The book's chief subject is Didion's daughter, Quintana, who died in 2005 after a long hospitalization, but the account ranges across several decades, scrutinizing memory fragments and details for clues foreshadowing Quintana's death.
The Shannon index, which takes both taxa richness and the relative abundance into account, ranges from 0 (one species presents) to about 4.5 (species are relatively evenly distributed).
Different Monte Carlo steps are taken into account, ranging from 5 to 50000, as an optimal value for this parameter does not exist for all different ligand types (A, B, and C).
Initial accounts ranged from as few as 10 deaths to as many as 30.
Estimates of the size of the hole in the betting industry's accounts ranged from £60m to £80m.
New findings relevant to national income accounting ranged from estimates of the value of household production and human capital to measures of environmental damage and sustainable development.
Estimates of the cost of creating those accounts range from $1 trillion to $2 trillion over the next two decades.
The story of the fall of the House of Atreus has been recast in accounts ranging from Homer to Tony Harrison.
