What is "unknowns"

Usage examples of "unknowns".

Using his known or assumed plaintext values, the cryptanalyst sets up equations in which the displacements of the several rotors constitute the unknowns, and then, using higher algebra, solves the equations for them.

I was desperately afraid those unknowns would break open my shell and leave me to die in space.

The unknowns are flying at an altitude of fifteen thousand three hundred meters at a constant speed of two hundred ninety meters per second, bearing seventy-seven degrees grid north and heading straight for your position.

It calls upon the resources of higher mathematics, especially group theory, whose techniques are particularly suited to handle the many unknowns involved in a rotor solution.

But at that speed, the two unknowns would be able to do considerable damage to the building you’re in simply by crashing into it.

It seems obvious that the unknowns shot down our interceptors somehow.

He claimed he was just trying to do his job, and the presence of unknowns like the Hrrubans made it more difficult for him.

The imprinted caution of generations had prevented Furra from trying to contact the unknowns when they first appeared.

But the unknowns had launched their own fighters with unexpected promptness, and those fighters had come to grips with the Bugs shortly before Thaamaandaan and his fellows could join the battle.

As the com officer fumbled to obey, she watched data codes blossom beside the icons of the unknowns on her plot as the computers received more sensor data.

We haven't a clue as to who the unknowns are, but at least we can give you a rough count of their order of battle by ship types: twelve monitors, sixty superdreadnoughts, sixteen assault carriers, twenty fleet carriers, sixty battlecruisers and forty-eight heavy cruisers.

So a titanic battle-line engagement now rose to crescendo, echoing on a larger scale the battle still raging between the unknowns and the remnants of the Bugs' Warp Point Two defense force.

Mathematicians call this an equation in two unknowns, and a single such equation has no unique solution.

True it is that in the cryptanalytic case of an equation in two unknowns, some solutions are more probable than others.

Basically these unknowns are the paths taken by the wires of each rotor from one face to the other.