Informally, many older Lossos stated that the Nawdba came " from the East, toward Djougou ( in Bénin ).

Informally known as " The Big Book " ( with its first 164 pages virtually unchanged since the 1939 edition ), it suggests a twelve-step program in which members admit that they are powerless over alcohol and need help from a " higher power "; seek guidance and strength through prayer and meditation from God or Higher Power of their own understanding ; take a moral inventory with care to include resentments ; list and become ready to remove character defects ; list and make amends to those harmed, and then try to help other alcoholics recover.

Informally we can think of elements of the Lie algebra as elements of the group that are " infinitesimally close " to the identity, and the Lie bracket is something to do with the commutator of two such infinitesimal elements.

Informally the word is also used to describe a procedure or process with a specific purpose.

Informally, the " P vs. NP " question asks whether every optimization problem whose answers can be efficiently verified for correctness / optimality can be solved optimally with an efficient algorithm.

Informally, the term measure word is also sometimes used to refer to numeral classifiers, which are used with nouns that are countable in some languages.

In other words, L can be solved in polynomial time by an oracle machine with an oracle for H. Informally, we can think of an algorithm that can call such an oracle machine as a subroutine for solving H, and solves L in polynomial time, if the subroutine call takes only one step to compute.

Informally, the Fatou set of the function consists of values with the property that all nearby values behave similarly under repeated iteration of the function, and the Julia set consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values.

Informally, a set of natural numbers A is Turing reducible to a set B if there is an oracle machine that correctly tells whether numbers are in A when run with B as the oracle set ( in this case, the set A is also said to be ( relatively ) computable from B and recursive in B ).

Informally, the algorithm constructs a finite state machine that resembles a trie with additional links between the various internal nodes.

Informally, the term is often applied in a joking manner to describe any horse that acts up and bucks with or without a rider.

Informally, in the tradition of the Afro-Brazilian syncretic religion Umbanda, Sebastian is often associated with Oxossi, especially in the state of Rio de Janeiro itself.

Informally, free abelian groups or formal sums may also be seen as signed multisets with elements in B.

Informally, dogs may be studied by those with no specific scientific training, such as publicists and authors, breeders, trainers, police dog handlers, animal communicators and others, through literature, history, and personal experience.

Informally, such an object can be thought of as an assemblage of one or more chunks of rubber ( cells ), each shaped like a convex polytope, which are glued to each other by their facets — possibly with much stretching and twisting.

Informally, a language L is in MA if for all strings in the language, there is a polynomial sized proof that Merlin can send Arthur to convince him of this fact with high probability, and for all strings not in the language there is no proof that convinces Arthur with high probability.

Informally, this reads as follows: something exists with the property F, there is only one such thing, and this unique thing also has the property G.

In the mathematical fields of linear algebra and functional analysis, the orthogonal complement of a subspace W of a vector space V equipped with a bilinear form B is the set W < sup >⊥</ sup > of all vectors in V that are orthogonal to every vector in W. Informally, it is called the perp, short for perpendicular complement.

Informally, flak jacket may refer to a ballistic vest, particularly Type III and above, which is reinforced with either steel, titanium, ceramic, or polyethylene plates.

Informally, there are city areas with colloquial labels.

Informally, the non-commissioned officers with portepee are often called " the Feldwebel ranks " or even altogether Feldwebel, which creates a similar confusion as exists already with the word Unteroffizier.

Informally, if F is '= y ', G is ' is Pegasus ', and we substitute ' Pegasus ' for y, then ( 4 ) appears to allow us to infer from ' everything identical with Pegasus is Pegasus ' that something is identical with Pegasus.

Informally, it is the amount of wasted " space " used to transmit certain data.

Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution can be quickly verified by a computer can also be quickly solved by a computer.

Informally speaking, every matrix satisfies its own characteristic equation.

A pure or homogeneous simplicial k-complex is a simplicial complex where every simplex of dimension less than k is a face of some simplex of dimension exactly k. Informally, a pure 1-complex " looks " like it's made of a bunch of lines, a 2-complex " looks " like it's made of a bunch of triangles, etc.

Informally, a Lyapunov function is a function that takes positive values everywhere except at the equilibrium in question, and decreases ( or is non-increasing ) along every trajectory of the ODE.

Informally, two sets are close in the Hausdorff distance if every point of either set is close to some point of the other set.

In the mathematical field of graph theory, a spanning tree T of a connected, undirected graph G is a tree composed of all the vertices and some ( or perhaps all ) of the edges of G. Informally, a spanning tree of G is a selection of edges of G that form a tree spanning every vertex.

Informally, a loop invariant is a statement of the conditions that should be true on entry into a loop and that are guaranteed to remain true on every iteration of the loop.

Informally, the Council advises the Fijian government on every aspect of political life.

Informally, C can be regarded as the *- algebra of continuous complex-valued functions over the compact matrix quantum group, and u can be regarded as a finite-dimensional representation of the compact matrix quantum group.

Informally, it is a permutation of the group elements such that the structure remains unchanged.

Informally, G has the above presentation if it is the " freest group " generated by S subject only to the relations R. Formally, the group G is said to have the above presentation if it is isomorphic to the quotient of a free group on S by the normal subgroup generated by the relations R.

Informally, we can consider these products on the left hand side as being elements of the free group F =

Informally put, the axiom of choice says that given any collection of bins, each containing at least one object, it is possible to make a selection of exactly one object from each bin.

Informally, it is the similarity between observations as a function of the time separation between them.

Informally, this is true because polynomial time algorithms are closed under composition.

Informally, an object is reachable if it is referenced by at least one variable in the program, either directly or through references from other reachable objects.

Informally, a relational database table is often described as " normalized " if it is in the Third Normal Form.

Informally, a graph is a good expander if it has low degree and high expansion parameters.

Informally, Kajang is known as the " Satay Town ", and is famous among tourists and locals alike.

Informally, a measure has the property of being monotone function | monotone in the sense that if A is a subset of B, the measure of A is less than or equal to the measure of B.

Informally, word formation rules form " new words " ( that is, new lexemes ), while inflection rules yield variant forms of the " same " word ( lexeme ).

Informally speaking, the prime number theorem states that if a random integer is selected in the range of zero to some large integer N, the probability that the selected integer is prime is about 1 / ln ( N ), where ln ( N ) is the natural logarithm of N. For example, among the positive integers up to and including N = 10 < sup > 3 </ sup > about one in seven numbers is prime, whereas up to and including N = 10 < sup > 10 </ sup > about one in 23 numbers is prime ( where ln ( 10 < sup > 3 </ sup >)= 6. 90775528. and ln ( 10 < sup > 10 </ sup >)= 23. 0258509 ).

Informally, he may have been known as " Dickon ", according to a sixteenth-century legend of a note, warning of treachery, that was sent to the Duke of Norfolk on the eve of Bosworth: " Jack of Norffolke be not to bolde ,/ For Dyckon thy maister is bought and solde ".

Informally, a permutation of a set of objects is an arrangement of those objects into a particular order.

Informally, a set of strategies is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing his or her strategy.