He bent and picked up a golf ball, and pointed to a set of numbers stamped on it.
Hollywood used to have a set of numbers -- waist circumference, face shape, beard length -- that Santas were supposed to adhere to, Kliner said.
The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.
Today's facial-recognition systems use a camera to zoom in on an individual's eyes, mouth and nose, and extract a "feature vector, " a set of numbers that describes key aspects of the image, such as the precise distance between the eyes. (Remember, in the end, digital images are just numbers.) Those numbers can be fed back into a large database of faces in search of a match.
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Unlike the original Kisai Rogue SR2, its wooden successor is a combination of maple and sandalwood wrapped around a prominent always-on LCD lined with a circle of connecting blocks in place of a traditional set of numbers.
And by loading in a different set of numbers, it can be reconfigured in the twinkling of an eye.
"It's kind of a mind-boggling set of numbers, " said Barry Popkin, the program's principal investigator.
However, said Dr Aviv, these results were produced when Pins and patterns were picked from a 50-strong set of numbers and shapes.
Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administration of Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.
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The government set itself a target of doubling cyclist numbers between 1996 and 2002.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy.
Analysts produced a range of interpretations of the latest set of jobless numbers.
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Sales will continue, raw numbers are going to continue to climb, but the market share numbers have been strong due to a unique set of circumstances that are unlikely to happen again.
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The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy, adding to concerns that the government could become stricter on the property market in response to a pickup in house prices.
But oil and gas reserve numbers only make sense in the context of a particular set of technologies and pricing levels.
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He once relayed a story about how he set up an encryption puzzle based on the manipulation of prime numbers.
Jobs look set to go at one of Scotland's largest airports after a significant drop in passenger numbers.
The last Labour government set itself a target of ending child poverty by 2020 but failed to meet its goal of halving the numbers by 2010-11.
At the weekend, numbers inside Dale Farm were boosted by the arrival of supporters who have set up a protest called Camp Constant.
We are certainly beginning to challenge the notion of a classroom that was set up over 100 years ago in the light of an industrial revolution, that required vast numbers of people to be filled up with knowledge to be thrown into the workplace quickly, the smokestack school in more than one sense.
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