" Asteroids was so popular that video arcade operators sometimes had to install larger boxes to hold the number of coins that were spent by players.

State of origin games also declined in importance, especially after an increasing number of withdrawals by AFL players.

There have been several players in the VFL / AFL who were born outside Australia and since 1982, an increasing number of players have been recruited from outside Australia through initiatives such as the Irish experiment and more recently, international scholarship programs.

The number of legitimate walks and at-bats are known for all players that year, so computing averages using the same method as in other years is straightforward.

Both leagues are considered major leagues by many baseball researchers because of the perceived high caliber of play ( for a brief time anyway ) and the number of star players featured.

In both the Olympic and BWF World competitions restrictions on the number of participants from any one country have caused some controversy because they sometimes result in excluding elite world level players from the strongest badminton nations.

If the players roll the same number, they must roll again as the first move can not be a doublet.

After rolling the dice players must, if possible, move their checkers according to the number of pips shown on each die.

In the 1960s, the Orioles farm system produced an especially large number of high-quality players and coaches and laid the foundation for two decades of on-field success.

The ten outfield players may be arranged in these positions in any combination ( for example, there may be three defenders, five midfielders, and two forwards ), and the number of players in each position determines the style of the team's play ; more forwards and fewer defenders would create a more aggressive and offensive-minded game, while the reverse would create a slower, more defensive style of play.

Any number of players may be replaced by substitutes during the course of the game.

They had finished in last place for two successive seasons, although they contained a number of promising young players.

The qualifying round is divided into two separate sessions to accommodate the large number of players.

Many players, in order to eliminate the confusion of tossing four chips to the center of the table or having change made while bets are being placed, will make a five-unit Horn High bet, which is a four-way bet with the extra unit going to one specific number.

" Advanced play " ( a variant of association play for expert players ) gives penalties to a player who runs certain hoops in a turn, to allow the opponent a chance of getting back into the game ; feats of skill such as triple peels or better, in which the partner ball ( or occasionally an opponent ball ) is caused to run a number of hoops in a turn by the striker's ball help avoid these penalties.

The 1970s were not much better, with the Indians trading away several future stars, including Graig Nettles, Dennis Eckersley, Buddy Bell and 1971 Rookie of the Year Chris Chambliss, for a number of players who made no impact.

Despite the loss, Cleveland players took home a number of awards.

There was no limit to the number of players, but there were typically ten to fifteen a-side.

Yale initially refused to join this association because of a disagreement over the number of players to be allowed per team ( relenting in 1879 ) and Rutgers were not invited to the meeting.

Although the Cowboys finished the 1989 season with a 1 – 15 record, their worst in almost 30 years, " The Trade " later allowed Dallas to draft a number of impact players to rebuild the team.

Although the team does not officially retire jersey numbers, some are kept " unofficially inactive ", so it is uncommon to find any current players wearing the number of one of the " Ring of Honor " inductees.

Larger sets such as double-twenty-one can theoretically exist but are rarely seen in retail stores, as identifying the number of pips on each domino becomes difficult, and a double-twenty-one set would have 253 pieces, far more than is normally necessary for most domino games even with eight players.

A small number of bass players tune their strings in fifths, like a cello but an octave lower ( C-G-D-A low to high ).

are few in number, briefly worded, all different in sound ; ;

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

Reduces losses from stomach, hookworm, and nodular worms by interfering with reproduction of the female worm by reducing the number of eggs laid and essentially rendering all laid eggs sterile.

In all `` degree '' courses in interior design a number of `` academic '' or `` general studies '' courses are included.

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.

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.

For an experiment to qualify as a binomial experiment, it must have four properties: ( 1 ) there must be a fixed number of trials, ( 2 ) each trial must result in a `` success '' or a `` failure '' ( a binomial trial ), ( 3 ) all trials must have identical probabilities of success, ( 4 ) the trials must be independent of each other.

First, for any value of T for which all values of f{t} are ordinary points the number of values of f{t} must be odd.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.

Cell dimensions, number of formula units per cell, space group, and specific gravity are given for all substances.

The vast number of compounds to be covered, the limited resources to do the job, and the immediate need for this type of compilation precluded a thorough evaluation of all available data in the present edition.

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.

Three seconds flat is the usual time, and the space is crossed by moderate mileage, while the overwhelming immensity of such journeys must be conceived as a static pulsation through an enormous number of coexistent frequencies which perpetuate all events.

The body, senses and brain, in common with all matter, have their counterpart on each of a countless number of frequencies.

The importance of this 5 can largely be explained by the natural mathematical properties of the middle number and its special relationship to all the rest of the numbers -- quite apart from any numerological considerations, which is to say, any symbolic meaning arbitrarily assigned to it.

If one takes the middle number, 5, and multiplies it by 3 ( the base number of the magic square of three ), the result is 15, which is also the constant sum of all the rows, columns, and two main diagonals.

Although the primary mathematical properties of the middle number at the center of the Lo Shu, and the interrelation of all the other numbers to it, might seem enough to account for the deep fascination which the Lo Shu held for the Old Chinese philosophers, this was actually only a beginning of wonders.

Alexandre Livshitz repeated a fantastic technical bit from the closing number, `` Taras Bulba '', but even then there was a substantial number of diehards who seemed determined not to go home at all.