Like the Latin books, they're no longer texts so much as tiny time machines – handling them zips me back with a jolt to obsessions with the precise length of a Pinter "pause" as opposed to "silence'" or weighing up how many lamb's hearts you need to last a week-long run of 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, with two matinees.
Hipparchus calculated the tropical year to have a length of 365.242 days, which was very close to the present calculation of 365.242199 days; he also computed the precise length of a lunation, using a "great year" of four Callippic cycles.
A skeletonization algorithm was then used to obtain the relevant body points, which serve as basis for a spline of interpolation to measure the precise length of each individual [see Additional file 6 for more details on the automatic procedure].
DETERMINING the precise length of such recoveries is a problem, given the many definitions of a bear market.
Another study is in progress, which will relate these levels to the precise length of ileum resected, giving a better idea of the areas of the distal small intestine capable of FGF19 production.
Baseline data will be collected from each pair of units by undertaking a prospective clinical audit (Audit 1) over a period of around one month (although the precise length of time may be shorter, depending on the size of the units recruited).
And the solar calendar presented an even more fundamental problem that of finding the precise length of the tropical year.
This may suggest a difference between Arabidopsis and tree species in the precise length of 3'UTR that could trigger NMD pathway.
Coincidentally, the obituary ran 642 words, the precise length of my initial article about the events that made him a national symbol.
Her parents offered suggestions, mostly based on conjured-up culinary mishaps, all of which she dismissed as being inadequate in view of the precise length of time involved.
