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Despite supporting Ares-V I'll admit my nervousness when there was some discussion of adding a 6th RS-68 (would that make it Ares-VI?), and even had sort of historical flashback to when N-1 had problems for having too many 1st stage engines.

Delta IV Heavy is Cheaper Than Ares 1. Wow. Who Knew. - NASA Watch 2009

So clearly F1 must be greater than F3 at x = 1, and so (N-1) k1 must be greater than k3.

Another linear transmission mechanism « The Half-Baked Maker 2010

Why is it okay to tax N-1 companies extra, and then give the proceeds to Apple?

State Buys the Farm.... 2009

Protecting the skies and space around Naboo is the N-1 starfighter.

Naboo N-1 Starfighter | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

In fact, this brute-force approach requires N-factorial (N* (N-1) * (N-2) * … 2*1) calculations to determine the minimum.

Quantum computing creeps forward « Skulls in the Stars 2007

Moreover, only 1/N of this semi-active time for checking is dedicated to the actual checking of the content while N-1/N of the semi-active time is spent by thinking about the N-1 collaborators who are surely doing the work for us.

Antarctic and Sea Level « Climate Audit 2007

While such a small set does make a nice example where you can still list all similarities (0.5*N*(N-1)), it is really too artificial.

Automatic Classification of thousands of Crystal Structures Egon Willighagen 2007

While such a small set does make a nice example where you can still list all similarities (0.5*N*(N-1)), it is really too artificial.

Archive 2007-08-01 Egon Willighagen 2007

As N-1 = N where N - infinity, both Christians and atheists believe the same number of gods don't exist.

Those contemptuous atheists... why won't they be kind? Ann Althouse 2006

But if you do PCA on a network with N-1 series being signal plus white or low-order red noise and one-two HS-shaped non-signal series, then the HS series will stamp a high-order PC and seem “significant”.

Trip Report – Holland « Climate Audit 2006