If he is not told which of four or five readings was meant for him, he can more readily assess each item in a larger frame: `` Does that statement really sound as if it were for me, significant in my particular life??

If I'd stayed, all that I'd have got was four punctured tires and one busted head.

If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

" If you have any sense of humor about your strip — and I had a sense of humor about mine — you knew that for three or four years Abner was wrong.

If the auction is passed out, i. e. no bids are made and only four passes are called, the hands are abandoned and the turn to deal passes in rotation.

If all four players pass in the first round, the deal is not played ; in rubber bridge the deal is not scored and the hand is redealt by the original dealer, while in duplicate the score is recorded as zero for each pair and returned to the board.

In 1986, Prince Philip commented on Chinese eating habits at the World Wildlife Fund conference: " If it has four legs and is not a chair, if it has two wings and flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it.

If the cow does react, it would take at least four people to push it over, according to the results.

If both criticism and translation apply to a single title, the number expands into four lines.

If only layer C changes, we should find a way to avoid re-blending all of the layers when computing F. Without any special considerations, four full-image blends would need to occur.

If the spacecraft detects an anomaly, it changes the carrier between four tones, based on urgency.

If Paul was the author of the letter, then it was probably written from Rome during Paul's first imprisonment (; ; ), and probably soon after his arrival there in the year 62, four years after he had parted with the Ephesian elders at Miletus.

If there is a grain of historical truth behind these legends, it may be that Suizei's bare narrative points to one of the chieftains of four clans of the Unebi region who disputed among themselves in the struggle to achieve hegemeony in the Yamato area.

If not, the dates would be later by four years.

If this triangulated graph is colorable using four colors or less, so is the original graph since the same coloring is valid if edges are removed.

If all four neighbors of v are different colors, say red, green, blue, and yellow in clockwise order, we look for an alternating path of vertices colored red and blue joining the red and blue neighbors.

If the match duration is three or four days, the minimum lead is 150 runs.

If power fails, all essential equipment will run off huge batteries for up to 20 minutes, during which time four one-megawatt diesel generators will take over.

If not blocked or countered, the open row of three will be extended to an open row of four, which threatens to win in two ways.

If a member of the executive committee quits or dies, the other four members appoint his or her replacement.

If A and B are distinguishable particles, then the composite system has four distinct states:,,, and.

If the subject still wished to stop after all four successive verbal prods, the experiment was halted.

If they did exist, both Gauss's law for magnetism and Faraday's law would need to be modified, and the resulting four equations would be fully symmetric under the interchange of electric and magnetic fields ; see magnetic monopoles for details.

If the molecule can be rotated in space so that the directions of those four groups match those of the analog groups in-glyceraldehyde's C2, then the isomer receives the '-' prefix.

If T is a linear operator on an arbitrary vector space and if there is a monic polynomial P such that Af, then parts ( A ) and ( B ) of Theorem 12 are valid for T with the proof which we gave.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

If S is an arbitrary set, then the set S < sup > N </ sup > of all sequences in S becomes a complete metric space if we define the distance between the sequences ( x < sub > n </ sub >) and ( y < sub > n </ sub >) to be, where N is the smallest index for which x < sub > N </ sub > is distinct from y < sub > N </ sub >, or 0 if there is no such index.

If the source is located at an arbitrary source point, denoted by the vector and the field point is located at the point, then we may represent the scalar Green's function ( for arbitrary source location ) as:

If the subject could so judge his own superior, then all lawful superior authority could lawfully be overthrown by the arbitrary judgement of an inferior, and thus all law was under constant threat.

If r represents an arbitrary element of R, f can be viewed as a right R-homomorphism so that, or f can also be viewed as a left R module homomorphism, where.

If the former, then justice is arbitrary ; if the latter, then morality exists on a higher order than God, who becomes little more than a passer-on of moral knowledge.

One can use that instruction, which is usually faster than a comparison against some arbitrary value ( requiring a subtraction ), to implement the command " If i ≤ 0, then exit the loop ".

If the inclination is zero or 180 degrees ( π radians ), the azimuth is arbitrary.

If the radius is zero, both azimuth and inclination are arbitrary.

" If we placed a living organism in a box ... one could arrange that the organism, after any arbitrary lengthy flight, could be returned to its original spot in a scarcely altered condition, while corresponding organisms which had remained in their original positions had already long since given way to new generations.

If the strategy ever called for moving on the square already chosen, the first player can then make another arbitrary move.

If a feature was intended to be located from the center of the part, the operator needs to locate it from the center of the model, not, perhaps, from a more convenient edge or an arbitrary point, as he could when using " dumb " solids.

If we consider an arbitrary constant, then average availability is represented as

If arbitrary values and / or functions are used in place of one or more of the numerators or the integers in the denominators, the resulting expression is a generalized continued fraction.

If one allows arbitrary temperature dependence of the prefactor, the Arrhenius description becomes overcomplete, and the inverse problem ( i. e., determining the prefactor and activation energy from experimental data ) becomes singular.

If ( for some arbitrary reason ) the cone's proportions have to stay the same, and the height and radius are in a fixed ratio k,

If the arbitrary area for excavation is wisely chosen, the sequence should be revealed and excavation can return to a truly stratigraphic method.

The reasoning behind existential elimination (∃ E ) is as follows: If it is given that there exists an element for which the proposition function is true, and if a conclusion can be reached by giving that element an arbitrary name, that conclusion is necessarily true, as long as it does not contain the name.

must be true for all values of c over the same domain X ; else, the logic does not follow: If c is not arbitrary, and is instead a specific element of the domain of discourse, then stating P ( c ) might unjustifiably give more information about that object.

If data of arbitrary length is to be encrypted, a simple strategy is to split the data into blocks each matching the cipher's block size, and encrypt each block separately using the same key.

If a function is defined on an interval and is an antiderivative of, then the set of all antiderivatives of is given by the functions, where C is an arbitrary constant.

If n is arbitrary, i. e., if the system is insensitive to any rotation, then every component of L is conserved ; in short, angular momentum is conserved.