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number and speculative
Toward the turn of the twentieth century, a number of anthropologists became dissatisfied with this categorization of cultural elements ; historical reconstructions also came to seem increasingly speculative to them.
While it is clear that the Christmas tree originates in Renaissance and early modern Germany, there are a number of speculative theories as to its ultimate origin.
The speculative equation factors in: the rate of star formation in the galaxy ; the fraction of stars with planets and the number per star that are habitable ; the fraction of those planets which develop life, the fraction of intelligent life, and the further fraction of detectable technological intelligent life ; and finally the length of time such civilizations are detectable.
A number of speculative ideas have appeared that attempt to explain the relationship between time and eternity, which have bearing on the subject of predestination.
A speculative solution is that many or all of these possibilities are realised in one or another of a huge number of universes, but that only a small number of them are habitable, and hence the fundamental constants of the universe are ultimately the result of the anthropic principle rather than a consequence of the theory of everything.
The product number is speculative, as it does not appear anywhere on the module itself.
There are nevertheless a number of speculative hypotheses.
While these tests and experiments were going on, JPL performed a number of speculative studies for planetary aerobot missions to Mars, Venus, Saturn's moon Titan, and the outer planets.
As discussed in the article on the business cycle, economists attribute the ups and downs in the business cycle to a number of causes including: overproduction of goods followed by large inventories that cannot be readily sold, overexpansion of credit resulting in piling up of debt that inhibits purchasing ; speculative bubbles, and shocks — like wars, political upheavals, and so on.
The investment potential of the club's new backers resulted in a number of wildly speculative storylines in the football press throughout the 2007 – 08 season including rumoured signings of former World Player of the Year winners Luís Figo and Zinedine Zidane ( the latter as a possible manager ).
Once the bubble bursts, the fall in prices causes the collapse of unsustainable investment schemes ( especially speculative and / or Ponzi investments, but not exclusively so ), which leads to a crisis of consumer ( and investor ) confidence that may result in a financial panic and / or financial crisis ; if there is monetary authority like a central bank, it may be forced to take a number of measures in order to soak up the liquidity in the financial system or risk a collapse of its currency.
A number of speculative fiction works present a dystheistic perspective, at least as far back as the works of H. P. Lovecraft and Olaf Stapledon's influential philosophical short novel Star Maker.
However, the number of participants for either side — or in total — is entirely speculative.
Estimates of the number of war children fathered by German soldiers during World War II are difficult to gauge, and are speculative to some extent given the tendency for the mother to hide the pregnancy of a war child for fear of revenge and reprisal by male family members.
The market adjustment that follows a landrush in any domain name extension ensures that the number of registered domains will fall as many speculative domain registrations that failed to be resold will not be renewed.
Some of the theoretical work in this field is quite speculative, and there are a number of areas of divergence between theoretical speculations and what has been obtained experimentally.
As a consequence, the Republic experienced a number of speculative bubbles in housing, land ( the lakes in North Holland were drained during this period ) and, notoriously, tulips.
Numbers are speculative but based on hard evidence in declassified files of the number of Polaris ET. 317 warheads and spares, a figure of between 48 and 60 is likely.
In its infancy, cosmology was a speculative science based on a very limited number of observations and characterized by a dispute between steady state theorists and promoters of Big Bang cosmology.
This development was helped by the growing number of openly gay or lesbian authors and their early acceptance by speculative fiction fandom.
Specialist gay publishing presses and a number of awards recognising LGBT achievements in the genre emerged, and by the twenty-first century blatant homophobia was no longer considered acceptable by most readers of speculative fiction.
A number of awards exist that recognise works at the intersection of LGBT and speculative fiction:
Open64 is also used in a number of research projects, such as the Unified Parallel C ( UPC ) and speculative multithreading work at various universities.

number and non-Greek
A number of non-Greek etymologies have been suggested for the name, The form Apaliunas (< sup > d </ sup >) is attested as a god of Wilusa in a treaty between Alaksandu of Wilusa and the Hittite great king Muwatalli II ca 1280 BCE.
Owens based this assertion on the perceived Indo-European but non-Greek roots of a small number of words he was able to read by using the known Linear B or Cypriot sound values of certain Linear A signs.
The company, a subsidiary of Carlsberg since 2008, also imports a number of non-Greek beers into the country.

number and etymologies
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.
Previously, there were a number of false etymologies, including a claim that the term derived from a New York brothel whose madam was known as Eve.
Roman historians recalled that twelve lictors had ceremoniously accompanied the Etruscan kings of Rome in the distant past, and sought to account for the number and to provide etymologies for the name lictor.
A number of etymologies have been proposed but none very well accepted.
There are a number of folk etymologies, many based on acronyms — Not Available For Fucking, Normal As Fuck — though these are backronyms.
A number of etymologies have been given for the name.
PIE * a is a fairly rare sound, and in an uncommonly large number of good etymologies it is word-initial.
The fourth edition, published in 2005, increases the number of citations, includes etymologies for many phrases and pays particular attention to Australian regionalisms.
There are number of etymologies for the word Ayyā, generally it is thought to be derived from Proto-Dravidian term denoting an elder brother.
Thus, if a Thracian or Dacian word contained such a phoneme, a Greek or Latin transcript would not represent it accurately. The etymologies that are adduced to back up the proposed Dacian and Thracian vowel and consonant changes, used for word reconstruction with the comparative method, are open to divergent interpretations because the material is related to placenames, with the exception of Dacian plant names and the limited number of glosses.
A number of improbable folk etymologies have been put forward to explain the phrase, for example:
Sabino Arana interpreted it as a solar symbol, supporting his theory of a Basque solar cult based on wrong etymologies, in the first number of Euzkadi.
John Hilton alludes to a number of etymologies proposed in the nineteenth century that claimed the name was derived from an Arabic or Persian word referring to the dark-skinned inhabitants of Africa, which he ludicrously dismisses as examples of the colonial mindset of that period.
A number of more subtle consequences include: numerous doublets – two or more cognate terms from both a Germanic and Latinate source ( or Latinate sources ), such as cow / beef ; numerous cases of etymological unrelated terms for closely related concepts, notably Germanic nouns with a Latin adjective, such as bird / avian or hand / manual ; complicated etymologies due to indirect borrowings ( via Romance ) or multiple borrowings ; and usage controversies over the perceived complexity of Latinate terms.
Later attempts to respell some words in accordance with their Latin etymologies further increased the number of silent letters ( e. g. temps vs. older tens – compare English " tense ", which reflects the original spelling – and vingt vs. older vint ).
He was so absorbed in his favorite study, that he saw Phoenician origins even in Celtic words, and hence the number of chimerical etymologies which swarm in his works.
There are a number of other theories about the origin of the symbol, some with a measure of academic acceptance, others the symbolic equivalent of false etymologies.
There are a number of possible etymologies for the word.

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