But Mercer's explanation was simple: `` I made out the check and carried it around a few days unsigned -- in case I lost it ''.

To me, the explanation is very simple.

A basic explanation as to how calculations are performed in a simple 4-function calculator:

However, more complicated systems that involve two or more particles in superposition are not amenable to such a simple, classically intuitive explanation.

Kraepelin had no evidence or explanation suggesting a congenital cause, and his assumption therefore appears to have been simple ' biologism '.

Behe maintains that the complexity of light sensitivity at the molecular level and the minute biochemical reactions required for those first “ simple patches of photoreceptor ” still defies explanation.

* A simple, concise explanation from Berkeley Multimedia Research Center

Thus the emotivist asks why not to adopt the simple explanation and say that this is all there is ; why insist that a genuine " badness " ( of murder, for example ) must be causing feelings, when a simpler explanation is available.

His simple explanation in terms of absorption of discrete quanta of light explained the features of the phenomenon and the characteristic frequency.

However, some positive symptoms lack a simple neurotransmitter-based explanation, specifically, the auditory hallucinations observed in schizophrenia.

The explanation is rather simple.

* Full physical explanation of sky color, in simple terms

* ECE 209: Sources of Phase Shift — Gives an intuitive explanation of the source of phase shift in two simple LTI systems.

For a simple visual explanation of a wormhole, consider spacetime visualized as a two-dimensional ( 2D ) surface.

One simple explanation is the mode of Persian warfare.

Beyond a simple condemnation of authoritarian value systems, Fromm used the story of Adam and Eve as an allegorical explanation for human biological evolution and existential angst, asserting that when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge, they became aware of themselves as being separate from nature while still being part of it.

A military explanation for why Odo was defeated so easily at Bordeaux and at the Battle of the River Garonne after having won 11 years earlier at the Battle of Toulouse is simple.

While the simplification of input was supposed to account for creoles ' simple grammar, there are a number of problems with this explanation:

In the absence of the forensic findings of 1560, it was often assumed that a simple accident could not be the explanation — on the basis of near-contemporary tales that Amy Dudley was found at the bottom of a short flight of stairs with a broken neck, her headdress still standing undisturbed " upon her head ", a detail that first appeared as a satirical remark in the libel Leicester's Commonwealth of 1584 and has ever since been repeated for a fact.

" The explanation is as simple as it is important.

Jonathan Bate offers the simple explanation that the court of King James was politically allied with that of Rudolph, and the characters and dramatic roles of the rulers of Sicily and Bohemia were reversed for reasons of political sensitivity.

" a simple explanation

One possible explanation is a simple shortage of oak compared with beech at the time of construction.

A simple recurrence formula to generate trigonometric tables is based on Euler's formula and the relation:

For a semiprime n = pq the value of Euler's totient function ( the number of positive integers less than or equal to n that are relatively prime to n ) is particularly simple when p and q are distinct:

where α is a simple rotation angle ( the value in radians of the angle of rotation ) and cos ( β < sub > x </ sub >), cos ( β < sub > y </ sub >) and cos ( β < sub > z </ sub >) are the " direction cosines " locating the axis of rotation ( Euler's Theorem ).

A simple numerical method is Euler's method:

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Thoroughly modern in treatment, they are at the same time, full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by no means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen Corner ', ' judgement Day, ' Gabriel's Horn, and a frustrated devil -- with a few random hallelujahs thrown in for good measure.

Amadee may have owed this partly to his relationship with the king, but Othon, who at sixty seems still to have been a simple knight, merited his position solely by his own character and ability.

The elasticity is a parameter of fluids which is not subject to simple measurement at present, and it is a parameter which is probably varying in an unknown manner with many commercial materials.

Martin and Stendler present evidence that infants and young children can and do solve many problems at a relatively simple perceptual level simply by combining objects and counting them.

This meant, concretely, that the patient could not read at all without making writing-like movements of the head or body, became easily confused by `` hasher marks '' inserted between hand-written words and thus confused the mark for one of the letters, and could recognize a simple straight line or a curved one only by tracing it.

By 800 social and cultural security had been achieved, at least on a simple plane ; ;

If, on the other hand, they opted for representation, it had to be representation per se -- representation as image pure and simple, without connotations ( at least, without more than schematic ones ) of the three-dimensional space in which the objects represented originally existed.

If he foresaw any problem because of the quality of the hymen, it was recommended that simple procedures be undertaken at once to incise the hymen or, preferably, to dilate it.

The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation.

This -- trip of his had nothing to do with her consorting with tenants, and I am going to see that everybody at Mt. Pleasant understands that simple fact.

Unlike the simple counting board used in elementary schools, very efficient suanpan techniques have been developed to do multiplication, division, addition, subtraction, square root and cube root operations at high speed.

Other technical features reveal a shaft driven behind the mask at the desired facial point, driven by a DC motor with a simple pulley and a slide screw.

The leaves form a rosette at the base of the plant, and are alternate, distichous, flat, sessile, simple, linear or lanceolate, and parallel veined, with entire margins.

Moreover, it sometimes happens that the configuration interaction expansion converges very slowly and that one cannot speak about simple one-determinant wave function at all.

In more ordinary cases Tsar Alexander III could be at once kind, simple, and even almost homely.

For the simple case where the direction of the light beam along the line SE is perpendicular to the motion of the observer then only light emitted at an angle equal to the arc cosine of the ratio of the observer's speed to the speed of light will reach the telescope.

When used by academics, an arbitrage is a transaction that involves no negative cash flow at any probabilistic or temporal state and a positive cash flow in at least one state ; in simple terms, it is the possibility of a risk-free profit at zero cost.

Applied to being the system fails to arrive at a definition for the simple reason that no difference can be found.

A simple batch processing arrangement ran only a single " job " at a time, one after another.

One of the first to appear was Tiny BASIC, a simple BASIC variant designed by Dennis Allison at the urging of Bob Albrecht of the Homebrew Computer Club.

Although the butterfly effect may appear to be an esoteric and unlikely behavior, it is exhibited by very simple systems: for example, a ball placed at the crest of a hill may roll into any of several valleys depending on, among other things, slight differences in initial position.

The brainfuck language uses a simple machine model consisting of the program and instruction pointer, as well as an array of at least 30, 000 byte cells initialized to zero ; a movable data pointer ( initialized to point to the leftmost byte of the array ); and two streams of bytes for input and output ( most often connected to a keyboard and a monitor respectively, and using the ASCII character encoding ).