And to " measure " is to place a shorter measuring length s successively ( q times ) along longer length l until the remaining portion r is less than the shorter length s. In modern words, remainder r = l − q * s, q being the quotient, or remainder r is the " modulus ", the integer-fractional part left over after the division.

This has added excitement to several pennant races over the years, most recently in, and ; the first two times the division title was won by the Cubs, the third by the Cardinals, who went on to win the National League pennant as the Cubs faltered in the second half of the 2004 season.

The division between the United Kingdom during the government of Margaret Thatcher which resisted the call for sanctions and African Commonwealth countries was intense at times and led to speculation that the organization might collapse.

If implemented using remainders of Euclidean division rather than subtractions, Euclid's algorithm computes the GCD of large numbers efficiently: it never requires more division steps than five times the number of digits ( base 10 ) of the smaller integer.

Subtracting a small positive number from a big number enough times until what is left is less than the original smaller number can be replaced by finding the remainder in long division.

Some legions may have even been reinforced at times with units making the associated force near 15, 000 – 16, 000 or about the size of a modern division.

The administrative division of Silesia within Poland has changed several times since 1945.

It was the first of only two times that two teams have played each other in the Super Bowl after playing on the final weekend of the regular season ( the New York Giants and New England Patriots played in the final week of the 2007 regular season and met again in Super Bowl XLII ). Under NFL scheduling rules put in place by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell prior to the 2010 season, the Super Bowl participants will not be able to play each other on the final weekend of the regular season, since all games on the final weekend now match division opponents.

The division of the ecliptic into the zodiacal signs originates in Babylonian (" Chaldean ") astronomy during the first half of the 1st millennium BC, likely during Median /" Neo-Babylonian " times ( 7th century BC ),

Those of the eastern division, though dispersed about the steppes until late medieval times, were forced by the Mongols into the Caucasus, where they remain as the Ossetians.

A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat ( a place of comfort and safety ) and the outside ( a place that at times may be harsh and harmful ).

His sons, unusually for the times, respected the division made a decade earlier and each contented himself with his own kingdom.

In modern times, many diocese, though later subdivided, have preserved the boundaries of a long-vanished Roman administrative division.

Haeckel revised the content of this kingdom a number of times before settling on a division based on whether organisms were unicellular ( Protista ) or multicellular ( animals and plants ).

Cell division can occur during these times of water stress, and it is common for new cells to quickly absorb water after rainfall.

The division had fallen on hard times, due to the video game crash of 1983.

After making the postseason for seven consecutive years, from 1981 to 1987, the Nordiques became one of the worst teams in the league: from 1987 – 88 to 1991 – 92, the team finished last in their division every season and three times had the worst record of the league.

After the death of her husband, de la Cueva maneuvered her own election and succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, becoming the only woman to govern a major political division of the Americas in Spanish colonial times.

After the death of her husband, de la Cueva maneuvered her own election and succeeded him as governor of Guatemala, becoming the only woman to govern a major political division of the Americas in Spanish colonial times.

This somewhat arbitrary division may be accepted though it will not always apply, because, as is usual in the case of many painters, his styles at times overlap each other.

Benitez retained the championship three times, and then moved up to the welterweight division.

Rosario joined the short group of men who had become world champions 3 times in the same division.

The club has competed in the top division for a record 109 seasons and have won the League Championship nine times.

Citizens of the war-weary nation wanted stability, peace, and an end to conditions that at times bordered on chaos.

Annemarie Schneider, a 19-year-old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim ( a town in southern Germany ) was seemingly the unwitting cause of much chaos and controversy in the firm, including disruption of electricity and telephone lines, the rotation of a picture, swinging lamps which were captured on video ( which was one of the first times any poltergeist activity has been captured on film ), and strange sounds that sounded electrical in origin were recorded.

In combination with poor sanitation and hygiene which leads to a greater density of lice, this reactivation is why typhus forms epidemics in times of social chaos and upheaval.

From the polemical contemporary works which describe his career have emerged the outlines of a complex figure, charting a dangerous course through the chaos of the late 5th century Athenian political scene ; although historians from ancient times to the present have offered far more specific portraits, of one form or another, it may be that nothing more than that outline will ever be known with certainty.

Such art often occurs during times of social upheaval, such as the Protestant Reformation, German Peasants ' War, Eight Years ' War, and Spanish Occupation of the Netherlands, when the rape, pillage and disaster associated with periods of chaos and oppression are presented in the documents of the printmaker.

As he politically structured the Parisian resistance, Brossolette succeeded in convincing the network leaders to create a temporary Resistance Party under De Gaulle's leadership after the war, focused on promoting ambitious social transformations while avoiding the predictable enmity and chaos of post-Liberation times.

Many visions of these end times mirror creation mythologies, invoking triumph of God over the primordial forces of chaos, and clear distinctions between light and dark, good and evil.

In descriptive statistics and chaos theory, a recurrence plot ( RP ) is a plot showing, for a given moment in time, the times at which a phase space trajectory visits roughly the same area in the phase space.

He identifies three drivers of postnormal times: complexity, chaos and contradictions.

The play takes place in modern times and 1809, Goethe's time ; characters are replaced subtly, e. g. ' The Captain ' becomes ' The Naval Captain '; and the chemical affinity becomes updated in the play with discussion on the second law of thermodynamics, chaos theory, among other subjects ; albeit the play still holds to the idea that the characters of reactive entities, discussing ideas such as the " heat " of interactions between the characters.

In instructions to its members concerning how the OUN should behave during the war, it declared that " in times of chaos ... one can allow oneself to liquidate Polish, Russian and Jewish figures, particularly the servants of Bolshevik-Muscovite imperialism " and further, when speaking of Russians, Poles, and Jews, to " destroy, in the struggle, especially those who defend the regime: send them to their lands, destroy them-especially the intelligentsia ... assimilation of the Jews is ruled out.

) He enjoys manipulating circumstances to generate chaos and see what happens, often viewing everything as a game ( at times, he can be rather cold regarding the lives of those he manipulates as pawns in his games.

In 1970 Reksten signed the shipping contract of all times, when Libya cut down on oil production, while Nigeria was in chaos, and Syria closed the oil pipeline from the Middle East to the Mediterranean.

His father tried many times ( all of them failed ) to stop his son from creating chaos at every school he has been in.

However, they not only managed to preserve the fragile tropical plants in times of economic chaos, but also to build three new greenhouses, and repaired the tropical house.

In the ensuing crowd chaos, he is shot three times in the abdomen with a pistol, and later appears to die of his injuries.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

The Doctor informs the Master, having calculated that he " has saved every planet in the known universe a minimum of 27 times ", and having grown tired of battles with aliens and " the endless gravel quarries ", that he is retiring, having found a Companion-Emma-with whom he has fallen in love.

Dark and at times surreal, The Castle is about alienation, bureaucracy, the seemingly endless frustrations of man's attempts to stand against the system, and the futile and hopeless pursuit of an unobtainable goal.

Powered by the " X Element ", which at times he has bartered with Darkseid for, the chair enables him to transverse time and space in his endless pursuit of knowledge.

Sanjo has endless melodies in which musicians make new compositions that change with the times.