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Conquest's and before
In some senses the anthology can be seen as a reaction to Robert Conquest's New Lines anthology, which appeared a decade before.

Conquest's and from
Rummel has responded that the 20 million estimate is based on a figure from Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror, and that Conquest's qualifier " almost certainly too low " is usually forgotten.
Furthermore, Conquest's comment about the poet John Cornford, who had been killed in the Spanish Civil War and was a hero of the British intellectual Left, that " not even high intelligence and a sensitive spirit are of any help once the facts of a situation are deduced from a political theory, rather than vice versa ," was widely quoted, and sparked its own controversy.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the research that resulted from the opening up of the Soviet archives, many of Conquest's claims have been contested.

Conquest's and their
The second factor ( 1918 ) was Conquest's sharp criticism of Western intellectuals for what he saw as their blindness towards the realities of the Soviet Union, both in the 1930s and, in some cases, even in the 1960s.

Conquest's and Soviet
* Robert Conquest's Harvest of Sorrow, Soviet Collectivization and the Terror Famine.

Conquest's and during
Conquest's title was in turn inspired by the period of terror ( French: la Terreur ) during the French Revolution.

Conquest's and .
In the Western world, Robert Conquest's 1968 book The Great Terror popularized that phrase.
The Movement poets as a group came to public notice in Robert Conquest's 1955 anthology New Lines.
Conquest's thesis of an SS conspiracy to frame Tukhachevsky was based upon the memoirs of Walter Schellenberg and Edvard Beneš.
Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow later quoted him directly.
The most important aspect of Robert Conquest's The Great Terror was that it widened the understanding of the purges beyond the previous narrow focus on the " Moscow Trials " of disgraced Communist Party leaders such as Nikolai Bukharin and Grigory Zinoviev.
Hostility to Conquest's account of the purges was heightened by various factors.
At issue are Conquest's estimates of the death toll, which are now contested by some historians as being much too high.

calculations and excluded
Clarence had long been excluded from Warwick's calculations.
If sugar is excluded from import calculations, the tariff revenue increased by 7. 8 percent from $ 170 million to $ 183 million.
In some legislations they have been excluded from maximum floor area calculations, leading to significant increases in building sizes ; this is the case in New York City.
While vocational subjects are excluded from OP calculations, all authority subjects ( specified by the Queensland Studies Authority ) are weighed equally.
On 16 February, following meetings between the electoral council and the interim government, it was agreed that blank ballots would be excluded from the percentage calculations, resulting in a total vote for Preval of 51. 1 %.

calculations and camp
When Amundsen's calculations were verified, it was found that his final camp lay within 2, 500 yards of the mathematical South Pole, a remarkable achievement given the instruments available.
The Beacon Hill camp, ( scheduled ancient monument number 7 ) built around 1000 BCE, was probably inhabited by around 2 3000 people according to calculations from similar camps.

calculations and deaths
For example, some include battle deaths in their calculations.
The German pastor Johannes Lepsius meticulously collected data on the destruction and, in his calculations, counted the deaths of 88, 243 Armenians, the destitution of 546, 000, the destruction of 2, 493 villages, the residents of 456 of which were forcibly converted to Islam, and the desecration of 649 churches and monasteries, of which 328 were converted into mosques.
These calculations are obtained by using the mortality in the wealthiest quintile of urban neighbourhoods as a baseline and considering all deaths above that level to be “ excess ” related to income differences.

calculations and before
For calculations of OBP before 1954, or where sacrifice flies are not explicitly listed, the number of sacrifice flies should be assumed to be zero.
Since computers can make arithmetic calculations much faster and more accurately than humans, it was thought to be only a short matter of time before the technical details could be taken care of that would allow them the same remarkable capacity to process language.
The first known tool used to aid arithmetic calculations was the Abacus, devised by Sumerians and Egyptians before 2000 BC.
* 1735 Mathematical calculations suggest that it is on this day that dwarf planet Pluto moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979.
Suspicious constructs include: variables being used before being set, conditions that are constant, and calculations whose result is likely to be outside the range of values representable in the type used.
Babylonian astronomers before Kidinnu's time apparently already knew the Saros cycle ( old eclipse observations were collected in tables organised according to the Saros cycle since the late 5th century BC ) and the Metonic cycle ( the dates of the lunar calendar in the Saros tables follow a regular 19-year pattern of embolismic months at least since 498 BC ); both cycles are also used in System B. Schnabel computed specific years ( first 314 BC and later 379 BC ) for the origin of the System B lunar theory, but Franz Xaver Kugler and Otto E. Neugebauer later disproved Schnabel's calculations.
The probability for producing antihydrogen from one antiproton was only about, so this method is not well suited for the production of substantial amounts of antihydrogen, as detailed calculations had shown before.
The customer, for example, might be asked to pay regularly the new bill, before contesting the previous one in which he found irregular calculations, and asking for a balancement with newer bills ; he thus cannot by himself determine a discount in the next payment.
The difference between the two calculations is that when the Legendre symbol is used the " numerator " has to be factored into prime powers before the symbol is flipped.
Under this heading, the Board made many lesser awards, including some awards in total £ 5, 000 made to John Harrison before he received his main prize, an award of £ 3, 000 to the widow of Tobias Mayer, whose lunar tables were the basis of the lunar data in the early decades of the Nautical Almanac, £ 300 to Leonhard Euler for his ( assumed ) contribution to the work of Mayer, £ 50 each to Richard Dunthorne and Israel Lyons for contributing methods to shorten the calculations connected with lunar distances, and awards made to the designers of improvements in chronometers.
Newton famously considered the speed of sound before most of the development of thermodynamics and so incorrectly used isothermal calculations instead of adiabatic.
These compilers perform calculations very similar to computers, nearly violating the prohibitions against " thinking machines " that were imposed following the Butlerian Jihad several millennia before.
" However, they also wrote him out of their long-term calculations and hoped he would strike a major blow before he and his ships met their fate.
Nomograms flourished in many different contexts for roughly 75 years because they allowed quick and accurate computations before the age of pocket calculators, making such calculations available to people who did not normally use slide rules, and who didn ’ t know algebra or were not competent at substituting numbers into equations to obtain results.
He stated that "... instead of finding myself face to face with a political chief who was directing the struggle for the liberation of the working class, I found myself before a man who desired nothing more than to satisfy his needs and desires of vengeance and of hate and who did not utilize the workers ' struggle for anything more than a means of hiding his own paltriness and despicable calculations ....
The Drug Free Australia calculations compared the registration data for overdose histories published in the MSIC ’ s 2003 evaluation document, which allowed comparison rates of overdose from a period before a heroin drought reduced overdoses Australia-wide, with rates of overdose drawn from data in the 2010 evaluation.
Glenzer said that experiments with slightly larger hohlraums containing fusion-ready fuel pellets would begin before May 2010, slowly ramping up to 1. 2 megajoules — enough for ignition according to calculations.
The same principle applies to the reciprocal measurements — they should agree to a sufficient degree before they are used in any calculations.
The estimation of the year of Paul's conversion relies on a series of calculations working backwards from the well established date of his trial before Gallio ( mentioned in the Delphi Inscription ) in Achaea Greece ( Acts 18: 12-17 ) AD 51-52, the meeting of Priscilla and Aquila which were expelled from Rome about AD 49 and the 14-year period before returning to Jerusalem in Galatians 2: 1.
Newcomb studied mathematics and physics privately and supported himself by teaching before becoming a human computer ( a functionary in charge of calculations ) at the Nautical Almanac Office in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1857.
Modern development cycles include a prototyping phase which examines the potential precision loss and overflow of designs using fixed point calculations before proceeding to physical prototyping.
In some languages such as REXX the precision of all calculations must be set before doing a calculation.
In Scientific mode order of operations is followed while doing calculations ( muiltiplication and division are done before addition and subtraction ), which means 6 * 4 + 12 / 4-4 * 5

0.738 seconds.