The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

I used the alias of Robert C. Richards, gave the first three letters and the first and last figure of the license number on the agency heap, but a couple of phony numbers in between.

After describing the manifestation of the Gospel in the Ogdoad and Hebdomad, he adds that the Basilidians have a long account of the innumerable creations and powers in the several ' stages ' of the upper world ( diastemata ), in which they speak of 365 heavens and say that " their great archon " is Abrasax, because his name contains the number 365, the number of the days in the year ; i. e. the sum of the numbers denoted by the Greek letters in ΑΒΡΑΣΑΞ according to the rules of isopsephy is 365:

The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.

Being himself without sufficient authority, he appealed in a number of letters, afterward published under the title of Minḥat Ḳenaot ( Jealousy Offering ), to Solomon ben Adret of Barcelona, the most influential rabbi of the time, to use his powerful authority to check the source of evil by hurling his anathema against both the study of philosophy and the allegorical interpretations of the Bible, which did away with all belief in miracles.

The alphabet of Marin Drinov was used until the orthographic reform of 1945 when the letters yat, called " double e "), and yus, called " big yus " or " ъ кръстато ") were removed from the alphabet, reducing the number of letters to 30.

Within constellations having an extremely large number of stars, Bayer eventually advanced to upper-case Latin letters, as in G Scorpii ( G of the Scorpion ) and N Velorum ( N of the Sails ).

The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet.

Since the number of possible sounds in all of the world's languages is much greater than the number of letters in any one alphabet, linguists have devised systems such as the International Phonetic Alphabet ( IPA ) to assign a unique and unambiguous symbol to each attested consonant.

E is currently held in El Escorial and contains the largest number of songs ( 406 Cantigas, plus the Introduction and the Prologue ); it contains 41 carefully detailed miniatures and many illuminated letters.

With eleven keys in a 3 / 4 / 4 arrangement, 43 symbols could be arranged allowing for lowercase text, numbers and a modest number of punctuation symbols to be represented along with a ' shift ' function for accessing uppercase letters.

Note that the number of points used in braille computing is not 6, but 8, as this allows the user, among other things, to distinguish between small and capital letters, as well as identify the position of the cursor.

A number of works by Columbanus survive, including a monastic rule ( the Regula monachorum ), a number of letters, and some poetry ( see Columcille the Scribe ).

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

The South Korean army issues two long, rectangular tags with oval ends, stamped ( in Korean letters ) with " Ryuk Gun " (" Army ") above personal number, with name below that and blood group at bottom.

Books are catalogued in ascending numerical order ; when two or more books have the same classification number, the system sub-divides the class alphabetically, by the use of a call number ( usually the first letter, or letters, of the author's last name, or the title if there is no identifiable author.

Length may be understood in terms of orthography and number of written letters, or ( less commonly ) phonology and the number of phonemes.

Diacritical marks and non-English letters are ignored, while numerical entries such as " 1812, War of " are alphabetised as if the number had been written out (" Eighteen-twelve, War of ").

Phoenician gave way to a number of new writing systems, including the Greek alphabet and Aramaic, a widely used abjad.

Digamma ( or wau, uppercase, lowercase ; as a numeral: stigma, ϛ ) ( compare sigma ) is an archaic letter of the Greek alphabet, which originally stood for the sound and later remained in use only as a symbol for the number " 6 ".

In Lebanon, the right-wing Guardians of the Cedars, a fiercely nationalistic ( mainly Christian ) political party which opposes the country's ties to the Arab world, is agitating for " Lebanese " to be recognized as a distinct language from Arabic and not merely a dialect, and has even advocated replacing the Arabic alphabet with a revival of the ancient Phoenician alphabet, which lacks a number of characters to write typical Arabic phonemes present in Lebanese, and lost by Phoenician ( and Hebrew ) in the second millennium BC.

For groups 1 to 4, the number consists of three digits and a letter of the alphabet.

He proposed the reduction of the alphabet to 22 letters ( by eliminating the accented letters and most of their sounds ), the change of the plural to-i, the use of a positional accusative instead of the ending-n, the removal of the distinction between adjectives and adverbs, the reduction of the number of participles from six to two, and the replacement of the table of correlatives with more Latinate words or phrases.

The number of letters in the original Glagolitic alphabet is not known, but may have been close to its presumed Greek model.

In this period a number of technological innovations spread, most notably iron working and the Phoenician alphabet, developed by the Phoenicians or the Canaanites around the 16th century BC.

One often finds books of the Iliad and Odyssey cited by the corresponding letter of the Greek alphabet, with upper-case letters referring to a book number of the Iliad and lower-case letters referring to the Odyssey.

Shannon's entropy represents an absolute limit on the best possible lossless compression of any communication, under certain constraints: treating messages to be encoded as a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables, Shannon's source coding theorem shows that, in the limit, the average length of the shortest possible representation to encode the messages in a given alphabet is their entropy divided by the logarithm of the number of symbols in the target alphabet.

Finnish is a language with a relatively small native alphabet and with an even smaller number of letters that usually begin a word.

The changes in the carrier signal are chosen from a finite number of M alternative symbols ( the modulation alphabet ).

More useful still are systems which employ special abbreviations for repetitions of symbols ; for example, using the first nine letters of the alphabet for these abbreviations, with A standing for " one occurrence ", B " two occurrences ", and so on, one could then write C + D / for the number 304.

The major problem with Bayer's naming system was the number of letters in the Greek alphabet ( 24 ).

With the advent of photography the number of variables piled up quickly, and variable star names soon fell into the Bayer trap of reaching the end of the alphabet while still having stars to name.

God uses each number to represent a different supernal aspect of reality that He creates, to reflect their comprehensive inclusion in His absolute Oneness: 10 Sephirot, 12 Partzufim, 2 forms of Light, 2 Partzufim and 3 Heads in Keter, 4 letters of the Tetragrammaton, 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet, 13 Attributes of Mercy, etc.

The telling point that Galileo presented ironically was that if you really wanted to start from a small number of entities, you could always consider the letters of the alphabet as the fundamental entities, since you could construct the whole of human knowledge out of them.

James W. Valentine, while admitting that the classic monkey's task is impossible, finds that there is a worthwhile analogy between written English and the metazoan genome in this other sense: both have " combinatorial, hierarchical structures " that greatly constrain the immense number of combinations at the alphabet level.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

That is how the real routine of resistance goes on, and its strength is directly proportionate to the number of insignificant people who can let themselves be taken to pieces, piece by piece, without quitting.

She can decrease the number of temptations.

The Peace Corps can either begin in very low gear, with only preparatory work undertaken between now and when Congress finally appropriates special funds for it -- or it can be launched now and in earnest by executive action, with sufficient funds and made available from existing Mutual Security appropriations to permit a number of substantial projects to start this summer.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.

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.

As America on wheels was responsible for an industry of motor courts, motels, and drive-in establishments where you can dine, see a movie, shop, or make a bank deposit, the ever-increasing number of boating enthusiasts have sparked industries designed especially to accommodate them.

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

In your sales force, will a smaller number of higher-priced, high-quality salesmen serve you best, or can you make out better with a larger number of lower-paid salesmen??

We found that wherever you can use two teams on a job, five men, not four, is the magic number ''.

A binomial experiment can produce random variables other than the number of successes.

In the following paper it is shown that in a certain definite sense, exactly an odd number of squares can be inscribed in every such curve which does not contain an infinite number of inscribed squares.

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.

It is planned to double the number of teams and to make use of improved equipment in a second demographic inquiry in 1960, so that the inquiry can be carried through in one year and the results published more expeditiously.

In the Steiners have busy lives without visiting relatives only context can indicate whether visiting relatives is equivalent in meaning to paying visits to relatives or to relatives who are visiting them, and in I looked up the number and I looked up the chimney only the meanings of number and chimney make it clear that up is syntactically a second complement in the first sentence and a preposition followed by its object in the second.

Second, as we increase the number of desegregated school districts and schools themselves, how can we achieve this action through school board action??

At the same time, every device that can be employed to reduce the number of variables is of the greatest value, and it is one of the attractive features of dynamic programming that room is left for ingenuity in using the special features of the problem to this end.

List the number of hours the family can be expected to work each month.