The piano reference was not arbitrary; top-level StarCraft requires as many as three hundred actions per minute, or A.P.M.; an élite practitioner's left hand, as it manipulates the keyboard, can appear almost to be playing Chopin.
LASER TREATMENT A pricey option, it requires as many as 10 or more sessions that can cost $500 to $1,500 each, but produces a "long duration" of hairlessness requiring only occasional touch-ups, Dr. Alexis said.
A Sprint Cup team can spend up to $35 million a season for each entry, which requires as many as 16 tube-frame chassis, at first glance identical but with slight variations depending on the track for which they are designed.
Each print of a film costs some $2,000 to make, and since a major movie requires as many as 5,000 prints in America alone, duplication and distribution are a huge exercise, with fleets of lorries delivering prints to cinemas in the middle of the night.
The selected approach, which will be referred to as the direct adjoint one, since it performs direct differentiation for the gradient and, then, uses the adjoint approach to compute the Hessian, requires as many as N+2 equivalent flow solutions for each Newton step.
Taking a structured algebraic codebook in G.729 as an instance (Nt = 4, Np = 1), this proposal requires N3 searches, while RCM requires as many as N4 searches.
Some locations don't have any certification or licensing requirements at all, while others require as many as 1,000 hours of instruction and passing a written licensing exam.
A complex pattern might require as many as 20,000 cards.
Changing course, he explained, would require as many as 28,000 more troops.
Other bacteria may require as many as 16 different amino acids.
This required as many as 400 carefully measured turns of the valves controlling the four-foot gates.
