The first function is assumed, if the expression in the argument contains more characters or, than characters, and the second function is assumed in the opposite case.

Boethius in his second Commentary and The Consolation of Philosophy, this argument maintains the effectiveness of prayer.

Powers are usually also written without operator, but with the second argument as superscript.

The second book is largely devoted to the respective roles of faith and philosophical argument.

At the beginning of the second meditation, having reached what he considers to be the ultimate level of doubt — his argument from the existence of a deceiving god — Descartes examines his beliefs to see if any have survived the doubt.

" Tertullian argument that second marriage " consists essentially in fornication " is seen to extend to the first and lawful marriage.

The reason this is called " disjunctive syllogism " is that, first, it is a syllogism, a three-step argument, and second, it contains a logical disjunction, which simply means an " or " statement.

Abramowitz and Stegun substitute the integral of the first kind,, for the argument in their definition of the integrals of the second and third kinds, unless this argument is followed by a backslash: i. e. for.

This is a functor which is contravariant in the first and covariant in the second argument, i. e. it is a functor Ab < sup > op </ sup > × Ab → Ab ( where Ab denotes the category of abelian groups with group homomorphisms ).

This defines a functor to Set which is contravariant in the first argument and covariant in the second, i. e. it is a functor C < sup > op </ sup > × C → Set.

The second cornerstone of the Fermi paradox is a rejoinder to the argument by scale: given intelligent life's ability to overcome scarcity, and its tendency to colonize new habitats, it seems likely that at least some civilizations would be technologically advanced, seek out new resources in space and then colonize first their own star system and subsequently the surrounding star systems.

The second argument they had was against the amount of land taken and unsatisfactory compensation offered in comparison.

In addition, the < operator returns its second argument if it succeeds, allowing things like < code > if a < b < c </ code >, a common type of comparison that in most languages must be written as a disjunction of two inequalities like < code > if a < b && b < c </ code >.

Remark: Some authors, especially in physics and matrix algebra, prefer to define the inner product and the sesquilinear form with linearity in the second argument rather than the first.

Then the first argument becomes conjugate linear, rather than the second.

The second argument runs as follows ;

The second step includes an argument from fallacy.

From a programmatical perspective, the first argument to is passed by reference, while the second is passed by value.

These operators are commonly pronounced as " mod ", but it is specifically a remainder that is computed ( since in C ++ a negative number will be returned if the first argument is negative, and in Python a negative number will be returned if the second argument is negative ).

Singer comments that defenders of abortion attack the second premise, suggesting that the fetus becomes a " human " or " alive " at some point after conception ; however, Singer finds this argument flawed in that that human development is a gradual process, and it is nearly impossible to mark a particular moment in time as the moment at which human life begins.

Singer's argument for abortion differs from many other proponents of abortion, then ; rather than attacking the second premise of the anti-abortion argument, Singer attacks the first premise, denying that it is necessarily wrong to take innocent human life:

For a 256-bit block, the first row is unchanged and the shifting for the second, third and fourth row is 1 byte, 3 bytes and 4 bytes respectively — this change only applies for the Rijndael cipher when used with a 256-bit block, as AES does not use 256-bit blocks.

* Conservation of Momentum: This equation applies Newton's second law of motion to a continuum, whereby force is equal to the time derivative of momentum.

In other words, deutero ( second ) applies to authority or witnessing power, whereas in Roman Catholicism, deutero applies to chronology ( the fact that these books were confirmed later ), not to authority.

* New grain ( chadash ): in Leviticus 23: 14 the Bible prohibits newly grown grain ( planted after Passover the previous year ) until the second day of Passover ; there is debate as to whether this law applies to grain grown outside the Land of Israel

( Since its formation, the BN has never lacked the necessary two-thirds until March 8, 2008's General Election ) The second source of law is syariah ( Islamic law ), which applies only to Muslims.

The second law only applies to a particle that does not exchange matter with its surroundings, and so it is equivalent to write

In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means " one of X ", while the second " two or more of X ", and the difference is always the plural form-s affixed to the second word, signaling the key distinction between singular and plural entities.

The second edition asserts that preference-satisfaction utilitarianism, incorporating the ' journey ' model, applies without invoking the first edition's suggestion about the total view.

Between 1000 ( when al-Biruni used seconds ) and 1960 the second was defined as 1 / 86, 400 of a mean solar day ( that definition still applies in some astronomical and legal contexts ).

For a thermodynamic account of a process in terms of the entropies of small local regions, the definition of entropy should be such as to ensure that the second law of thermodynamics applies in each small local region.

The principle is typically used to describe closed negative-feedback systems, but applies, in general, to thermodynamically closed and isolated systems in nature, since the second law of thermodynamics ensures that the disequilibrium caused by an instantaneous shock must have a finite half-life.

; " The Illustrated Man ": An overweight carnival worker is given a second chance as a Tattooed Man, and visits a strange woman who applies skin illustrations over his entire body.

The doctrine also applies when a testator executes a second, or new will and revokes his old will under the ( mistaken ) belief that the new will would be valid.

" The second use of the word " predestination " applies this to the salvation, and refers to the belief that God appointed the eternal destiny of some to salvation by grace, while leaving the remainder to receive eternal damnation for all their sins, even their original sin.

In the case of two mirrors, in planes at an angle α, looking through both from the sector which is the intersection of the two halfspaces, is like looking at a version of the world rotated by an angle of 2α ; the points of observations and directions of looking for which this applies correspond to those for looking through a frame like that of the first mirror, and a frame at the mirror image with respect to the first plane, of the second mirror.

A second difference is that the first recursion theorem only applies to systems of equations that can be recast as recursive operators.

The second term applies particularly to military personnel and to members of sports teams, but is also applicable in business and in any other organizational context, particularly in times of stress or controversy.

However, the same difference applies with a drop D capo as with a regular capo ; namely, only the open tuning of the strings is affected, and thus, when used at the second fret, an E chord using the D shape will have the " Drop D sound " with a low E note.

The California-based tech-pop band Brilliant Red Lights also applies the word in the song " Neoism ," the first track off their second album, Actualism.

Author Tracy Little asserts that in addition to the theme of love vs. duty, " you are not who I thought you were " applies to the second season, and notably, centers around Jenny Calendar.

The second volume applies the theorems of the first volume to many games, including nim, sprouts, dots and boxes, Sylver coinage, philosopher's football, fox and geese.

During part of this time, MIT's Project MAC had a second copy of CTSS, but the system did not spread beyond two sites ( though this applies to many early computer systems ).