In mathematics, the exponential integral Ei is a special function on the complex plane.

The order of magnitude of a number is, intuitively speaking, the number of powers of 10 contained in the number.

Regulators should insist that traded derivatives are homogenous, standardized, and transparent.

This is at an early stage, but you can show with the exponential growth of the amount of information about the brain and the exponential improvement in the resolution of brain scanning, we will succeed in reverse engineering the human brain by the 2020s.

Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.

A Network and Policy Manager and and Information Manager, located in Paris, ensure the exchange of intra network experiences and consistency of advice across the countries.

The amount of genetic data basically this shows that smooth exponential growth doubled every year, enabling the genome project to be completed.

I was a little nervous because maybe the data wouldn't be right, but I've done this now for 30 years, and it has stayed on this exponential progression.

In the very early moments, it is theorized that the universe experienced a very rapid cosmic inflation, which homogenized the starting conditions.

Culture is being sterilized, homogenized, and deprived of independence and spontaneity in all Chinese cities, not just in Tibet.

There will come a time, of course, when the exponential growth of discovery and knowledge, which actually began in the 1600s, has to peak and level off, but that's not going to matter to you.

Development coherence included progress on fronts other than FDI, such as reform of the international financial architecture and progress in the WTO Doha Round.

Of course, these fears are accompanied by the hope that structural reforms and monetary expansion work in harmony, boosting employment and output without raising inflation by much.

This new reorganization, although very ambitious, lacked the proper path to the homologation of diplomas for highly educated professionals graduated in the country or even for the ones graduated in foreign institutions.

The secretariat's findings suggest that an interesting avenue for improving developing countries' access to trade related finance and e finance could be the extensive use of the Internet to overcome information asymmetry between creditors and borrowers.

A revitalized United Nations development system, working in close harmony and with strengthened leadership by the resident coordinator at the country level, will enable more effective support to countries in pursuing their Millennium commitments, and more effective engagement in development modalities.