A classic example involves determining the length of a coastline.
A similar process called rectification is used in determining the length of a curve.
Most states, she said, do not have such specific guidelines for determining the length of alimony.
"I tracked my way through the work," he said, "determining the length of the scenes, who's in them, how they enter, how they leave.
Moreover, Ms Belhadj reckons that considerations of morality played a role in determining the length of the sentence.
In a memorandum of support for the new camera legislation, the New York State AAA wrote that for the camera program to be effective, officials "must be scrupulously fair" in determining the length of yellow lights.
Noteworthy among the scientific methods introduced later was the use of the telescope for determining the length of a degree of longitude.
Their age can be estimated by determining the length of time needed to produce a leaf and counting the leaf scars.
Bertillon countered this hypothetical typology with empirical method, taking "anthropometric" measurements — determining the length of a convict's middle finger, for example — as well as making elaborate verbal descriptions of a subject's physical aspect, covering everything from his wrinkles to his eyelids, and two standardized photographs of his face, one from the front, one in profile.
The pride of Samos, he was in the news last week when Jason Garrett, coach of the Dallas Cowboys, said he had been quizzing his standout wide receiver Miles Austin on the mathematician and philosopher's famous theorem for determining the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle.
Many people use the number of years left on their mortgage as a guideline when determining the length of their term assurance policy, but you can then set the level of cover to remain level throughout the term, decrease over time (often to mirror a repayment mortgage) or increase over time (to protect against inflation).
