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We carried out five cross-validation experiments on the new dataset, setting aside one-fifth as a test set and taking the remaining four-fifths for training.
For many years, Menorca — one-fifth the area of Mallorca, with a tenth the population — was one of the best-kept secrets in the Mediterranean.
(The WP informs that fully one-fifth of the Senate--19 senators--appeared on the Sunday shows.)
Which would be of no small interest to the U.S. economy--the Times and Wall Street Journal each point out that Latin America now accounts for one-fifth of all U.S. exports.
The reconstruction of one-fifth of the town recaptures life as it was in the summer of 1744, a year before the first great British siege, and 16 years before it was destroyed.