The strange, delightful little character pieces with their odd and sometimes inexplicable titles are still evocative and gracious.

For this style of printer, two complete revolutions of the character drum were required with one revolution being used to print all the " odd " columns and another revolution being used to print all of the " even " columns.

* Herbert Apple-a stock boy at the hardware store, his character is distinguished by his odd speech patterns.

Therefore, they tried using a man-type character, but thought this was too odd and that " if there was a man next to Mario, there is a sense of incongruity.

For example key words like ‘ dark ’, ‘ mysterious ’ and ‘ odd ’, when integrated together, formulate a specific kind of character or ‘ action ’.

C. S. Lewis made use of this in the Chronicles of Narnia ; indeed, a character points out to two skeptics that there is no need for the time between the worlds to match up, but it would be very odd for the girl who claims to have visited a parallel universe to have dreamed up such a different time flow.

Although this notation is compact and convenient for some purposes, the most useful notation is the Legendre symbol, also called the quadratic character, which is defined for all integers a and positive odd prime numbers p as

The character also seems to have a rather large number of phobias, like being afraid of the vacuum, indulges in many odd habits, and has a knack for landing himself in peculiar situations such as gluing his shoulder to his ear, being profiled by a scary dentist, or even flying with balloons.

He is named after the banshee, a legendary ghost from Irish mythology, said to possess a powerful cry, although the banshee spirit is invariably female and the Irish Gaelic to English translation of Bean Sidhe ( Banshee ) is literally Fairy Woman, making it an odd choice for a male character ( the male version is Fear Sidhe ).

Occasionally, a character will find himself in a situation that seems familiar but during the episode some things seem odd, and then something major happens such as a lead character having a significantly different position or dying.

In his first paper about characters ( 1896 ), Frobenius constructed the character table of the group of order ( 1 / 2 )( p < sup > 3 </ sup > − p ) for all odd primes p ( this group is simple provided p > 3 ).

Their ramblings illustrate character by describing the interactions of an odd personality with a particularly telling set of circumstances.

Tanabe created these " odd " characters ; he was placed in charge of the subevents of the story, and wrote almost all of the character dialog, with the exception of the owl's and the Wind Fish's lines.

If χ is a primitive character with χ (− 1 ) = − 1, then the only zeros of L ( s, χ ) with Re ( s ) < 0 are at the negative odd integers.

Journalist Christopher Booker, a founder of the satirical magazine Private Eye, recalled the " bewitching " character of the swinging sixties: " There seemed to be no one standing outside the bubble, and observing just how odd and shallow and egocentric and even rather horrible it was.

Example: a character behaves in an odd and erratic fashion and complains continuously of a headache, then later is diagnosed with a brain tumor.

* It was derived from Nicodemus Boffin, a fictional character who appears in Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, a dustman who is described there as a " very odd looking old fellow ".

In the next film Carry On Matron ( 1972 ) his character was preoccupied with thieving, but made odd suggestive comments to nurses ( including one played by Jacki Piper, who played his daughter in this film ).

Also in 1993, Radcliffe presented Skyman, an odd show which he presented in character as a visiting alien, and all the records played were space-related.

) Each bar or space is 1, 2, 3 or 4 units wide, the sum of the widths of bars must be even, the sum of the widths of the spaces must be odd, and total 11 units per character.

Artists often differ in the way that they portray Abyss ( in fact his appearance has drastically changed within single story arcs, though no other character seemed to think this was odd ).

If a character has a signature characteristic ( odd hair, a particular accessory, etc.

Each character was 7 bits, composed of two zone bits (" X " and " O "), four BCD bits for the value of the digit, and an odd parity bit (" R ") in the following format:

In 1871 O ' Neill and an odd character named W. B. O ’ Donoghue asked the Savage Wing Council to undertake another invasion of Canada across the Dakota Territory border.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

His unconcerned stroll down the side of the house to a pear tree, with crowds already gathering in front of the building and Sawyer guarding the side door, was odd.

For they considered the odd numbers as male and the even ones as female, equating the two groups with the Yang and Yin principles in Nature ; ;

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

Everywhere there are little touches of humor, and the leader of the on-stage band of musicians is an ebullient comedian who plays all sorts of odd instruments with winning warmth.

With the exception of a few spots, Milhaud's music mostly churns away with his usual collection of ditties, odd harmonies, and lumbering, satiric orchestration.

They wore shoes with pointed toes, odd to American eyes, and narrow trousers, and their hair looked unnaturally black and slick.

All evening Anthea favored him with odd, coy looks.

In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

A board with an even number of spaces will end in a draw ( as the number of 4x4 squares will be equal for each player ); an odd numbered board will lead to the winner winning by one square ( the 4x4 squares and 2x1 half-squares will fall evenly, with one box not incorporated into the pattern falling to the winner ).

The preferred numbers commonly used as key sizes ( in bits ) are powers of two, potentially multiplied with a small odd integer.

* The Interviewer ( played by Chris Morris ): conducting real interviews with celebrities such as Andrew Morton and Jerry Springer, Morris confuses and mocks his subjects with ambiguous and odd questions.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

After she died, Young tried several jobs, and eventually moved in with friends John and Ruth Benedum and did odd jobs for them.

She uses the fanciful name Edward Wong Hau Pepelu Tivruski IV, but an odd encounter with her father reveals that her real name is Françoise Appledelhi.

The simple groups of low 2-rank are mostly groups of Lie type of small rank over fields of odd characteristic, together with five alternating and seven characteristic 2 type and nine sporadic groups.

These are more or less the groups of Lie type of odd characteristic of large rank, and alternating groups, together with some sporadic groups.

If a group has an involution with a 2-component that is a group of Lie type of odd characteristic, the goal is to show that it has a centralizer of involution in " standard form " meaning that a centralizer of involution has a component that is of Lie type in odd characteristic and also has a centralizer of 2-rank 1.