The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

The number of letters in an alphabet can be quite small.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

The alphabet of Marin Drinov was used until the orthographic reform of 1945 when the letters yat, called " double e "), and yus, called " big yus " or " ъ кръстато ") were removed from the alphabet, reducing the number of letters to 30.

Within constellations having an extremely large number of stars, Bayer eventually advanced to upper-case Latin letters, as in G Scorpii ( G of the Scorpion ) and N Velorum ( N of the Sails ).

The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

E is currently held in El Escorial and contains the largest number of songs ( 406 Cantigas, plus the Introduction and the Prologue ); it contains 41 carefully detailed miniatures and many illuminated letters.

With eleven keys in a 3 / 4 / 4 arrangement, 43 symbols could be arranged allowing for lowercase text, numbers and a modest number of punctuation symbols to be represented along with a ' shift ' function for accessing uppercase letters.

Note that the number of points used in braille computing is not 6, but 8, as this allows the user, among other things, to distinguish between small and capital letters, as well as identify the position of the cursor.

A number of works by Columbanus survive, including a monastic rule ( the Regula monachorum ), a number of letters, and some poetry ( see Columcille the Scribe ).

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

The South Korean army issues two long, rectangular tags with oval ends, stamped ( in Korean letters ) with " Ryuk Gun " (" Army ") above personal number, with name below that and blood group at bottom.

Books are catalogued in ascending numerical order ; when two or more books have the same classification number, the system sub-divides the class alphabetically, by the use of a call number ( usually the first letter, or letters, of the author's last name, or the title if there is no identifiable author.

Length may be understood in terms of orthography and number of written letters, or ( less commonly ) phonology and the number of phonemes.

Diacritical marks and non-English letters are ignored, while numerical entries such as " 1812, War of " are alphabetised as if the number had been written out (" Eighteen-twelve, War of ").

From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

) We do, however, provide a limited number of extra suits, mainly for children, and we stock extra towels and a few inexpensive bathing conveniences.

The differentiation, however, is not very much greater, as shown by the fact that Athabascan shows 3.46 stems per meaning slot as against 2.75 for Yokuts, with a slightly greater number of languages represented in our sample: 24 as against 21.

A number of foods are quite acceptable as regards taste and palatability, however, at dosages substantially less than sterilization levels.

Melies, however, out of his professional instincts as a magician, discovered and made use of a number of illusionary techniques that remain part of the vocabulary of film.

Venturesome traders, however, continued to come to them from Mobile, and to obtain a considerable number of pelts for the French markets.

It should be added, however, that a number of individual Orthodox theologians hold that under no circumstances would it be possible to recognise the validity of Anglican Orders.

Some subfields of R have nontrivial field automorphisms, which however do not extend to all of R ( because they cannot preserve the property of a number having a square root in R ).

Thus, almost all positive integers are composite ( not prime ), however there are still an infinite number of primes.

It is improbable, however, that the production of amber was limited to a single species ; and indeed a large number of conifers belonging to different genera are represented in the amber-flora.

In reality, however, the number of chariots in Ahab's forces was probably closer to number in the hundreds ( this due to archaeological excavations of the area and the foundations of stables that had been found ).

Alfred however was still forced to contend with a number of Danish threats.

Some folk etymologies argue that the original forms of these symbols indicated their value through the number of angles they contained, however there is no proof of any such origin.

The below numbers are not true ANAC numbers ; however, they do read back one's phone number.

This analysis neglects other potential bottlenecks such as memory bandwidth and I / O bandwidth, if they do not scale with the number of processors ; however, taking into account such bottlenecks would tend to further demonstrate the diminishing returns of only adding processors.

In a healthy individual, the number of CD4 + lymphocytes is in balance with the cells generated by the bone marrow ; however, in HIV-positive patients, this balance is lost due to an inability of the bone marrow to regenerate CD4 + cells.

272 ) estimate of 470, 000 as the number of the slave-population ; it is clear, however, that the number must have been out of all proportion to that of the free inhabitants.

The Industrial Revolution, however, resulted in large changes and Accrington ’ s location on the confluence of a number of streams made it attractive to industry and a number of mills were built in the town in the mid-eighteenth century.

They speak a number of subdialects of the Aimaq dialect of Persian, however some southern groups of Taymani and Maleki Aymaqs have adopted Pashto.

Lemaître, however, thought thatIf the world has begun with a single quantum, the notions of space and time would altogether fail to have any meaning at the beginning ; they would only begin to have a sensible meaning when the original quantum had been divided into a sufficient number of quanta.

The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.

Suetonius, however, with wonderful resolution, marched amidst a hostile population to Londinium, which, though undistinguished by the name of a colony, was much frequented by a number of merchants and trading vessels.