Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

There is some indication from a limited number of interviews with members of the population that the element of power, primarily the voluntary influence of non-authoritative power, has been exerted on actors in the system, particularly in regard to mate selection.

Essentially this imposed two conditions: First, international law had to recognize and be compatible with an international political system in which a number of states were competitive, suspicious, and opportunistic in their political alignments with one another ; ;

The Barker system is based on the use of the smallest number of interfacial angles necessary for indexing purposes.

Amphibians have a skeletal system that is structurally homologous to other tetrapods, though with a number of variations.

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

It lacks the inflections of English, such as tense and number, and does not use articles such as " the ", but its spatial mode of expression has enabled it to develop an elaborate system of grammatical aspect that is absent from English.

An even stronger assertion is that It is impossible by any procedure to reduce the temperature of a system to zero in a finite number of operations.

where < big ></ big > is the number of degrees of freedom divided by two, R is the universal gas constant and n is the number of moles in the system ( a constant ).

In 1171, Absalon issued the " Zealand church law " (), which reduced the number of Canonical Law offenses for which the church could fine the public, while instituting the tithe payment system.

Because this system is based on automatic number identification ( not caller ID ) and meant for phone company technicians, the ANAC system works with unlisted numbers, numbers with caller ID blocking, and numbers with no outgoing calls allowed.

Installers of multi-line business services where outgoing calls from all lines display the company's main number on call display can use ANAC to identify a specific line in the system, even if CID displays every line as " line one ".

Regardless, if one were to call one of these numbers, listen for the number confirmation and hang up, they would in effect be using this system as if it were an ANAC.

In analytic geometry, the plane is given a coordinate system, by which every point has a pair of real number coordinates.

The maximum frame rate depends on the bandwidth of the electronics and the transmission system, and the number of horizontal scan lines in the image.

The television system for each country will specify a number of television channels within the UHF or VHF frequency ranges.

Programmed cell death in plants has a number of molecular similarities to animal apoptosis, but it also has differences, notably the presence of a cell wall and the lack of an immune system which removes the pieces of the dead cell.

A packet voice system can produce this low jitter in a number of ways:

Due to the acquisition of the Atari Consumer Division by Jack Tramiel in 1984, a number of planned peripherals for the system were canceled.

* Approximate number system, a hypothesized physiological basis for the sense of number

A number of serious concerns about the technical abilities of the system came to light, many of which reached popular magazines such as Scientific American.

Early number systems that included positional notation were not decimal, including the sexagesimal ( base 60 ) system for Babylonian numerals and the vigesimal ( base 20 ) system that defined Maya numerals

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

In this connection, it has been observed that the increasing number of Irish Catholics, priests and laity, in England, while certainly seen as good for Catholicism, is nevertheless a source of embarrassment for some of the more nationalistic English Catholics, especially when these Irishmen offer to remind their Christian brethren of this good.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Only after 1915, with the suggestion and evidence that this Z number was also the nuclear charge and a physical characteristic of atoms, did the word and its English equivalent atomic number come into common use.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

Chief among other English dialects are Canadian English ( based on the English of United Empire Loyalists who left the 13 Colonies ), and Australian English, which rank third and fourth in number of native speakers.

The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) provoked a number of examples of this genre, including works by Sir Edmund Ludlow and Sir John Reresby.

As a boy he visited the United Kingdom, and he had a number of British tutors in Cairo including a governess who taught him English.

Housman's poetry, especially A Shropshire Lad, provided texts for a significant number of British, and in particular English, composers in the first half of the 20th century.

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

Between then and 1764, when a more formal revised version was published, a number of things happened which were to separate the Scottish Episcopal liturgy more firmly from either the English books of 1549 or 1559.

A number of French comedians were also able to find an English speaking audience in the 1950s, including Fernandel and Jacques Tati.

Hedonism, for example, teaches that this feeling is pleasure — either one's own, as in egoism ( the 17th-century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes ), or everyone's, as in universalistic hedonism, or utilitarianism ( the 19th-century English philosophers Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick ), with its formula of the " greatest pleasure of the greatest number.

In 1991 there were 2, 000 foreign learners taking China's official Chinese Proficiency Test ( comparable to the English Cambridge Certificate ), while in 2005, the number of candidates had risen sharply to 117, 660 .< ref > " 汉语水平考试中心 ： 2005年外国考生总人数近12万 ",< sup > Gov. cn </ sup > Xinhua News Agency, January 16, 2006 .</ ref >

The Mexican Army included a number of horse mounted cavalry regiments as late as the mid 1990s and the Chilean Army had five such regiments in 1983 as mounted mountain troops ( see Jane's " Armed Forces of Latin America " by Adrian J. English ).

In American English the word corporation is widely used to describe incorporated entities, especially those that have a large number of shareholders, and in respect of which, ownership can be transferred without the need for the consent of other shareholders.

Syllabaries typically contain 50 to 400 glyphs ( though the Múra-Pirahã language of Brazil would require only 24 if it did not denote tone, and Rotokas would require only 30 ), and the glyphs of logographic systems typically number from the many hundreds into the thousands.

APL ( named after the book A Programming Language ) is an interactive array-oriented language and integrated development environment, which is available from a number of commercial and noncommercial vendors and for most computer platforms .< ref >

Today, it is estimated that fewer than 100 speakers of the language remain, while other research places the number at fewer than 15 speakers – the language has been regarded as “ endangered ”.

Nevertheless, he admits, humans and animals differ in mental faculties in a number of ways, including: differences in memory and attention, inferential abilities, ability to make deductions in a long chain, ability to grasp ideas more or less clearly, the human capacity to worry about conflating unrelated circumstances, a sagely prudence which arrests generalizations, a capacity for a greater inner library of analogies to reason with, an ability to detach oneself and scrap one's own biases, and an ability to converse through language ( and thus gain from the experience of others ' testimonies ).

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

A relatively small number of men were also employed on a part-time basis, typically for one shift each week ( e. g. Post Office employees who were experts in Morse code or the German language ).

The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.

* List of Bantu language names with synonyms ordered by Guthrie number.

As a national revival occurred towards the end of the period of Ottoman rule ( mostly during the 19th century ), a modern Bulgarian literary language gradually emerged which drew heavily on Church Slavonic / Old Bulgarian ( and to some extent on literary Russian, which had preserved many lexical items from Church Slavonic ) and later reduced the number of Turkish and other Balkanic loans.

The language also included some changes made to suit Thompson's preferences ( mostly along the lines of reducing the number of non-whitespace characters in a typical program ).

Experiments are consistent with the number of quarks in the universe being a constant and, to be more specific, the number of baryons being a constant ; in technical language, the total baryon number appears to be conserved.

This means that in spite of long having been the Celtic language with the highest number of speakers, the language is now endangered.

As a result, British and American operatives intercepted and photographed a manuscript of the novel and secretly printed a small number of books allegedly published by Feltrinelli in the Russian language.

All the known languages have words for at least " one " and " two " ( although this is disputed: see Piraha language ), and even some animals like the blackbird can distinguish a surprising number of items.

The Illyrian movement attracted a number of influential figures from 1830s on, and produced some important advances in the Croatian language and culture.

This last language has the smallest number of consonants in the world, with just six.

To this day Gaelic is still the first language of a number of elderly Cape Bretoners.

* To prove that a given language is not context-free, one may employ the pumping lemma for context-free languages or a number of other methods, such as Ogden's lemma, Parikh's theorem, or using closure properties.

This apparent " number mismatch " is actually a quite natural and logical feature of human language, and its mechanism is a subtle metonymic shift in the thoughts underlying the words.

The language of Cholistan also reflects a number of features of its historical and geographical background.