Sentence examples for length of a string from inspiring English sources

In acoustics, the Greeks discovered the correspondence between the pitch of a note and the length of a string.

The pitches produced by dividing the length of a string were the basis of the three non-East Asian music theories.

British composer John Lely asks cellist Anton Lukoszevieze to produce seamless glissandi by gradually sliding up the full length of a string, soft finger pressure being the order of the day.

NCD uses the compressed length of a string as an approximation to its Kolmogorov complexity and has previously been used for music genre and composer clustering.

Deciding if τ is a suffix tree is not an easy task, because, with no restrictions on the final symbol, we cannot guess the length of a string that realizes τ from the number of leaves.

The number of constraints can thus be mapped to the length of a string to be matched.

And without an upper bound on the length of such a string, it is not even clear how to solve the problem by an exhaustive search.

It stems from the identification that musical pitch can be related to the length of a plucked string.

Consider the case of a pendulum with two point-masses along the length of a rigid string.

However, the arithmetic average is a float, and we also meet a problem of the specification of the length of a binary string needed for its representation (it also determines the length of the password in bits).

The oddness – and poignancy – of the found objects nestling in its hollows: the spout of a child's watering can, a three-pronged slate splitter, a length of brown string, a china egg.