather, being a golf partner is simply a relational property, and the golf partner you have—your golf partner—is simply the one who stands in the golf partner of relation to you.
A factoring account of having opera tickets is true. There is an opera ticket, and moreover, one has it. A factoring account of having golf partners, however, is to be rejected. What exactly is wrong with this view? Schroeder says it’s a commitment to the implausible claim that “there are people out there who have the property of being golf partners, and one is in your possession.” But of course, strictly speaking, there are people out there who are golf partners, and one of them is mine. I agree with Schroeder that there’s an important contrast between these cases, but I don’t think he’s quite articulated what it is. I think it has to do with grounding. What makes it the case that I have an opera ticket is the existence of this thing the opera ticket, combined with me standing in a suitable relationship to it. But the existence of the golf partner, combined with my relationship to her, doesn’t make it the case that I have a golf partner. On the contrary, it is my having her as a golf partner that makes it the case that she is a golf partner. The relationship, not the object, is relatively fundamental here; the existence of the golf partner—though genuine—is derivative.
Weak Factoring: Any time S has R as a reason, there exists a reason R, and S stands in a suitable having relation to R.
Strong Factoring: What it is for S to have R as a reason is for there to exist a reason R, and for S to stand in a suitable having relation to R.
The distinction makes an important difference when it comes to thinking about the views one might have about reasons. For example, here is a possible view one might have about reasons: R=K. (A proposition is among a subject’s reasons if and only if the subject knows that proposition.) This view counts as a Weak Factoring view—any time you have knowledge, there is some knowledge, and moreover, you have it. But it is not a Strong Factoring view; the extinct of the knowledge ontologically depends on your having the knowledge. It is more like golf partners than opera tickets.
“Weak Factoring” is probably a misnomer, really—the view in question isn’t a kind of factoring at all. It’s a mere entailment claim. So when Schroeder’s argument against what he calls ‘The Factoring View’ takes the form of counterexamples to Weak Factoring, he’s really making a much more radical claim than anything we should call the rejection of a factoring treatment of having reasons. He's rejecting the mere entailment from having a reason to there being a reason.


However, the FDA reports that within the US, there isn't any known arrest of anyone caught investing in a prescription drug from an online Canadian pharmacy physician for personal use. These employees can finally keep their health condition private and continue with their jobs when they use pharmacy finder. Many independent pharmacies offer home overall medical care aids, such as walkers and bathroom safe practices units.
I use Walmart as a possible example because that is where I get my prescriptions, however the same might be done at any pharmacy that provides discounted generics. This ensures that those who drop out of school early and quickly obtain a GED might still 't be eligible to work being a New Jersey pharmacy technician. Doing so keeps the doorway to better job opportunities open.
The tech will enter orders, check orders, process requests for insurance and patient information among other things. This is when a great deal of problems are encountered but it is important to remember it is almost always never the pharmacy's fault that a claim has become rejected. In the truth of pharmacy specialist jobs, giving an unacceptable prescription will be the widespread error that is certainly mostly documented.
1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, or 1-2 lumps of preserved ginger, chopped. Screaming, yelling, demanding things, or being rude will not help the situation. After you filled in the account, you'll now pick a payment scheme.
The narcotics are invariably kept inside a safe that exactly the pharmacist has usage of. Then it lists 4 points which I am reproducing just as written:. Some pharmacies try to find technicians which are self motivated and action takers.
However, the FDA reports that within the US, there isn't any known arrest of anyone caught investing in a prescription drug from an online Canadian pharmacy physician for personal use. These employees can finally keep their health condition private and continue with their jobs when they use pharmacy finder. Many independent pharmacies offer home overall medical care aids, such as walkers and bathroom safe practices units. I use Walmart as a possible example because that is where I get my prescriptions, however the same might be done at any pharmacy that provides discounted generics. This ensures that those who drop out of school early and quickly obtain a GED might still 't be eligible to work being a New Jersey pharmacy technician. Doing so keeps the doorway to better job opportunities open. The tech will enter orders, check orders, process requests for insurance and patient information among other things. This is when a great deal of problems are encountered but it is important to remember it is almost always never the pharmacy's fault that a claim has become rejected. In the truth of pharmacy specialist jobs, giving an unacceptable prescription will be the widespread error that is certainly mostly documented. 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger, or 1-2 lumps of preserved ginger, chopped. Screaming, yelling, demanding things, or being rude will not help the situation. After you filled in the account, you'll now pick a payment scheme. The narcotics are invariably kept inside a safe that exactly the pharmacist has usage of. Then it lists 4 points which I am reproducing just as written:. Some pharmacies try to find technicians which are self motivated and action takers.


Recently, the term Biometrics been used to refer to the emerging field of technology devoted to identification of individuals using biological traits, such as those based on retinal or iris scanning, fingerprints, or face recognition.
A simple biometric system translates a human image into a polygon by considering certain features (eyes, nose, ears, etc.) to be vertices and connecting them with line segments. The polygon has distinct vertices but may be degenerate in that the line segments could intersect. Because these polygons are generally created from remote images, there is some uncertainty as to their scale and rotation. Your job is to determine whether or not two polygons are similar; that is, can they be made equal by repositioning, rotating and magnifying them?
The vertices for both polygons correspond to the same set of features in the same order; for example, right ear tip, chin cleft, right eye, nose, left eye, left ear tip, space between front teeth. Each polygon has f distinct vertices; each vertex is given as an x and y coordinate pair. There are at least three and no more than ten features. Coordinates are integers between -1000 and 1000. A line containing 0 follows the last test case.
For each case, output a line "similar" or "dissimilar" as appropriate. The two polygons are similar if, after some combination of translation, rotation, and scaling (but not reflection) both vertices corresponding to each feature are in the same position.


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What is the best method to find the number of digits of a positive integer?
where you can calculate log10(x) = ln(x) / ln(10) in most languages.
First I thought the string method is the dirtiest one but the more I think about it the more I think it's the fastest way. Or is it?
I don't know, and the answer may well be different depending on how your individual language is implemented.
So, stress test it! Implement all three solutions. Run them on 1 through 1,000,000 (or some other huge set of numbers that's representative of the numbers the solution will be running against) and time how long each of them takes.
Pit your solutions against one another and let them fight it out. Like intellectual gladiators. Three algorithms enter! One algorithm leaves!
Then think how many FPU operations/s your processor can do and how easy it is to calculate a single log.
This statement involves allocating memory for a string, and possibly a couple of temporary copies of a string. It must parse the integer and copy the digits of it into a string, possibly having to reallocate and move the existing memory if the number is large. It might have to check a bunch of locale settings to decide if your country uses "," or ".", it might have to do a bunch of unicode conversions.
Then finding the length has to scan the entire string, again considering unicode and any local specific settings such as - are you in a right->left language?.
Just because this would be harder for you to do on paper doesn't mean it's hard for a computer! In fact a good rule in high performance computing seems to have been - if something is hard for a human (fluid dynamics, 3d rendering) it's easy for a computer, and if it's easy for a human (face recognition, detecting a voice in a noisy room) it's hard for a computer!
You can generally assume that the builtin maths functions log/sin/cos etc - have been an important part of computer design for 50years. So even if they don't map directly into a hardware function in the FPU you can bet that the alternative implementation is pretty efficient.
This algorithm, should have speed comparable to for-loop (2) provided, but a bit faster due to (2 bit-shifts, add and subtract, instead of division).
As for Log10 algorithm, it will give you only approximate answer (that is close to real, but still), since analytic formula for computing Log function have infinite loop and can't be calculated precisely Wiki.
Note: Author refrains from making any conclusions for numbers with more than 10 digits.
conversion to string: This will have to iterate through each digit, find the character that maps to the current digit, add a character to a collection of characters. Then get the length of the resulting String object. Will run in O(n) for n=#digits.
for-loop: will perform 2 mathematical operation: dividing the number by 10 and incrementing a counter. Will run in O(n) for n=#digits.
logarithmic: Will call log10 and floor, and add 1. Looks like O(1) but I'm not really sure how fast the log10 or floor functions are. My knowledge of this sort of things has atrophied with lack of use so there could be hidden complexity in these functions.
So I guess it comes down to: is looking up digit mappings faster than multiple mathematical operations or whatever is happening in log10? The answer will probably vary. There could be platforms where the character mapping is faster, and others where doing the calculations is faster. Also to keep in mind is that the first method will creats a new String object that only exists for the purpose of getting the length. This will probably use more memory than the other two methods, but it may or may not matter.
You can obviously eliminate the method 1 from the competition, because the atoi/toString algorithm it uses would be similar to method 2.
Method 3's speed depends on whether the code is being compiled for a system whose instruction set includes log base 10.
Use the simplest solution in whatever programming language you're using. I can't think of a case where counting digits in an integer would be the bottleneck in any (useful) program.
For very large integers, the log method is much faster. For instance, with a 2491327 digit number (the 11920928th Fibonacci number, if you care), Python takes several minutes to execute the divide-by-10 algorithm, and milliseconds to execute 1+floor(log(n,10)).
Regarding the three methods you propose for "determining the number of digits necessary to represent a given number in a given base", I don't like any of them, actually; I prefer the method I give below instead.
Re your method #1 (strings): Anything involving converting back-and-forth between strings and numbers is usually very slow.
Re your method #2 (temp/=10): This is fatally flawed because it assumes that x/10 always means "x divided by 10". But in many programming languages (eg: C, C++), if "x" is an integer type, then "x/10" means "integer division", which isn't the same thing as floating-point division, and it introduces round-off errors at every iteration, and they accumulate in a recursive formula such as your solution #2 uses.
Re your method #3 (logs): it's buggy for large numbers (at least in C, and probably other languages as well), because floating-point data types tend not to be as precise as 64-bit integers.
Here is the measurement in Swift 4.
On this measurement basis String conversion is the best option for the Swift language.
I was curious after seeing @daniel.sedlacek results so I did some testing using Swift for numbers having more than 10 digits. I ran the following script in the playground.
Where x is a the base and n is the number.
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What do I need to tell my doctor BEFORE I take Barium Tablets?
If you have an allergy to barium or any other part of this medicine (barium tablets).
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An employee works on a mobile phone production line at Huawei's factory campus in Dongguan, Guangdong province, China March 25, 2019. Picture taken March 25, 2019.
Israel Export Institute data showed that the Israeli semiconductor exports to China increased by 80 percent year on year in 2018 to 2.6 billion yuan. The countries exports to the United States declined by 20 percent to $ 860 million.
The Deputy Director of North East Asia Department in the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the former Consul General of Israel Consulate Generate in Chengdu, Amir Lati, said during an interview with National Business Daily that Israel's semiconductor exports currently contributes more or less 56 percent of the total exports to China.
There are reports also of notable increases in other technology products including smart manufacturing and medical devices in addition to the semiconductor exports. A private equity investor with knowledge of the industry was quoted saying that Israel has an advanced and application-oriented R&D capacity which makes it fit well to the Chinese market.
Israel currently has no less than 160 semiconductor companies which compete with the branches of all international semiconductor giants. Mr. Lati revealed that a majority of Israeli semiconductor export to China are produced by Intel.
Last year, the export of computer chips of Israel to China increased after Chinese firms bought more semiconductors from Intel's Kiryat Gat plant. According to an official at the Israel Institute, the exports of semiconductor to China increased by 80 percent in 2018 in which at least 80 percent was contributed by Intel.
The increase in export to China is good news for Israel since it pushes to have deeper ties with China and the semiconductor industry accounts for $ 3.9 billion of the overall goods exports in 2018. China and Israel started their negotiation on trade and it is expected that technology will play a major part in the discussions. According to statistics, if diamonds are excluded, the overall exports of Israeli goods to China increased by 50 percent to 4.7 billion.
Intel announced in 2017 that they will invest $5 billion to expand the capacity of its Kiryat Gat Plant in Southern Israel. The Kiryat plant manufactures the smallest and fastest chips in the world. Intel also purchased the Israeli auto-focused chip and technology firm Mobileye for $15 billion. The company also plans to invest an additional $11 billion to build a new Israeli plant.
According to an Intel spokesman, the company exported $3.9 billion worth of goods from Israel last year which is an increase from $3.6 billion in 2017.


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What are the benefits of olive oil? Olive oil is high in monounsaturated fatty acids (mainly oleic acid), which, unlike saturated fats, do not adversely affect blood cholestrol levels and may even help to lower them slightly. For those suffering from constipation, take more olive oil often as it helps to lubricate the intestines and eliminate waste from our bodies, thereby curing your constipation. Olive oil also provides natural antioxidants (called polyphenols) which help to reduce the risk of heart disease and cancer. Why is olive oil catergorises into different types ? The flavor of olive oil varies, depending on the source, the variety of olive, the soil conditions, weather, etc. Some of the primary sources come from Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey Portugal, Tunisia, Morocco, and California.
Some olive oils are from a single variety of oils, but others, like most Italian oils, are blends of oils from different types of olives and from different countries. How to differentiate among "Virgin", "Extra virgin", "Fine" and "refined" olive oil? The oil produced from the first pressing of ripe olives is often the purest form, thus is called virgin. Extra virgin simply means an oil from the first pressing that is particularly low in acid - less than 1%. Virgin olive oil acidity level could be as high as 4%. Fino or fine olive oil is a blend of extra virgin and virgin olive oils, with an acid content not above 3%.
After the first pressing, more oil is extracted in subsequent operations using a combination of pressure, heat, and chemical solvents. These refined oils may be blended with virgin oil to replace some of the flavor lost in the processing, and are sold as pure olive oil or just olive oil. In some countries, you may also stumble upon light olive oil, which is not lower in calories, but which has been so finely filtered as to remove most of its color and fragrance (and flavor). It has a higher smoke point than the other types of olive oil, though, so it is well suited to high-temperature frying. For the best qualities, we should go for the "Virgin" or "Extra virgin" olive oil because they have a fruity and rich flavour, wouldn't turn rancid so fast and are more easily digestible than refined oil. They have the same nutritional level.
But, extra virgin oil which is low in acidity level contains more antioxidants. Where is olive oil used? Compared with other vegetable oils, only olive oil has enough flavour to replace butter and margarine for a healthier choice. Because of its pure state, extra virgin oil is often used as a dressing in salads or as a dip for breads. Refined or light olive oil is suitable for deep frying. It may seem pricey to use it to fry food but the fact that such oil is four to five times more heat resistant than vegetable oil would mean you can reuse it to fry foods many more times before the oil begins to break down.
Will olive oil loses its nutritional value when heated ? Olive oil, when heated at high temperature, will cause its alcohols and esters to evaporate. The esters are what make up the olive oil delicate taste and fragrance. So heat will only change the flavor of olive oil but not its nutritional contents. We recommend you use a cheaper olive oil like refined/light oil for frying and then add a more flavorful olive oil after cooking.
Will cooking in olive oil reduces the nutritional value of the food when heated ? Heating food will break down its nutritional value. Whether it is high heat used for frying or medium heat used for steaming, they are no better than eating the vegetables raw as they are. It is not the cooking oil per se, but the high heat of frying. Most nutritionists recommend lightly steaming vegetables or eating them raw. A touch of a flavorsome olive oil added at the table will add taste and healthful anti-oxidants. This is what "Mediterranean diet" is about, which has been shown to help prevent coronary disease and have other health benefits.
How to store Olive oil ? Keep away from heat, ie the stove, to prevent ageing of the oil. Better to keep a large container in a dark, cool cupboard and pour a small amount into a dispenser for everyday use. The container can be made of plastic, stainless or tinted glass. Alternatively, you can store oil in the refrigerator or freezer, which will greatly extend its shelf life.
Do not worry about the crystallized waxes in the oil when chilled. All you have to do is to warm the oil back to room temperature to melt it.


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There are various forms of nickel alloy products available in the market, including medium plate, sheet, strip, pipe, joint and forgings. The ASTM specification for part of the product is listed in Table 5. Some nickel alloys and casting products usually have different characteristics from forging products.
Nickel alloys are generally classified according to their main alloy components. The following is a brief introduction of nickel alloys widely used in chemical equipment.
Pure nickel pure nickel (alloy 200) has very good corrosion resistance to various reducing acids and salts, but it is not suitable for strong oxidizing medium such as nitric acid. The most important characteristic of pure nickel is its incomparable ability to resist caustic soda and even caustic corrosion in molten state. Although pure nickel has a very high corrosion resistance in dry halogen media, its corrosion resistance is not enough below the dew point. For applications with a temperature exceeding 600, it is best to use alloy 200 derived from low carbon nickel 201 (UNSUO2201).
The corrosion resistance of Ni Cu alloy 400 is the same as nickel, and the corrosion resistance of Ni Cu alloy 400 is best under reductive medium, and the corrosion resistance of gas and oxidizing chemicals is unfavorable. Alloy 400 has excellent resistance to halogenate and halide corrosion, especially hydrofluoric acid and high temperature gas containing fluorine or hydrogen fluoride. This alloy is widely used in the treatment of sulfuric acid solution, sea water and brine. For high strength purposes, such as valves and pump parts, alloy K-500 (NO5500) is often used as a precipitation hardening derivative of alloy 400.
The addition of chromium to Ni Cr Fe alloy 600 in nickel matrix expands the applicability of alloy 600 in oxidizing environment. Alloy 600, although its corrosion resistance to inorganic acids is medium, its corrosion resistance to organic acids is very good, so it is widely used in the processing of fatty acids. Alloy 600 is also widely used in the production and storage of hydroxide and alkaline chemicals.
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First, the content of alloying elements, generally speaking, the content of chromium is not easily rusted in 10.5% of steel. The higher the chromium-nickel content, the better the corrosion resistance is. For example, the 304 material nickel content is 8-10%, and the chromium content is 18-20%. Such stainless steel will not rust under normal circumstances.
Second, the smelting process of the production company will also affect the corrosion resistance of stainless steel. The large stainless steel plant with good smelting technology, advanced equipment and advanced technology can ensure the control of the alloy elements, the removal of impurities, and the control of the cooling temperature of the billet. Therefore, the product quality is stable and reliable, the internal quality is good, and it is not easy to rust. Conversely, some small steel plants are behind and the process is behind. During the smelting process, impurities cannot be removed and the products will inevitably rust.
Third, the external environment, climate, dry and ventilated environment is not easy to rust. Humidity in the air, continuous rainy weather, or air in areas with high pH, it is easy to rust. 304 stainless steel, if the surrounding environment is too bad it will rust.
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Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster has confirmed that his ex-White House colleague Gary Cohn removed a trade-related document from President Trump's desk in the oval office.
"I know about that incident and that was wholly appropriate for Gary Cohn, who was a wonderful public servant and a great colleague, to do," McMaster said during an appearance an event held by Perry World House, reports the Washington Examiner.
In Bob Woodward's latest book, Fear, he reports thatTrump had on his desk a document that if signed would pull the U.S. out of a trade agreement with South Korea. Cohn grabbed it and walked off with it and later told an associate about what he did. "I stole it off his desk," Cohn said, according to the book. "I wouldn't let him see it. He's never going to see that document. Got to protect the country."
1. The unsigned letter on Trumps' desk was just a reference copy (or no particular importance) that Trump had brought back from a staff meeting, and left on his desk.
2. It was a "brain-storming" letter - being considered as one of several possible approaches toward trade policy with Korea - and this policy was ultimately not selected for implementation. I'm not sure about how things work at the White House, or in the Office of the US Trade Representative, but - in the US Military - if a staff officer is presenting a DECISION BRIEFING to a Commanding General (decision-maker), one requirement is that for whatever decision the briefer him/herself is recommending to the CG, an actual implementation order to put that decision into effect (by the CG signing it) must be included as the last page in the briefing. That does NOT mean that the proposed order provided by the staff officer is the order that the CG actually signs and issues - but doctrine states that such an implementation order must be furnished.
3. It was an actual action version, intended for Trump's signature.
If it was #3, is anyone so naieve as to think that such a letter would not be recorded in a document tracking system, and that its failure to come back signed would not generate follow-up, including production of another printing of the letter, for signing? Does anyone think that the mere disappearance of an unsigned policy implementation letter would cause the underlying policy to be abandoned and forgotten? That is ludicrous.