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Suppose and however
Suppose, however, that you pick two tickets rather than one.
Suppose, however, that we have some matrix Q that is not a pure rotation — due to round-off errors, for example — and we wish to find the quaternion q that most accurately represents Q.
Suppose, however, that we pass over this objection ; how does Peacock lay the foundation for general algebra?
Suppose, however, for a moment, all existing space to be bounded, and that a man runs forward to the uttermost borders, and stands upon the last verge of things, and then hurls forward a winged javelin ,— suppose you that the dart, when hurled by the vivid force, shall take its way to the point the darter aimed at, or that something will take its stand in the path of its flight, and arrest it?

Suppose and course
Suppose you recognize one student — call her Anna — from a prior course in which Anna either excelled or did poorly.

Suppose and was
Suppose at this very moment her father was calling my house in an effort to cancel the plans??
Suppose -- just suppose this guy was really what he said he was!!
`` Suppose it was not us that killed these aliens.
Suppose there was such a catalyst that shifted an equilibrium.
Suppose we look at S1 just a couple of years after it was built.
Thucydides wrote: Suppose the city of Sparta to be deserted, and nothing left but the temples and the ground-plan, distant ages would be very unwilling to believe that the power of the Lacedaemonians was at all equal to their fame.
Suppose further, because this is necessary to the alleged case for our nuclear weapon as the defence of last resort, that, as in 1940, the United States was standing aloof from the contest but that, in contrast with 1940, Britain and the Warsaw Pact respectively possessed the nuclear weaponry which they do today.
Suppose that a student performed poorly on a test and guesses that the cause was his not studying.
" Suppose further ," Socrates says, " that the man was compelled to look at the fire: wouldn't he be struck blind and try to turn his gaze back toward the shadows, as toward what he can see clearly and hold to be real?
INTERVIEWER: Suppose someone called you and said there was a kid, nineteen or twenty years old, who has been a very good boy, but all of a sudden this week he started walking around the neighborhood carrying a large cross.
Suppose it was discovered that the little boy was actually hired by the glazier, and paid a franc for every window he broke.
A video was also filmed for " Someday I Suppose " and it received minor airplay on MTV.
During an appearance on Larry King Live, he was asked by a telephone caller " Suppose we go to war and go into Iraq and there are no weapons of mass destruction ," Woodward responded " I think the chance of that happening is about zero.
Suppose Libet knows that your readiness potential peaked at millisecond 6, 810 of the experimental trial, and the clock dot was straight down ( which is what you reported you saw ) at millisecond 7, 005.
The theorem can also be used to deduce that the domain of a non-constant elliptic function f cannot be C. Suppose it was.
Suppose that Aesop is dissatisfied with his classic experiment in which one tortoise was found to beat one hare in a race, and decides to carry out a significance test to discover whether the results could be extended to tortoises and hares in general.
Suppose a fixed-coupon callable bond was brought to the market by a company.
After the release of two 1970 comedies, The Boatniks and Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came ?, Ameche was absent from theatrical movies for the next 13 years.
It is therefore known that in the conflict some aboriginals were killed, and that the colonists " had reason to Suppose more were wounded, as one was seen to be taken away bleeding ".
Suppose a loop was written like this:
Suppose that a nonsense mutation was introduced at the fourth triplet in the DNA sequence ( CGA ) causing the cytosine to be replaced with thymine, yielding TGA in the DNA sequence.
Suppose in the above example that the market value of the land being leased was actually 1, 200 a month, but the 1, 000 per month rate represented a break given to the tenant by the landlord.

Suppose and pass
Given a circle k, with a center O, and a point P outside of the circle, we want to construct the ( red ) tangent ( s ) to k that pass through P. Suppose the ( as yet unknown ) tangent t touches the circle in the point T. From symmetry, it is clear that the radius OT is orthogonal to the tangent.

Suppose and /
Suppose that the car is ascending at 2. 5 km / h.
Suppose a mass is attached to a spring which exerts an attractive force on the mass proportional to the extension / compression of the spring.
Suppose that E is an extension of the field F ( written as E / F and read E over F ).
This example is elementary, but demonstrates the general procedure: Suppose a car is driving at 100 km / hour ; how long does it take it to go 200 km?
Suppose the total composition were 50 / 50 %.
Suppose now that instead of one particle in this box we have N particles in the box and that these particles are fermions with spin 1 / 2.
Suppose we want to transmit information about a source to the user with a distortion not exceeding D. Rate – distortion theory tells us that at least R ( D ) bits / symbol of information from the source must reach the user.
Suppose there are 1000 on / off switches which have to be set to a particular combination by random-based testing, each test to take one second.
Suppose that ν > − 3 / 2 and σ < sub > n </ sub > are real numbers for positive integers n with limit 0 and such that
Suppose the curve is approximated by y = Cx < sup > p / q </ sup > near the origin.
Suppose we consider an ANOVA model having 2 qualitative variables, each with 2 categories: Hourly Wages in relation to Marital Status ( Married / Unmarried ) and Geographical Region ( North / Non-North ).
Suppose that Achilles is the fastest runner, and moves at a speed of 1 m / s.
Example: Suppose that the manifold is the circle ( thought of as R / Z ), and D is the operator d / dx − λ for some complex constant λ.
Suppose that it is not ; there is a 50 / 50 chance that node n-1 is higher than level 1.
Suppose that H is a locally compact Hausdorff group with a compact subgroup K. Then H acts on the quotient space X = H / K.
Suppose that M is a Cartan geometry modelled on G / H, and let ( Q, α ) be the principal G-bundle with connection, and ( P, η ) the corresponding reduction to H with η equal to the pullback of α.
Suppose w = z < sup > 1 / 2 </ sup >, and z starts at 4 and moves along a circle of radius 4 in the complex plane centered at 0.
Suppose you have a gram of rubidium-87 and with your Geiger counter, you get a count rate which, after taking solid angle effects into account, is consistent with a decay rate of 3200 decays per second ; this would correspond to a specific activity of 3. 2 × 10 < sup > 6 </ sup > Bq / kg.
Suppose that C is a smooth algebraic curve of genus g. If g is zero, then C is P < sup > 1 </ sup >, and the canonical class is the class of − 2P, where P is any point of C. This follows from the calculus formula d ( 1 / t ) = − dt / t < sup > 2 </ sup >, for example, a meromorphic differential with double pole at the point at infinity on the Riemann sphere.
# Suppose that √ 2 is the ratio of two natural numbers, √ 2 = m / n
# Suppose that m / n has been reduced to its lowest common form by division

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