The first function is assumed, if the expression in the argument contains more characters or, than characters, and the second function is assumed in the opposite case.

The triangle in the glass tube contains the first sample of americium ( as the hydroxide ), produced in 1944.

The first half is based mainly on the Soliloquies of St Augustine of Hippo, the remainder is drawn from various sources, and contains much that is Alfred's own and highly characteristic of him.

The front porch is the first component of the horizontal blanking interval which also contains the horizontal sync pulse

:" The first part of our arithmetic organ ... should be a parallel storage organ which can receive a number and add it to the one already in it, which is also able to clear its contents and which can store what it contains.

According to the Chronicles-Ezra-Nehemiah theory, it contains material set aside from the rest of the book of Ezra, which was canonized first.

The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

Isaiah 44: 6 contains the first clear statement of monotheism: " I am the first and I am the last ; besides me there is no god ".

The first chapter contains the first address ( 2-11 ) and its effects ( 12-15 ).

The Commentary contains a copy of the first two chapters of Habakkuk, but not of the third chapter.

The first piece to show clear signs of this new interest is the String Quartet No. 1 in A minor ( 1908 ), which contains folk-like elements.

The first edition of 1995 contained about 10, 000 words, and the second edition of 2001 contains 20, 000 words.

The first column contains the names of those accounts in the ledger which have a non-zero balance.

The first is the traditional Berkeley DB, written in C. It contains several database implementations, including a B-Tree and one built around extendible hashing.

It is common to display the Gregorian calendar in separate monthly grids of seven columns ( from Monday to Sunday, or Sunday to Saturday depending on which day is considered to start the week-this varies according to country ) and five to six rows ( or rarely, four rows when the month of February contains 28 days beginning on the first day of the week ), with the day of the month numbered in each cell, beginning with 1.

T contains 195 surviving cantigas ( 8 are missing due to loss of folios ) which roughly correspond in order to the first two hundred in E, each song being illustrated with either 6 or 12 miniatures that depict scenes from the cantiga.

The vita of Columba contains a story that has been interpreted as the first reference to the Loch Ness Monster.

* The first line contains, and may consist solely of, the subject's name.

The first is the " elitist coalition " or Shanghai clique which contains mainly officials who have risen from the more prosperous provinces.

Mg < sub > 2 </ sub > C < sub > 3 </ sub > yields methylacetylene, CH < sub > 3 </ sub > CCH, and propadiene, CH < sub > 2 </ sub > CCH < sub > 2 </ sub >, on hydrolysis, which was the first indication that it contains C < sub > 3 </ sub >< sup > 4 –</ sup >.

The first part of the book thus contains an extensive look at the history of psychological theories of learning and a minute re-interpretation of those concepts from the perspective of the paradigm of critical psychology, which focuses on intentional action situated in specific socio-historical / cultural contexts.

The reason this is called " disjunctive syllogism " is that, first, it is a syllogism, a three-step argument, and second, it contains a logical disjunction, which simply means an " or " statement.

The LDS Church's 1981 edition also contains two " Official Declarations " at the book's conclusion, the first renouncing polygamy in 1890, and the second in 1978 announcing the opening of priesthood ordination to all worthy male members including previously restricted members of African descent.

When a question contains two verbs, the response does not make clear which of them is being answered.

To summarize the purpose of the Skeletal Maturity Chart: each contains two kinds of skeletal maturity norms which show two quite different methods of depicting developmental level of growth centers.

Palfrey's autobiography contains a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters of Attakapas, `` many of whom were coarse & passionate people, much excited by what they heard of my plans ''.

A mixed-effects model contains experimental factors of both fixed and random-effects types, with appropriately different interpretations and analysis for the two types.

The present church was built in the 1700s and the graveyard contains memorials to the victims of two of Achill's greatest tragedies, the Kirchintilloch Fire ( 1937 ) and the Clew Bay Drowning ( 1894 ).

* Athene ( owl ), a genus that contains two to four living species of small owls

Each orbital is defined by a different set of quantum numbers ( n, l, and m ), and contains a maximum of two electrons each with their own spin quantum number.

* A medium glass ( 175 ml ) of 12 % ABV wine contains around two units of alcohol.

He points out that Shrine 261 is not strictly analogous to the Ark of the Covenant: it can only be said that the Anubis Shrine is " ark-like ", constructed of wood, gilded and gessoed, stored within a sacred tomb, " guarding " the treasury of the tomb ( and not the primary focus of that environment ), that it contains compartments within it that store and hold sacred objects, that it has a figure of Anubis on its lid, and that it was carried by two staves permanently inserted into rings at its base and borne by eight priests in the funerary procession to Tutankhamun's tomb.

Each tip of the " Y " of an antibody contains a paratope ( a structure analogous to a lock ) that is specific for one particular epitope ( similarly analogous to a key ) on an antigen, allowing these two structures to bind together with precision.

Letter 33 contains the statement of Abba Mari that two letters which he desired to insert could not be discovered by him.

The arrondissement contains other cantons that extend generally up the two rivers into central Corsica.

), contains a drawing representing two players aiming at a small cone instead of an earthenware ball or jack.

A 14th-century manuscript, Book of Prayers, in the Francis Douce collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford contains a drawing in which two persons are shown, but they bowl to no mark.

In languages with tagged unions such as ML, a tree node is often a tagged union of two types of nodes, one of which is a 3-tuple of data, left child, and right child, and the other of which is a " leaf " node, which contains no data and functions much like the null value in a language with pointers.

The superscription of the book is lengthier than most and contains two features.

H P Wilmott has noted that deep battle contains two critical differences – it advocated the idea of total war, not limited operations and it also rejected the idea of the decisive battle in favour of several large scale and simultaneous offensives.

It contains either three parts vodka and two parts coffee liqueur, per the Kahlúa bottle's label, or five parts vodka to two parts coffee liqueur, per IBA specified ingredients.

These two ranges are bordered on the west by a narrow coastal plain that contains Kampong Saom Bay, which faces the Gulf of Thailand.

The tile set contains two each of eleven civilian suit tiles ( 6-6, 1-1, 4-4, 1-3, 5-5, 3-3, 2-2, 5-6, 4-6, 1-6, 1-5 ) and one each of ten military suit tiles ( 3-6, 4-5 ; 2-6, 3-5 ; 2-5, 3-4 ; 2-4 ; 1-4, 2-3 ; 1-2 ).

The group maintains two inventories of " Heritage pubs ", the National Inventory ( NI ), which contains only those pubs that have been maintained in their original condition ( or have been modified very little ) for at least 30 years, but usually since at least World War II.