Sentence examples for fundamental number from inspiring English sources

Zero can be a fundamental number, he said, but not a 1 with 59 zeroes between it and the decimal point.

Dr. James E. Hansen, a climate expert at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, said the finding was important because, "in my opinion, the rate of ocean heat storage is the most fundamental number for our understanding of long-term climate change".

The teacher was instrumental in underscoring the commonalities in the variety of strategies that were presented, and in the implicit use and demonstration of fundamental number properties [15].

Astrophysicist Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, the U.K.'s Astronomer Royal, is somewhat sceptical about certain projects under consideration, both by NASA and ESA: "I genuinely think it is hard to justify very expensive space projects for just one fundamental number.

This effect might be caused by a slow change in a fundamental number known as the fine-structure constant; this constant, denoted by the Greek letter alpha, is related to the strength of the electromagnetic force, which, in turn, determines the spacing in the bands.

The karyotype somatic number is 2n = 54, and fundamental number = 70.

Each generation has contributed another chapter in our odyssey to understand these fundamental numbers.

"The fundamental numbers are good," said Mr. Oszko, who now runs a venture capital fund.

With uncertainty and credit woes thinning out the speculators, patience and fundamental numbers crunching will grow in importance.

This adds new urgency to a longstanding search for a new official kilogram, based, like the meter, on one of nature's fundamental numbers, called constants.

South Africa, which used to be a model for the continent, is tainted with corruption; and within the ruling African National Congress there is talk of nationalising land and mines (see article).Yet against that depressingly familiar backdrop, some fundamental numbers are moving in the right direction (see article).