Hopcroft and Ullman ( 1979, p. 148 ) formally define a ( one-tape ) Turing machine as a 7-tuple where

Hank had gathered wood for a cookfire, and his wife was busy at it now.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

Follow the colorful and busy Via D. Giubbonari for a hundred yards or so.

After a supper of unagi ( rice with eel -- eel which is raised in an ice-cold pond at the foot of Mt. Fuji ), I returned to my beautiful room to sleep as hard as possible to be ready for another busy day.

This day was `` Open House for Parents '' day, and the girls were busy preparing exhibits and arranging tea tables.

The game opened a busy week for Washington.

and the eagle, who leads the bird community when he is not too busy in Washington posing for fifty-cent pieces.

It was an additional misfortune for Alexei that his father should have been too busy to attend to him just as he was growing up from boyhood to manhood.

While he was busy with the burial ceremonies for his brother, the Danes defeated the English in his absence at an unnamed spot, and then again in his presence at Wilton in May.

*" It is well that people busy themselves with the study of the Law and the performance of charitable deeds, even when not entirely disinterested ; for the habit of right-doing will finally make the intention pure " ( Pesahim 50b ).

Gaither Studios is a very busy recording center for different types of music.

Initially, Raimi invited Scott Spiegel to co-write Army of Darkness because he had done a good job on Evil Dead II, but he was busy on rewrites for the Clint Eastwood film The Rookie.

In the 1930s Italy designed the world's only triple decker bus for the busy route between Rome and Tivoli that could carry eighty-eight passengers.

The privateer-turned-pirate Henry Jennings and his followers decided, early in the 18th century, to use the then uninhabited island of New Providence as a base for their operations ; it was within easy reach of the Florida Strait and its busy shipping lanes, which were filled with European vessels crossing the Atlantic.

In case the line is busy, prospective recruits are asked to meditate on the five magic words for a few minutes, and then try calling again.

From October 1840 until January 1843 he was in Paris, busy with the treasures of the Bibliothèque Nationale, eking out his scanty means by making collations for other scholars, and producing for the publisher, Firmin Didot, several editions of the Greek New Testament — one of them exhibiting the form of the text corresponding most closely to the Vulgate.

Following the colonisation of the Caribbean islands, the Caribbean Sea became a busy area for European-based marine trading and transport, and this commerce eventually attracted piracy.

Dilbert portrays corporate culture as a Kafkaesque world of bureaucracy for its own sake and office politics that stand in the way of productivity, where employees ' skills and efforts are not rewarded, and busy work is praised.

When the invitation arrived, Kaye was busy at work on The Inspector General ( which had a working title of Happy Times for a while ).

Many Ericales species are cultivated for their showy flowers: well-known examples are azalea, rhododendron, camellia, polyanthus, cyclamen, phlox, and busy Lizzie.

For example, if an office has two telephone operators who are both busy all the time, that would represent two erlangs ( 2 E ) of traffic ; or a radio channel that is occupied for one hour continuously is said to have a load of 1 Erlang.

An alternative is to calculate a busy hour traffic value separately for each day ( which may correspond to slightly different times each day ) and take the average of these values.

Dorothy might have believed that the company could not deliver CP / M-86 on IBM's proposed schedule, as the company was busy developing an implementation of the PL / I programming language for Data General.

In Atlanta, Scarlett's spirits revive and she is busy with hospital work and sewing circles for the Confederate army.

They are known for their alarm signal: when startled or frightened, a swimming beaver will rapidly dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail, audible over great distances above and below water.

Once a beaver has sounded the alarm, nearby beavers will dive and may not reemerge for some time.

Thackston argues that the name cannot be taken from babr and instead must be derived from a word that has evolved out of the Indo-European word for beaver, pointing to the fact that the name is pronounced bāh-bor in both Persian and Turkic, similar to the Russian word for beaver ( бобр – bobr ).

In its trade with native peoples, the Hudson's Bay Company exchanged wool blankets, called Hudson's Bay point blankets, for the beaver pelts trapped by aboriginal hunters.

In addition, the fur industry was undermined by changing fashion styles: a new demand for silk hats replaced the demand for beaver fur.

A by-product of the trade in beaver pelts was castoreum — the secretion of the animals ' anal glands — which was used for its medicinal properties.

Male yetis look like the ' real-life ' Yeti only they have large, beaver tails, have saddles for hats and speak with poor grammar.

Under McLoughlin's management, the Columbia Department remained highly profitable, in part due to the ongoing high demand for beaver hats in Europe.

In most of Canada the term is synonymous with the fur trade, since fur for making beaver hats was by far the most valuable product of the trade, from the European point of view.

Between 1810 and 1840, the region attracted fur trading companies that vied for control of the lucrative beaver fur trade.

John Colter is widely considered the first mountain man and, like those that came to the Jackson Hole region over the next 30 years, he was there primarily for the profitable fur trapping ; the region was rich with the highly sought after pelts of beaver and other fur bearing animals.

As the demand for beaver fur declined and the various regions of the American West became depleted of beaver due to over trapping, American fur trading companies folded ; however, individual mountain men continued to trap beaver in the region until about 1840.

The national park lies within the Colorado Plateau geographic province of North America and straddles the southeastern edge of the Paunsagunt Plateau west of the Paunsagunt Fault ( Paunsagunt is Paiute for " home of the beaver ").

Thus, beaver fur and wampum were used as money in the north for exchanges with the Indians, and fish and corn also served as money.

Fur trappers, often working for fur traders, followed nearly all possible streams looking for beaver in the years ( 1812 – 1840 ) the fur trade was active.

By 1840 the fashion in Europe and Britain shifted away from the formerly very popular beaver felt hats and prices for furs rapidly declined and the trapping almost ceased.