This was in fact a table of values of the integral of the secant function, and was the essential step needed to make practical both the making and the navigational use of Mercator charts.
Some of the biggest opportunities for Big Data to make practical gains quickly are focused on the most expensive parts of current clinical practice: Reliable, predictive alerting and retrospective reporting analytics for high-cost patients, readmissions, triage, clinical decompensation, adverse events, and treatment optimization for diseases affecting multiple organ systems [ 7].
It also seemed to make practical sense.
But they are expected to make practical business recommendations to the board.
But it's only recently that scientists have begun to make practical advances.
Some retailers – such as Gorman, are trying to make practical items pretty.
McKissick, the n ational director of CORE, was always called upon to make practical announcements concerning strategy and finances.
But independent discoverers used the idea to make practical devices, and they received virtually all of the credit for it.
"Doug and I have the engineering experience, we have the business experience" to make practical businesses that use discoveries in quantum physics, he said.
But most of the scientists I interviewed were reluctant to make practical recommendations; it's too soon, they told me, we don't know enough yet.
And it might not show quite enough data for you to make practical decisions — for example, what clothes to pack for a trip.
