Word: dome
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...morning that Ronald Reagan stood under the Capitol dome and delivered his Inaugural paean to boundless opportunity, Leander V. Gilmore, 61, of "no fixed address," was found frozen to death in an abandoned house a few miles away. The cold was kinder to many others of the capital's 10,000 or so homeless. When the icy weather kept home Inaugural partygoers, several of the hosts, including a bank and a law firm, donated their uneaten goodies to the poor. Outside a Washington shelter for the homeless, ragged street people gaped as a purple van from Ridgewell's ("caterers...
HUDDLED TOGETHER in a clear plastic cubicle, "The Dome of Silence", at CONTROL Headquarters, the Chief, Agent 86, and 99 plot strategy to thwart the latest move by the evil forces of CHAOS...
...GLITTER DOME (HBO). James Garner and John Lithgow were two burned-out detectives in this taut, cynical adaptation of Joseph Wambaugh's novel about murder in movieland. Possibly the best movie yet made...
Before the Karmarkar method, linear equations could be solved only in a cumbersome fashion, ironically known as the simplex method, devised by Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar...
Karmarkar's technique does not attempt to calculate the location of every solution but takes a circuitous route, eliminating groups of combinations without actually considering them, all the time changing the shape of the dome. The mathematician compares this search to origami, the Japanese art of paper folding: the pieces of paper are creased and shaped until the perfect corner - the long-sought solution - is in the center of the figure...