If the target can change its position significantly during the 30 minutes the missile is in the air on its way, the probability of the missile destroying the target is drastically reduced.

If the resulting four kilobyte table size is too large for a given target platform, the table lookup operation can be performed with a single 256-entry 32-bit ( i. e. 1 kilobyte ) table by the use of circular rotates.

In response to a neighbor's complaint that his target shooting endangered her children, he replied, " If that should ever happen, ma-da-me, we should ourselves be happy to get new ones with you " ( though he was not at all inclined to engage with females in the manner implied ).

If a player is about to drive and wants to know if there are players in the target area, they may shout " clear on hole 12?

If the parameter is the bull's-eye of a target, and the arrows are estimates, then a relatively high variance means the arrows are dispersed, and a relatively low variance means the arrows are clustered.

If the parameter is the bull's-eye of a target, and the arrows are estimates, then a relatively high absolute value for the bias means the average position of the arrows is off-target, and a relatively low absolute bias means the average position of the arrows is on target.

If f is an element of G ( x, y ) then x is called the source of f, written s ( f ), and y the target of f ( written t ( f )).

If all contracts awarded reach their stated target plateau production then this will increase Iraqi production from today's 2. 5 mb / d by 9. 4 mb / d to a total of 11. 9 mb / d, comparable to current Saudi declared capacity of 12. 5 mb / d.

If there is a crystallographic structure to the target, and especially in semiconductor substrates where the crystal structure is more open, particular crystallographic directions offer much lower stopping than other directions.

If the wavelength is much longer than the size of the target, the target may not be visible because of poor reflection.

If a non-probability survey conducted in the United States finds that 59 % percent of its respondents support a piece of legislation that is the only conclusion that can be drawn, no statement about the target population can be made.

If the target is thin on an atomic scale the collision cascade can reach the back side of the target and atoms can escape the surface binding energy ` in transmission '.

If the energy transfer is more efficient to one of the target components, and / or it is less strongly bound to the solid, it will sputter more efficiently than the other.

If the piece behind the target piece is also of the same color, it is also " zooped.

If the fuse was set correctly then the shell would break open, either in front or above the intended target, releasing its contents ( of musket balls ).

If jamming is used continually, it can be extremely difficult for a missile to acquire the target, locking on to the much larger return from the jammer, with the operator unlikely noticing the difference without a radar screen to see the return.

If successful, the fast ignition approach could dramatically lower the total amount of energy needed to be delivered to the target ; whereas NIF uses UV beams of 2 MJ, HiPER's driver is 200 kJ and heater 70 kJ, yet the predicted fusion gains are nevertheless even higher than on NIF.

If the target is not an HTML file, depending on the file type and on the browser and its plugins, another program may be activated to open the file.

If the source document is subsequently modified, then those text units that have not changed can be directly transferred to the new target version of the document without the need for any translator interaction.

If the armor is defeated, the heat and spalling ( particle spray ) generated by the penetrator going through the armor, and the pressure wave that would develop, would destroy the target.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If it comes down too hard on the potential dangers of fallout, it will box the President on resuming atmospheric tests.

`` If it gave me pleasure to say hard things '', he wrote, `` I would shut up forever ''.

If there is a moral lurking among the shenanigans, it is hard to find.

If she and Pete were really getting serious, I'd have to do some hard thinking.

If freedmen had total control of money, letters, and law, it seemed it would not be hard for them to manipulate the Emperor.

If we work hard to sell our own cars, we won ’ t be bothered by whatever the other manufacturers do.

" If we cannot move on to point B until we have proved point A, and if in order to prove point A we must establish it with absolute certainty, then it looks as though we will have a very hard time proving any point at all.

If you be not too much cloyed with fat meat, our humble author will continue the story, with Sir John in it, and make you merry with fair Katharine of France where, for any thing I know, Falstaff shall die of a sweat, unless already a ' be killed with your hard opinions ; for Oldcastle died a martyr, and this is not the man.

If you want to play on his team you'd better like hard work, too.

If you take a piece of paper in your hands, holding it on both ends, you can pull very hard and not tear the paper.

If plasma is pushed hard enough, it generates electric fields which allow it to move in response to the push, often ( not always ) deforming the magnetic field in the process.

If the lob is not hit deeply enough into the other court, however, an opponent near the net may then hit an overhead smash, a hard, serve-like shot, to try to end the point.

If I tried too hard to tell them exactly how something happened, in the hope of correcting some fantasy, I was quite likely to be accused of trying to suppress Free Speech.

If two devices overwrote the same memory location in a conflict, and the hard disk controller relied on this location ( the HDD controller often being the 2nd conflicting device ) there was the all-too-common possibility of massive data corruption.

" Sports Illustrated considered the activity a sport in 1987, describing the Drum Corps International World Championships “ one of the biggest sporting events of the summer .” In the same article, Sports Illustrated quoted basketball coach Bobby Knight, " If a basketball team trained as hard as these kids do, it would be unbelievable.

If, however, an attack were thwarted by escorts, even if the submarine had escaped damage, it would have to remain submerged for its own safety and might only recover its position after many hours ' hard work.

If done correctly it is very hard for audiences to tell what sounds were added and what sounds were originally recorded ( location sound ).

If it is a hard chase, it sometimes needs to rest for half an hour or more.

If the latter is too hard, the roots will not penetrate it readily and, as a result, the plant will be pushed up and out of the earth during the process of growth.

" Indeed, the song " Do You Believe In Magic ," a Top Ten hit, mentioned the genre in its lyrics: " If you believe in magic, don't bother to choose / If it's jug band music or rhythm and blues / Just go and listen, it'll start with a smile / That won't wipe off your face no matter how hard you try.

If Mark was editing Matthew and Luke, it is hard to see why he would add so little material, if he was going to add anything at all.

If the dishwasher has run out of the salt that recharges the ion exchange resin that softens the water, and the water supply is " hard ", limescale deposits can appear on all items, but are especially visible on glassware.

The Kinks ' early recordings of 1964 ranged from covers of R & B standards like " Long Tall Sally " and " Got Love If You Want It "; to the chiming, melodic beat music of Ray Davies ' earliest original compositions for the band, " You Still Want Me " and " Something Better Beginning "; to the more influential proto-metal, protopunk, power chord-based hard rock of the band's first two hit singles, " You Really Got Me " and " All Day and All of the Night ".