Telephone orders distort the picture: the suburbanite naturally calls a local rather than a central-city number if both are listed in an advertisement, especially if the local call eliminates city sales tax.

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

The Rule of Saint Benedict is also used by a number of religious orders that began as reforms of the Benedictine tradition such as the Cistercians and Trappists although none of these groups are part of the Benedictine Confederation.

God orders Moses, in the wilderness of Sinai, to number those able to bear arms — of all the men " from twenty years old and upward ," and to appoint princes over each tribe.

Before the rise of the mendicant orders ( wandering friars ) in the thirteenth century, the daily services were usually contained in a number of large volumes.

The standard presentation of the chemical elements is in the periodic table, which orders elements by atomic number and groups them by electron configuration.

Pelton indicated this round of layoffs was due to a " stalled lackluster economy " and noted that while the number of orders cancelled for jets has been decreasing new orders have not met expectations.

There are several variables in classifying stocks ; in practice, one orders raw stock by a code number, based on desired sensitivity to light.

In the eighth century, the iconoclast decrees in Greece caused a number of religious orders to flee the Byzantine Empire and seek refuge elsewhere.

Today, a number of orders of knighthood continue to exist in several countries, such as the English Order of the Garter, the Swedish Royal Order of the Seraphim, and the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

The expedition, consisting of eleven ships and 1, 357 men under the orders of Admiral Corneille came into the bay, which they named “ Rade des Tortues ” ( literally meaning " Harbor of the Tortoises ") because of the great number of terrestrial tortoises they found there.

The term occult is also used as a label given to a number of magical organizations or orders, the teachings and practices taught by them, and to a large body of current and historical literature and spiritual philosophy related to this subject.

Thus the number of preorders is the sum of the number of partial orders on every partition.

Air pollution has increased by a significant amount as the number of cars has increased by several orders of magnitude to over 300, 000.

This proof also shows that the quotient of the orders | G | / | H | is equal to the index: H ( the number of left cosets of H in G ).

* 1281 – Kublai Khan orders the burning of sacred Taoist texts, resulting in the reduction in number of volumes of the Dao Zheng ( Taoist Canon ) from 4, 565 to 1, 120.

* Kublai Khan orders the burning of sacred Taoist texts, resulting in the reduction in number of volumes of the Daozang ( Taoist Canon ) from 4, 565 to 1, 120.

Vostrikov orders a series of diving maneuvers during which he directs Polenin to simulate a number of emergencies including fires and flooding while he times the crew's response.

In the 14th and 15th centuries the Carmelites, like a number of other religious orders, declined and reform became imperative.

While a long period is not a guarantee of quality in a random number generator, short periods ( such as the 2 < sup > 32 </ sup > common in many software packages ) can be problematic .< ref > Note: 2 < sup > 19937 </ sup > is approximately 4. 3 × 10 < sup > 6001 </ sup >; this is many orders of magnitude larger than the estimated number of particles in the observable universe, which is 10 < sup > 87 </ sup >.</ ref >

Turtletaub for a number of historical novels he has written because he and his publisher felt that the presumed lower sales of those novels might hurt book store orders for the novels he writes under his own name.

The name is applied more generally to any of the other marsupials of the Didelphimorphia and Paucituberculata orders, which includes a number of opossum species in South America.

In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

Though Catherine was vexed at the number of French officers streaming to the Turkish standard, there were several under her own, such as the Prince De Nassau ; ;

The CTCA distributed a khaki-bound songbook that provided the impetus for spirited renditions of the selections found therein, plus a number of others whose lyrics were more earthy -- from `` Johnny Get Your Gun '' to `` Keep The Home Fires Burning '' to `` Mademoiselle From Armentieres ''.

The editorial was based on a news association dispatch which said that the telegraphers had secured an agreement whereby they were guaranteed 40 hours' pay per week whether they worked or not and that a reduction in their number was limited to 2 per cent per year.

the halls were empty and they passed down the stairs to number nine and listened at the door.

Although there were no startling developments in shotgun design this year, a number of new models and variations of existing models did hit the market.

In order to reduce the number of variable parameters, all experiments were made with a constant arc length of 0.5'' '' and a current of 100 Aj.

These were increased both in number and in size, contained prominent nucleoli, and were distributed throughout the fiber ( Figs. 2 - 5 ).

For example, we are interested in the number of bull's-eyes, not which shots were bull's-eyes.

The reason for the value of this procedure was simply that the applicants were tested `` at work '' in different situations by the judgment of a number of experts who could see how the salesmen conducted themselves with different, but typical restaurant owners and managers.

Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

Occasionally they heard gun-shot signals and a number of horsemen were sighted on the hills, disappearing at the posse's approach.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

We were to discover, in fact, that quite a number of people share with us the impression that, in contrast to other Soviet regions, Moscow's atmosphere is depressingly subdued and official.

If all the operating variables were varied simultaneously, Af operations would be required to do the same job, and as R increases this increases very much more rapidly than the number of operations required by the dynamic program.

These 1750 cases were carted off in a one-night operation by the O'Banion men, who left in their stead the same number of barrels filled with water.

Future commencements were more decorous perhaps, but the number of graduates increased from the original four at a relatively slow pace.

but when a large number were `` bunched up '' or `` banded up '', and marched away from their home range, as long as they stayed together the group was said to be a `` drift ''.

As the lights came up, Andy could see that a number of patrons were already on their way toward the exit.

Among them were a number of newsmen, including Henry Raymont, of United Press International, and Robert Berrellez, of Associated Press.

Other witnesses, after appearances before the jury, which reportedly is probing into possible income tax violations, disclosed that government prosecutors were attempting to connect Stein and his company with a number of gangsters, including Glimco and Alex.

Let us look at the heavy-electrical-goods industry in which General Electric, Westinghouse and a number of other manufacturers were recently convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to rig prices and allocate the market.