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If and one
If you take the one, you'd better take both ''.
`` If you can conveniently let me have twenty dollars '', he wrote one friend in 1791 when he was Secretary of the Treasury.
If one dancer slaps another, the victim may do a pirouette, sit down, or offer his assailant a fork and spoon.
If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.
If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.
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.
If within one year you can make a success out of the American, you can practically name your own salary thereafter.
If it is not one of his best books, it can only be considered unsatisfactory when compared with his own Garibaldi.
If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.
If any one of them has any power to veto the Secretary General's decisions the nature of the organization will have changed.
If he can bounce back with one of those 25 home runs years, the club will have to be better off offensively.
If they do meet and recognize one another, slap backs and embrace, the moment soon is done.
If either one ever started making promises, there is no telling where the promises would end.
If one follows the reports of the Congress, one finds that there still seems considerable uncertainty in the minds of the leaders themselves about what exactly to do in this matter.
Somebody, got to be somebody If I don't put my two cents in soon, somebody else will I know they're waitin only for one thing: for the bastards what done it to be nailed.
If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.
`` If I catch you one more time down here without stockings '' --
If, for some reason such as economy, we are not going to develop aircraft nuclear propulsion with a sense of national urgency, then we should turn our effort to developing jet engines with a thrust-to-weight ratio of 12 or 15 to one.
If you don't own a planer and don't want to buy one, it's well worth renting.
Note: If 1/2-inch panel board is used inside and out, or 5/8-inch one side and 3/8-inch the other, and 1/8-inch glass is used, stock lumber in Af, Af, and Af can be used in making the glass panels.
If you have a full-time doctor now, can he be replaced with a part-time doctor or one who serves on a fee-per-case basis only??
If you use one of the new year-round cooling system fluids such as `` Dowguard '' be sure to check it.
If you run into excess plug fouling on one truck, check to be sure that the rig has a thermostat.

If and flips
If r is negative, then the vector changes direction: it flips around by an angle of 180 °.
If V is a probabilisitic Turing Machine which could possible accept x if x is in X, then the proof is the string of coin flips which leads the machine, by luck, intuition, or genius, to accepting x.
If there are no other limitations on the number of flips, the probability that the game will eventually end this way is 100 %.
If the coin is noticeably biased, say coming up on one side 60 % of the time ( p =. 6 ), then we can guess that side with 95 % () accuracy after 150 flips.
If it is 90 % biased, then a mere 10 flips suffices.
If the coin is only biased a tiny amount, like most real coins are, the number of necessary flips becomes much larger.
If our interest is in the marginal probability of obtaining a head, we only need to record the number T out of the 100 flips that produced a head, and use T < sub > 0 </ sub > = 50 as our null value.

If and coin
Jarry once wrote, expressing some of the bizarre logic of ' pataphysics, " If you let a coin fall and it falls, the next time it is just by an infinite coincidence that it will fall again the same way ; hundreds of other coins on other hands will follow this pattern in an infinitely unimaginable fashion ".
If the coin is judged favorably in all of these criteria, it will generally be awarded a higher grade.
If the teams remain tied, overtime periods continue, with a coin flip determining the first possession.
If a coin is greatly lacking in all of these, it is unlikely to be worth much.
If the coin is fair, then the probability of the next flip being heads is 1 / 2.
If an individual coin toss or the roll of dice is considered to be a random event, then if repeated many times the sequence of random events will exhibit certain patterns, which can be studied and predicted.
One may ask " If I were to flip a fair coin 100 times, what is the probability of it landing heads-up every time?
If we are tossing a coin, then the negative binomial distribution can give the number of heads (“ success ”) we are likely to encounter before we encounter a certain number of tails (“ failure ”).
If we know not just, but the earlier values as well, then we can determine which coins have been drawn, and we know that the next coin will not be a nickel, so we can determine that with probability 1.
If the head-side is up, the game would be called Mei-Chu ; otherwise, the game would be called Chu-Mei .” As the head-side of the coin went up, the tournament was thereby named Meichu to commemorate the two founding presidents of NTHU and NCTU, Dr. Mei Yi-Chi, and Dr. Ling Chu-Ming.
Let the coin tosses be represented by a sequence of independent random variables, each of which is equal to H with probability p, and T with probability Let N be time of appearance of the first H ; in other words,, and If the coin never shows H, we write N is itself a random variable because it depends on the random outcomes of the coin tosses.
If the black box works then the coin does not drop.
If the momentum imparted to the coin as it is launched were known with sufficient accuracy,
" If someone comes to my grave, gives a coin to charity, and says these ten Psalms Tikkun HaKlali, I will pull him out from the depths of Gehinnom!
If the employer had deduced from the interviews so far that both candidates would complete the task in somewhere between 195 and 205 hours, it would be in the employer's best interests to choose one or the other by some easily-applied metric ( for example, flipping a coin ) rather than spend the $ 100 on determining the better candidate, saving at most $ 100 in labor.
If part of the die chips out, showing as a raised, unstruck area on the coin, it is called a chip.
If he found people drinking from a fountain, he gave them a half-crown coin.
If not provided for on the obverse, the reverse side usually contains information relating to a coin's role as medium of exchange ( such as the value of the coin ).
# If Alice's revelation matches the coin result Bob reported, Alice wins
:( 1 ) If the coin had been flipped, it would have landed heads.

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