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( If a mustard seed is 3 mm in diameter, then taking one seed every 100 years from a seven-mile cube of seeds, would take 936 quintillion years, 68 billion times the age of the universe.
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" If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ' move from here to there ' and it will move.
Ibn Killis then informed Al-Muizz it was written in " the book of the Nazarenes " ( meaning the New Testament ) that, " If you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to the mountain move from here to there, and it will move " ( Matt.
If grown as a green manure, the mustard plants are cut down at the base when sufficiently grown, and left to wither on the surface, continuing to act as a mulch until the next crop is due for sowing, when the mustard is dug in.
If and seed
If grown from seed kōwhai can take many years to flower, the number of years varies depending on the species.
If the process where separate saccharification and fermentation occurs is desired, the seed mash is typically not used as a main mash is never actually produced.
If Whitebark Pine declines into extinction, the Clark's Nutcracker will lose an important source of food and may no longer be seen in areas where Whitebark Pine is the primary source of seed, such as Glacier National Park.
If the tree germinates from seeds, it will not fruit for about seven years, and there may be some genetic change to the tree or fruit in the event of seed propagation.
If an exact match is found, this match is used to seed a possible un-gapped alignment between the query and database sequences.
If thrum pollen is placed on a thrum stigma, or pin pollen on a pin stigma, the reproductive cells are incompatible and relatively little seed is set.
If the previous-to-last seed also brought an opponent's house to two or three, these are captured as well, and so on.
# If the last sown seed lands in an empty house owned by the player, and the opposite house contains seeds, both the last seed and the opposite seeds are captured and placed into the player's store.
If the last sowed seed lands in an occupied pit ( without resulting in a capture, see below ), then all seeds in that pit, including the one just placed, are immediately sown, before the opponent's turn.
If the last seed sown lands in one of the player's eight inner pits, which is occupied, and furthermore both the opponent's pits in this same column are occupied, then all seeds from these two pits are captured and sown starting from the pit where this capturing lap began ( i. e., from the last pit scooped, NOT from the original hole from the very beginning of the turn ).
If the last seed ends in an occupied pit, then all the seeds in that pit including the last one are resown starting from that pit.
If the first seed is placed in a marker pit, a capture occurs, and the player's turn will be called a mtaji turn.
If and is
If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.
If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.
If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.
If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.
If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.
If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.
If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.
If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??
If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.
If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.
If and 3
If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.
If Acorn had thought to include this small modification in the original Electron design it is likely the machine would have had a much greater impact as it would have nearly doubled the amount of motion possible in games and saved modes 0 – 3 ( including the only 16 colour mode ) from being nearly useless due to contended memory timings.
If the maximum gain is 0 dB, the 3 dB gain is the range where the gain is more than-3dB, or the attenuation is less than + 3dB.
If however it was possible to have two of any one kind of fruit there would be 3 more combinations: one with two apples, one with two oranges, and one with two pears.
If there is still a tie, each atom in each of the two lists is replaced with a sub-list of the other atoms bonded to it ( at distance 3 from the stereocenter ), the sub-lists are arranged in decreasing order of atomic number, and the entire structure is again compared atom by atom.
If the substituents are numbered from 1 ( highest priority ) to 4 ( lowest priority ), then the sense of rotation of a curve passing through 1, 2 and 3 distinguishes the stereoisomers.
If is an outward pointing in-plane normal, whereas is the unit vector perpendicular to the plane ( see caption at right ), then the orientation of C is chosen so that a tangent vector to C is positively oriented if and only if forms a positively oriented basis for R < sup > 3 </ sup > ( right-hand rule ).
If ( x < sub > 1 </ sub >, x < sub > 2 </ sub >, x < sub > 3 </ sub >) are the Cartesian coordinates and ( u < sub > 1 </ sub >, u < sub > 2 </ sub >, u < sub > 3 </ sub >) are the orthogonal coordinates, then
If a vector field F with zero divergence is defined on a ball in R < sup > 3 </ sup >, then there exists some vector field G on the ball with F = curl ( G ).
If the ether is part of a more complex molecule, it is described as an alkoxy substituent, so-OCH < sub > 3 </ sub > would be considered a " methoxy -" group.
# If the remainder from dividing N by 6 is not 2 or 3 then the list is simply all even numbers followed by all odd numbers ≤ N
# If the remainder is 3, move 2 to the end of even list and 1, 3 to the end of odd list ( i. e. 4, 6, 8, 2-5, 7, 9, 1, 3 )
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