' Now the number of mice is largely dependent, as every one knows, on the number of cats ; and Mr. Newman says, ' Near villages and small towns I have found the nests of humble-bees more numerous than elsewhere, which I attribute to the number of cats that destroy the mice.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

He was in and out of Mount Alto Hospital for veterans any number of times.

They involve similar uncertainties regarding the multiple identities of any number of non-Jewish groups.

`` We've had any number of calls about you.

To have any success in this effort, we must ourselves view it as an enterprise stretching over a considerable number of years, and we must encourage the recipients of our aid to view it in the same fashion.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

You may dress it up with any number of accessories or keep it as simple as you choose.

If your state has no provisions for the numbering of pleasure boats, you must apply for a number from the U.S. Coast Guard for any kind of boat with mechanical propulsion rated at more than 10 horsepower before it can be used on Federal waterways.

Actually, the engine displacement formula is the standard formula for computing the volume of a cylinder of any type with an added factor that represents the number of cylinders in the engine.

The depth gauge rod can now be set, and any number of holes bored to exact and identical depth.

There may be possible economies at any one of a number of links in your marketing and distribution chain.

Furthermore, one can find a neighborhood of Q in which the difference function is monotone, for since it is analytic it can have only a finite number of extrema in any interval.

First, for any value of T for which all values of f{t} are ordinary points the number of values of f{t} must be odd.

Therefore, for any value of T the number of values of f{t} is equal to the ( finite ) number of tangent points corresponding to the argument T plus an odd number.

The remaining ( incomplete ) components all have an even number of ordinary points at any argument, and are defined only on a proper sub-interval of Aj.

So a quick count could be made at any time, even by an illiterate clerk, of the number of registered persons in four age-and-sex classes.

and which, more often than all these, conveys a welter of feelings which could in no way be conveyed by any number of words, words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another.

However, in the actual assessment of the cutting force by instrumental methods for any thickness of coating a number of spurious effects occur which must be taken into account and which make the measured value larger than the true cutting force indicated by eqn. ( 1 ).

Proceeding in this way, from one to two and from two to three stages, we may gradually build up the policy for any number.

then the search for the maximum at any one stage will require a number of operations of order Af ( where a is some number not unreasonably large ).

In contrast, the dynamic program produces this policy and a whole family of policies for any smaller number of stages.

We also see how the results may be presented, although if n, the number of state variables, is large any tabulation will become cumbersome.

* Field 4: Personenkennziffer ( service number: birth date in DDMMYY format, dash, capitalized first letter of last name, dash, and five-digit number based on soldier's home military administrative district, number of persons with the mentioned last name and same birthday, and an error-checking number but without dashes ), ex.

Each district comprises a main district office, and a number of Resident Posts, which are FDA offices located away from the district office to serve a particular geographic area.

In an attempt to win last minute votes from moderate pro-democracy lawmakers, the government amended its reform package on 19 December by proposing a gradual cut in the number of district council members appointed by the Chief Executive.

In five shire counties the functions of the county and district councils were combined into a single authority ; and in two counties the powers of the county council were absorbed into a significantly reduced number of districts.

For example, in United States federal courts, the United States district courts have original jurisdiction over a number of different matters ( as mentioned above ), and the United States court of appeals have appellate jurisdiction over matters appealed from the district courts.

It was the first suburban shopping district in the United States, designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile, and is surrounded by apartments and condominiums, including a number of high rise buildings.

From the 1950s to 1970s a large number of Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese immigrated, settling mostly in the industrial district of Renens and transforming the local diet.

This Act modified the Judiciary Act of 1789 in establishing ten new district courts, expanding the number of circuit courts from three to six, and adding additional judges to each circuit, giving the President the authority to appoint Federal judges and justices of the peace.

In most common law countries, appointments and their number for a given notarial district are highly regulated.

The constituency or district magnitude ( DM ) of a system is therefore measured by the number of seats per constituency.

In America the Summer of Love of 1967 saw huge number of young people from across American and the world travel to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, boosting the population from 15, 000 to around 100, 000.

While the allocation formula is important, equally important is the district magnitude ( number of seats in a constituency ).

When the king would issue a call to leidang, the Viking Age equivalent of military conscript service, a Roden district was responsible for raising a number of ships for the leidang navy.

Open enrollment also refers to educational policies which allow residents of a state to enroll their children in any public school, provided the school has not reached its maximum capacity number for students, regardless of the school district in which a family resides.

In determining which areas are considered " urban " and which are " suburban ", the national statistical agency, Statistics Canada, has examined a number of potential methods for drawing the distinction, including municipal boundaries, age of the housing stock, distance from city hall or the central business district, and housing ( but not population ) density.

Each house has a unique number in the district, from one to several thousand, generally numbered from one corner of the area to another, but not usually in a readily understandable manner.

The eastern wing formed the single province of East Bengal ( including the former Assam district of Sylhet ), which, despite having over half of the population, had a disproportionately small number of seats in the Constituent Assembly.

The number of pieces is described on temple walls variously as fourteen and sixteen, and occasionally forty-two, one for each nome or district.

The number of days with snow can reach up to 57 days in and around the Kalisz district.