The choices of letters come from the original convention, which is to use the latter part of the alphabet to indicate unknown values.

Astronomers preferred the latter GMT convention in order to simplify their observational data so that each entire night was logged under a single calendar date.

The latter may cause confusion because it resembles an English convention sometimes used for married and maiden names.

It has been a point of contention ever since which is correct ; the latter is more correctly formed, but the convention in taxonomy is that the first name given stands, unless it is clearly a typographical error.

Torp belonged to the latter wing, which assumed power at the 1923 national convention.

The first convention is common in English speaking countries, but the latter is favored in for example Sweden ( tvåtusentalet, which translates literally as the two thousands period ).

Greatly daring, he even rescues love from the convention which had made it the prerogative of the nobly born ; contrasts the titles " woman " ( wîp ) and " lady " ( froûwe ) to the disadvantage of the latter ; and puts the most beautiful of his lyrics — Unter der linden — into the mouth of a simple girl.

Undirected graphs often use the latter convention of counting loops twice, whereas directed graphs typically use the former convention.

In 1964 the name was still recorded as denoting both groups, namely the Malococincla, i. e. Illadopsis near-babblers in West Africa, and the Sheppardia chats in East African literature, though the latter convention prevailed in modern times.

In the latter part of the campaign he served against the Prussian contingent of General Yorck ( von Wartenburg ), with whom, through Clausewitz, he negotiated the celebrated convention of Tauroggen, serving thereafter with Yorck in the early part of the War of Liberation.

It has been a point of contention ever since which is correct ; the latter is more correctly formed, but the convention in taxonomy is that the first name given stands, unless it is clearly a typographical error.

The name is both a parody of the television show Space: 1999 and a continuation of the GDW naming convention applied to two of its previous role-playing games, Twilight: 2000 and Traveller: 2300 ( the latter of which was later renamed 2300 AD ), though neither previous game had any connection to the Space: 1889 universe.

The latter uses a de-tuned version of the 798 cc engine fitted to the F800GS, marking a departure from BMW's naming convention.

Helping behind-the-scenes was Steve Moore, a kindred-spirit whom Rickard met at a comics convention when the latter was a sub-editor at IPC.

At the 2006 leadership convention in Montreal, Martin's final speech as outgoing leader paid tribute to Chrétien, but the latter was not present for the event.

Since the former convention is mainly used by Anglophones while the latter is often preferred by Francophones, it is customary to refer to these conventions respectively as the English notation and the French notation ; for instance, in his book on symmetric functions, Macdonald advises readers preferring the French convention to " read this book upside down in a mirror " ( Macdonald 1979, p. 2 ).

English speakers may find the latter construction akin to the parliamentary convention of referring to fellow legislators in the third person ( as " my colleague ", " the gentleman ", " the member ", etc.

The latter was a cause for controversy, with many residents saying that the city of Knoxville did not offer enough amenities to attract would-be events or shows to a convention center.

Sixth Street was formerly named Pecan Street under Austin's older naming convention, which had east-west streets named after trees and north-south streets named after Texas rivers ( the latter convention remains in place ).

In March 2009, he presented a soft launch of his first solo album, titled The Artist, at The Fest for Beatles Fans convention in New Jersey, where he also previewed music videos for the songs " Happy " and " All The Tea In China ", the latter of which also featured his brother Brett Hudson.

: The mold for this figure is also used for Animated Ironhide and the BotCon 2011 exclusive Autotrooper and Fisitron ( the latter being a giveaway to convention attendees ).

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.

The latter was so upset on learning of the death of Morris, that he wrote Morgan a letter, showing his own warmhearted generosity.

But Morgan did not leave before he had written a letter to a William Pickman in Salem, Massachusetts, apparently an acquaintance, praising Washington and saying that the slanders propagated about him were `` opposed by the general current of the people to exalt General Gates at the expense of General Washington was injurious to the latter.

Nogaret is hardly an impartial witness, and even he did not make his charges against Boniface until the latter was dead, but there is some truth in what he said and more in what he did not say.

In all the talk of feudal rights, the knights and bishops must never forget the woolworkers, nor was it easy to do so, for all along the road to Italy they passed the Florentine pack trains going home with their loads of raw wool from England and rough Flemish cloth, the former to be spun and woven by the Arte Della Lana and the latter to be refined and dyed by the Arte Della Calimala with the pigment recently discovered in Asia Minor by one of their members, Bernardo Rucellai, the secret of which they jealously kept for themselves.

For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.

He appeared in the hopples about November 14, was treated for worms on the 18th, the latter date being the first time he struck a real pace.

A detailed study of this latter phenomenon was not attempted in this paper.

To prepare the latter, silver chloride was precipitated from a solution containing Af obtained from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

During the latter procedure the temperature was maintained at 2-degrees-C by surrounding the apparatus with ice.

The latter adhesive was found to be much more satisfactory.

At the central level the scrutin uninominal voting system was selected over some form of the scrutin de liste system, even though the latter had been recommended by Duverger and favored by all political parties.

When the power of the latter was made both limited and explicit -- when norms were clarified and made more precise and the creation of new norms was placed exclusively in parliamentary hands -- two purposes were served: Government was made subservient to an institutionalized popular will, and law became a rational system for implementing that will, for serving conscious goals, for embodying the `` public policy ''.

The latter now furnishes the area with electricity distributed from a modern sub-station at Manchester Depot which was put into operation February 19, 1930 and was improved in January 1942 by the installation of larger transformers.

During the Han dynasty, another Yin-Yang conception was applied to the Lo Shu, considering the latter as a plan of Ancient China.

As the 6502 by itself was too slow to control both the game play and the vector hardware at the same time, the latter task was delegated to the DVG.

The term allegiance was traditionally often used by English legal commentators in a larger sense, divided by them into natural and local, the latter applying to the deference which even a foreigner must pay to the institutions of the country in which he happens to live.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.