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solution and riddle
Laius, meanwhile, ventures out to find a solution to the Sphinx's riddle.
Norman Del Mar speculates that “ there would be considerable loss if the solution were to be found, much of the work ’ s attraction lying in the impenetrability of the riddle itself ”, that interest in the work would not be as strong had the Enigma been solved during Elgar's lifetime.
Some of these riddles have been explained to have more than one possible " solution ", although nowadays most printed editions of the score give a single, more or less " standard " solution of the riddle, so that interpreters can just play, without having to worry about the Latin, or the riddle.
Laius, meanwhile, ventures out to find a solution to the Sphinx's riddle.
: The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question, studying one bit at a time, and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle.
An enigma is a type of riddle generally expressed in radical or allegorical language that requires ingenuity and careful thought for its solution.
Politicians and journalists, Rabbis and political activists, not a single one of them withstood the temptation to play the role of the historian and invent a solution for this riddle.
The controversial author Gavin Menzies proposed a solution to the riddle of Antillia in his bestseller 1421: The Year China Discovered America.
The traditional English solution to this riddle has been that their fleet tacked synchronously, i. e. each individual ship turned simultaneously to reverse fleet order, instead of turning one behind the other.
This seemed the final solution to the riddle of the writer's biography – B. Traven turned out, as he always claimed himself, to be an American, not the German Ret Marut.
The second series featured a 12-part riddle which Catweazle, once more transported to 1970s England, attempts to solve one clue per episode, with the solution ( as he thinks ) being revealed in the 13th.
* Another Batman villain, The Riddler, leaves behind a riddle or other puzzle, whose solution is a clue to his overall plot.
While living with Williams, Robertson had learned the approximate physical location of the hare, while remaining ignorant of the proper solution to the book ’ s master riddle.
If the dignity of man is to be enhanced, we need to find a solution to this eternal riddle of man killing man in the name of an opinion.
What is the solution to this astounding riddle?
* The Oedipodea, attributed to Cinaethon: told the story of Oedipus ' solution to the Sphinx's riddle, and presumably of his incestuous marriage to his mother Epicaste or Jocasta.

solution and was
He was then asked for a solution of the difficulty, and began to talk trenchant sense, though private anguish showed through in the vehemence of his manner.
There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.
The solution reached in the agreement was more acceptable to the railroad than that originally included in a series of union demands.
Lublin was the seed of action for the `` final solution '' of the Jewish problem.
When he showed this model as his `` solution '' as to how the Howe sewing machine operated, he was told he was `` wrong '', and discovered to his amazement that the Howe Machine, which was unknown to him in detail, used two threads while the one that he had perfected used only one.
To prepare the latter, silver chloride was precipitated from a solution containing Af obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
This chlorine-carbon tetrachloride solution was illuminated for a day following which the flask was resealed onto a vacuum system and the excess chlorine distilled off.
It was possible to make estimates of the quantum yield by observing the extent of reduction of a uranyl oxalate actinometer solution illuminated for a known time in a typical reaction cell and making appropriate conversions based on the differences in the absorption spectra of uranyl oxalate and of chlorine, and considering the spectral distribution of the light source.
The precipitate was washed twice with an 80% saturated solution of Af, dissolved in a small quantity of 0.1 M neutral phosphate buffer, dialyzed against cold distilled water till free from ammonium ions, and lyophilized using liquid nitrogen.
Roleplaying was offered as a solution -- and the procedure worked as follows: all candidates were invited to a hotel conference room, where the president explained the difficulty he had, and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work out.
Drain off the soap solution of the suds cycle at such a time that the wheel has become substantially empty of soap and water at the end of the time shown in Column A of Table 2,, measured from the time the wash wheel was started.
Another poultice was made from the inner bark of the elm tree, steeped in water until it formed a sticky, gummy solution.
Another common cure was to soak the feet five or ten minutes in warm water, then to apply a solution of equal parts of soda and common brown soap on a kid bandage overnight.
When the solution finally came to him, one night while he was in bed, he was so shaken by its simplicity that he could only wonder why it had not occurred to him before.
The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.
In law, an answer was originally a solemn assertion in opposition to someone or something, and thus generally any counter-statement or defense, a reply to a question or response, or objection, or a correct solution of a problem.
Swift was especially insulted by projects that tried to fix population and labor issues with a simple cure-all solution.
The omission of vowels was not a satisfactory solution and some " weak " consonants were used to indicate the vowel quality of a syllable ( matres lectionis ).
The " international ampere " was an early realization of the ampere, defined as the current that would deposit grams of silver per second from a silver nitrate solution.
First plutonium-239 nitrate (< sup > 239 </ sup > PuNO < sub > 3 </ sub >) solution was coated on a platinum foil of about 0. 5 cm < sup > 2 </ sup > area, the solution was evaporated and the residue was converted into plutonium dioxide ( PuO < sub > 2 </ sub >) by annealing.

solution and proposed
In a more detailed 2003 Fortune article, Buffett proposed a tool called Import Certificates as a solution to the United States ' problem and ensure balanced trade.
Serbia and Greece proposed that each of the three countries reduce its army by one fourth, as a first step to facilitate a peaceful solution, but Bulgaria rejected it.
That solution is still alive and proposed by Fastap and Unitap among others, and a commercial phone has been produced and promoted in Canada during 2006.
Eddington's proposed solution to the perceived problem was to modify relativistic mechanics so as to make the law P = K < sub > 1 </ sub > ρ < sup > 5 / 3 </ sup > universally applicable, even for large ρ.
Its simple and radical solution of the Investiture Controversy between the prerogatives of regnum and sacredoium proposed that German churchmen would surrender their lands and secular offices to the emperor and constitute a purely spiritual church.
A pattern must explain why a particular situation causes problems, and why the proposed solution is considered a good one.
The philosophic solution that Lenin ( and Engels ) proposed was " dialectical materialism ", wherein matter is defined as " objective reality ", theoretically consistent with ( new ) developments occurred in the sciences.
Perennialism was a solution proposed in response to what was considered by many to be a failing educational system.
Some radical feminists have proposed that because patriarchy is too deeply rooted in society, separatism is the only viable solution.
The modeled highway construction emphasized hope for the future as it served as a proposed solution to traffic congestion of the day, and demonstrated the probable development of traffic in proportion to the automotive growth of the next twenty years.
For example, the indistinguishability of particles has been proposed as a solution to Gibbs ' mixing paradox.
Although a crank seemed the obvious solution to the conversion Watt and Boulton were stymied by a patent for this, whose holder, James Pickard, and associates proposed to cross-license the external condenser.
The solution was a bill proposed in January 1854 by Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois.
Since at least the time of Augustine, theologians, considering baptism to be necessary for the salvation of those to whom it can be administered, have debated the fate of unbaptized innocents, and the theory of the Limbo of Infants is one of the hypotheses that have been formulated as a proposed solution.
The Gauss algorithm for matrix inversion is probably the oldest solution but this approach does not efficiently use the symmetry of R and r. A faster algorithm is the Levinson recursion proposed by Norman Levinson in 1947, which recursively calculates the solution.
As a solution to this problem, Diaz proposed a graphical methodology based on random samples that allow visually discerning between different types of tail behavior.
Beeckman had proposed a difficult mathematical problem, and to his astonishment, it was the young Descartes who found the solution.
His proposed solution was:
Several approaches have been proposed for the solution of this problem but development is currently still very much in progress.
One solution to these paradoxes is the Charlier universe, in which the matter is arranged hierarchically ( systems of orbiting bodies that are themselves orbiting in a larger system, ad infinitum ) in a fractal way such that the universe has a negligibly small overall density ; such a cosmological model had also been proposed earlier in 1761 by Johann Heinrich Lambert.
In other words, any proposed solution to the situation ( independence, integration etc.
Another proposed solution is to question one of the assumptions Zeno used in his paradoxes ( particularly the Dichotomy ), which is that between any two different points in space ( or time ), there is always another point.
After considering the problem, two students at Caltech ( where Thorne taught ), Fernando Echeverria and Gunnar Klinkhammer, were able to find a solution beginning with the original billiard ball trajectory proposed by Polchinski which managed to avoid any inconsistencies.
The Alcubierre drive ( or Alcubierre metric see: Metric tensor ) is a speculative idea based on a valid solution of the Einstein field equations as proposed by Miguel Alcubierre by which a spacecraft may achieve faster-than-light ( FTL ) travel, making travel to other stars more feasible.

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