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  • adverb In a polynomial way.

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  • If I may geek out here for a moment — math-geek out, that is — the expense of doing f/x should rise polynomially — quadratically, in fact — with the (linear) size of the negative.

    Dark Knight Director Shuns Digital Effects for the Real Thing « Isegoria 2008

  • If you look at the CO2 forcing above it looks pretty linear, but how about the total radiative forcing, because, our new hero's are claiming that.......greenhouse gas forcing, global temperature and solar irradiance are not polynomially cointegrated and AGW is refuted.

    Idiots Delight EliRabett 2010

  • If you look at the CO2 forcing above it looks pretty linear, but how about the total radiative forcing, because, our new hero's are claiming that.......greenhouse gas forcing, global temperature and solar irradiance are not polynomially cointegrated and AGW is refuted.

    Archive 2010-03-01 EliRabett 2010

  • He also stressed that although one could in principle ˜squeeze™ information of exponential complexity into polynomially many quantum states, the real problem lay in the efficient retrieval of this information.

    Quantum Computing Hagar, Amit 2007

  • (If a Hamiltonian is a sum of polynomially many local terms, then certainly one can simulate it efficiently on a quantum computer — see here for some pointers to the literature.)

    Humankind’s Basic Picture of the Universe Sean 2006

  • The one universal rule is that the amount of stock an employee gets decreases polynomially with the age of the company.

    How to Fund a Startup 2005

  • We observe that a simple formulation gives rise to systems at least as strong as Frege --- yielding a semantic way to define a Cook-Reckhow (i.e., polynomially verifiable) algebraic analogue of Frege proofs, different from that given in [BIKPRS96, GH03].

    langreiter.com simple plainness 2010

  • We observe that a simple formulation gives rise to systems at least as strong as Frege --- yielding a semantic way to define a Cook-Reckhow (i.e., polynomially verifiable) algebraic analogue of Frege proofs, different from that given in [BIKPRS96, GH03].

    langreiter.com simple plainness 2010

  • Polynomially harmonizable processes and finitely polynomially determined Levy processes

    AvaxHome RSS: 2009

  • But Plancherel's theorem shows that there can only be polynomially many such large Fourier coefficients, so by the pigeonhole principle, is equal to a constant for a polynomially dense set of x, and the claim follows.

    What's new 2009

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  • "I haven't had as much as a square of cracker all day", the parrot said polynomially.

    November 14, 2008