For N finite, we look for a configuration which is optimal with respect to some property, but which may be poor with respect to another property.
We call this problem the covering problem since we are looking for a family of configurations that covers each and every test.
The experimenters could then observe the membrane's change of configuration by looking for a change in the system's capacitance, a measure of how well it can store electrical charge.
The House override vote was originally expected on Wednesday, but Tim Moore, the Republican Speaker of the House, delayed it, looking for the exact configuration of legislator absences to maximize chances of an override what he referred to as a "veto-opportunity zone".
In this formulation we are looking for several configurations at once, so that each test is covered by at least one configuration.
In our model the x-coordinate of Shuttle k (for k∈{0,1,…,7}) will be denoted by S 2k and its y-coordinate by S 2k+1: those two expressions are variables since we are looking for "good" configurations and the goal of the model is to find them.
If one looks for an evolution equation for the configuration compatible with the space-time symmetries of Schrödinger's equation, one almost immediately arrives at the guiding equation in this simpler form as the simplest possibility.
Indeed, astronomers look for similar configurations — a giant outer planet with room for smaller planets in closer to the home stars — in other planetary systems as an indication of their hospitableness to life.
We look for a low-rank approximation.
"I've always been drawn to geometry and linear composition," said Malin, who would tether himself into a helicopter, then lean out of it traveling 60 to 100 mph, looking for specific moments and configurations — pink and white chaise longues, perhaps, forming a symmetrical pattern on a Miami beach.
