Differential used in a sentence

Differential in a sentence as a noun

The NY Times really needs to stop with the nickel and dime differential pricing tactics.

The article isn't saying that isn't dangerous, it is saying that speed differential is more dangerous than speed.

It's a redo of calculus using differential geometry from the start.

That might mean that the differential is lower than 8% in those other 3 cities, or it might mean they filtered out 3 outlier cities, we don't know.

The NSA asked IBM to not reveal that security against differential attacks was a design goal.

By charging people this fee when their order does cross the spread and not giving them the rebate when it doesn't there's an easy differential to capture.

In about 10 lines of code you can solve equations, do state of the art numerical optimization or solve differential equations.

Differential in a sentence as an adjective

Because of the power differential between the selfish miners and the others, the chances of the selfish miners mining on their own private branch and overtaking the main branch are small.

The "meat and potatoes" of the problem involve putting a differential equation into weak form and evaluating a bunch of integrals to compute matrix elements.

Thus you frequently see poetic statements like "my cat is great at solving differential equations", or "music is math because it's all about harmonic series and Fourier analysis".

To out-pedant you: even assuming that the differential collision attacks we know about are incorrect [1], we absolutely know how to break SHA-1 given enough compute, that is, roughly the same resources needed to break RSA-1024.

"Speaking of special privileges, the extraordinary differential between the 15% tax rate that capitalists pay on carried interest, dividends, and capital gains, and the 35% top marginal rate on work that ordinary Americans pay, is kind of hard to justify without a touch of deification.

But by the far the biggest differential that I see comes with the value-add piece: with YC, founders pay a price in terms of equity they give up but they get huge benefits from becoming part of a network that keys them in to relationships and solutions that can prove invaluable to an early-stage startup.