Confusingly, the convention of negative for East is also sometimes seen.

( Confusingly, the Pochhammer symbol that many use for falling factorials is used in special functions for rising factorials.

This crescent shape is reminiscent of the sickle described in the Key of Solomon, a medieval grimoire which is one of the sources for modern Wicca .. Confusingly, an Italian version of the Key of Solomon has a hook-shaped knife called an artauo ( a possible root for athame ) and a straight, needle-shaped blade called a bolino.

Confusingly, the 860 number has since been re-used for a motherboard control chipset for Intel Xeon ( high-end Pentium ) systems.

Confusingly, this means that it is possible to be both a " freshman Senator " and a " senior Senator " simultaneously: for example, if a Senator wins election in 2008, and then the other Senator from the same state steps down and a new Senator elected in 2010, the former Senator is both senior Senator ( as in the Senate for two years more ) and a freshman Senator ( since still in the first term ).

Confusingly, the JCR ( Junior Combination Room ) is also the name for the entire student body ' en masse ' ( including the graduates ) and the name of the student common room as well.

Confusingly, some Chinese emperors styled many or all close male relatives of certain kinds such as brothers, uncles, or nephews as wang, a term for king, using it as a courtesy title.

Confusingly, sometimes the term is used for assembly language compatibility, where the source is already human-readable machine code but must be converted to executable code by an assembler.

) Confusingly, there were contradictory announcements about the cast list for the show, with one " finalised line-up " announced on Amnesty's webpage for the event and a different " finalised cast list " announced on the webpage of the event's broadcaster Channel Four indicating a lack of coordination between the two wings of the production.

Confusingly, the Secretary of State responsible for this Department was titled the Secretary of State for Social Services.

Confusingly, Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia Regum Britanniae ( 1136 ), uses the name Samuil Penessil for a legendary pre-Roman king of Britain, preceded by Redechius and succeeded by Pir.

Confusingly in the context of Crawley's later history, this area was called " New Town ", a name which persisted for many years ; it had no connection with the later establishment of the New Town of Crawley under the New Towns Act 1946, the name being merely a coincidence.

Confusingly, Citrix has also used the Xen brand itself for some proprietary products unrelated to Xen, including at least " XenApp " and " XenDesktop ".

Confusingly, some English-speaking archaeologists, such as Aubrey Burl, use this second meaning for cromlech in English too.

Confusingly, the term convective derivative is both used for the whole material derivative Dφ / Dt or Du / Dt, and for only the spatial rate of change part, v •∇ φ or v •∇ u respectively.

Confusingly, the special NKVD rank system was left intact, so for example Captain of Militsiya / State Security was assigned the three-box insignia of an army Colonel ( in the Red Army, this patch was reassigned to Lieutenant Colonel in September 1939, but the NKVD did not alter their insignia ) and Major of Militsiya / State Security was mapped to one-romb insignia of Kombrig ( a brigade commander ) ( which was abolished for commanding officers of the Red Army in May 1940 ).

Confusingly, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography was once called the Scripps Institution for Biological Research.

Confusingly, the related pacas were placed by some authorities in a genus called Agouti, though Cuniculus has priority and is the correct term ( Woods and Kilpatrick, 2005 ).

Confusingly, another American company also offered a car called the Allen, also in 1913, though the Ohio model was somewhat more successful.

Confusingly though, parts of the UK government refer to these as ' Light Goods Vehicles ' ( also abbreviated ' LGV '), with the term ' LGV ' appearing on tax disks for these smaller vehicles.

Confusingly, the terms " vervet monkey " and " green monkey " are sometimes used to refer to the whole genus Chlorocebus, even though they also refer more precisely to species Chlorocebus pygerythrus and Chlorocebus sabaeus, respectively, neither of which is the type species for Chlorocebus.

Confusingly, the term is sometimes referred to as ' Vice Prime Minister ', though a separate and different Vice Prime Minister role already exists.

Confusingly, however, some editions enclose bar numbers in boxes, though they're usually not boldface.

Confusingly, such XP systems quote " HPET " connectivity in the device driver manager even though the Intel HPET device is not being used.

Below its junction with the Ilim River the Angara has been known in the past as the Upper Tunguska () Confusingly, some maps ( e. g., 1773 atlas by Kitchen-see illustration ) referred to this same section of the Angara as Nizhnyaya Tunguska, i. e. the Lower Tunguska-the name that's currently applied to another river.

Confusingly, the word Garrafeira may also be found on some very old tawny labels, where the contents of the bottle are of exceptional age.

Confusingly, the same name is used also of a closely related but distinct ethnic group living mostly in East Karelia, earlier also in some of the territories Finland ceded to the Soviet Union in 1944.

Confusingly, some species are given the name " mimosa " which correctly belongs to species in the related genus Mimosa.

( Confusingly, Irving was also influential in the life of another Scottish Thomas Carlyle, born a few years later, whom he eventually gave a position of some responsibility within his new church.

Confusingly, however, some distorted images may be visible on a properly-connected VIVO-driven television display at boot-up.

Confusingly, some TV listings display the logo of an unrelated cable channel, also called the Travel Channel ( UK ) and airing in the United Kingdom and Ireland, as that of the American channel as well.

Confusingly, some releases of this film were also entitled Supercop or Supercop 2.

Confusingly, some older telescopic sights, mainly of German or other European manufacture, have a different classification where the second part of the designation refers to ' light gathering power.

Confusingly, some early maps of Sydney Harbour show the current Goat Island with the name Cockatoo Island, whilst the current Cockatoo Island is named Banks Island.

Confusingly, some authors use the term " symmetric graph " to mean a graph which is vertex-transitive and edge-transitive, rather than an arc-transitive graph.

Confusingly, the word hostel will sometimes mistakenly be spelled hostal in some Latin American countries when hostel is what is meant.

Confusingly, some of these " Ultra " workstations are not UltraSPARC-based systems, but are based on x86-64-architecture processors ( where Sun uses the term " x64 ").

Confusingly, for a short time some equipment manufacturers also referred to 3¾ ips tape speed as long play, but this usage did not persist.

Confusingly these proteins are also known under different nomenclatures but they are probably best known as the glycophorins.

Confusingly, the terms " assault " and " common assault " often encompass the separate offence of battery, even in statutory settings such as s 40 ( 3 )( a ) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988.

Confusingly, such diagrams usually label this radial dimension " saturation ", blurring or erasing the distinction between saturation and chroma.

Confusingly, many of these new types adopted the names of the smaller warships from the age of sail, such as corvette, sloop and frigate.

Confusingly, the common name " cockle " is also given ( by seafood sellers ) to a number of other small, edible bivalves which have a somewhat similar shape, but these bivalves are in other families such as the Veneridae ( Venus clams ) and the Arcidae ( ark clams ).