In the denominator, we just have a 6y.

The denominator of the gymnosophist's life was infinity.

Every time we divided the numerator and the denominator by 2, now the numerator and the denominator by 3, so we're not changing the expression.

And so, the denominator of Alexander's life was one.

Then in the denominator, we have 2ab times 18xy squared.

You can't run a society by the lowest common denominator.

And so my TED wish is based on the common denominator of these experiences.

The only common denominator uniting them is, in the last analysis, the literal interpretation of the Charter.

What is important is that we find a common denominator among the overwhelming majority of Member countries.

Thinking it through, I realized that all those attributes must be changed to move T to the denominator.

If you divide the denominator by y, you just get a y, and so what are we left with?

If multilateralism is to be truly effective, it cannot be based on a search for the least common denominator.

We need a multilateralism that is based on common principles, not on the lowest common denominator of the day.

And regardless of whether it's nuclear reactors or metamaterials or whale sex, the common or lowest common denominator is me.

We took what we knew about Africa, the default device, the mobile phone, as our common denominator, and went from there.

Now, the mathematically minded will see immediately that T in the numerator increases impact a bad thing but T in the denominator decreases impact.

How many of us here, as TEDsters in the audience, spend more of our time in the bottom half of this equation, in the denominator?

We will try to see to what extent we can produce a common denominator from those models if need be, by introducing some new ideas.

Most OFDI was located in neighbouring countries, with the ethnicity factor playing an important role and the timing of recent liberalization being a common denominator.

So when we multiply, you just multiply the numerator and multiply the denominator, so you have 3x squared y times 14a squared b in the numerator.

I hope I've convinced you that, for diseases like cancer, obesity and other conditions, that there may be a great power in attacking their common denominator angiogenesis.

One common denominator of the privatization process in a number of regions is that privatization tends to concentrate most land rights in the hands of a minority.

So I ask, What would move T, technology, from the numerator call it T1 where it increases impact, to the denominator call it T2 where it reduces impact?

It narrows government budget deficits by increasing tax revenues and limiting welfare spending. By raising the denominator of the debt GDP ratio, it enhances confidence in debt sustainability.

Such real debates as there are tend to focus on process rather than substance and many so called decisions simply reflect the lowest common denominator of widely different opinions.

It had become clear that the greatest common denominator among the developing countries was poverty, and the main consequence of that situation was the destruction of the environment and natural resources.

The Shannon report was not easily arrived at it was the result of hard negotiations, the common denominator of all the interests concerned representing a delicate balance of concerns for all the parties.

They should be given the special treatment they deserve to ensure that their concerns are not diluted through clustering with other groups or through the application of the lowest common denominator to all developing countries.

It is vital that we do not waste this unique opportunity for significant reform of the United Nations and, at all costs, avoid squandering this chance in petty point scoring or negotiations to the lowest common denominator.

In total, there are more than 70 major diseases affecting more than a billion people worldwide, that all look on the surface to be different from one another, but all actually share abnormal angiogenesis as their common denominator.

Attempts to convert national incomes into a common denominator are fraught with complications. To take one prominent example, there is a 25 margin of error on purchasing power parity comparisons between GDP in the United States and China.

In these partnerships, I have also learned that people tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share nature, when we share our perspectives about nature, we find a common denominator.

From now on, we must think of the Charter as, politically, the lowest common denominator uniting us in a world that is globalizing but culturally fragmenting a world where there are no common strategic, political, economic or cultural perceptions.

The only numbers that will make this expression undefined are the ones that would make the denominator equal to 0, and those are the situation, or that situation would occur, when either a, b, x, or y is equal to 0.

The current formula, maintaining the status quo, offers the highest common denominator. With this strategic understanding, there is good reason to expect that Hu s talks with Bush on Taiwan s recent termination of the National Unification Council will serve to reduce tensions.

There is a danger of taking this thought experiment too far. Getting caught up in factoring in all of the different perspectives would cause decision making to gravitate toward the lowest common denominator, with outcomes that achieve very little for anyone.

In Warsaw and beyond, it is vitally important that the international community reaches a sufficiently high common denominator in limiting greenhouse gas emissions. If not, we will not be able to limit the global temperature increase to a sustainable level.

Of the relevant factors identified in the host countries, one common denominator seems to be a certain resistance to explicitly recognizing that there is a demand for the labour supplied by immigrants, or aliens, in spite of the scientific evidence proving that demand exists and attracts migrant workers.

Consistent with what was stated on that occasion, and with a view to the next review conference, my delegation wishes to reiterate its concern that the agreements reached thus far continue to be diluted and that instruments are being adopted on the basis of the lowest common denominator.

Third, while ECB policies keep borrowing costs lower, private and public debt in the periphery countries, as a share of GDP, is high and still rising, because the denominator of the debt ratio nominal GDP is barely increasing. Thus, debt sustainability will remain an issue for these economies over the medium term.

Now, this is very important, because what it's telling you is your brain is engaging in a primitive it's just it looks like a silly illusion, but these photons in your eye are doing this shape, and hair cells in your ear are exciting the auditory pattern, but the brain is able to extract the common denominator.

But coalition rule can also often mean governance of the lowest common denominator, as resistance by any of the government s significant members to a policy can delay or even thwart it. In India s parliamentary system, if a coalition loses its majority, the government falls, and keeping allies together can sometimes prove a greater priority than getting things done.

It is suicidal for the EU to draw on Europe s worst political traditions, the common denominator of which is the idea that evil must be appeased and that the best way to achieve peace is through indifference to the freedom of others. Just the opposite is true such policies expose an indifference to one s own freedom and pave the way for war.

Unlike the US, the EU s difficulties stem not from a perceived lack of legitimacy or crude attempts at promoting democracy, but from a real lack of unity and, therefore, influence. The absence of a common denominator among EU governments positions has hardly been conducive to the emergence of the cogent and reliable diplomacy needed to address the Middle East s deep problems.

There was the US government s eleventh hour decision to table hundreds of objections to the final Summit Declaration, effectively reducing it to a series of lowest common denominator platitudes. There was also skepticism among developing countries about whether a stronger UN commitment to human rights was what Annan claimed it to be or, instead, merely a moral flag of convenience or worse, a legal warrant for Western military intervention.