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The upper slots contained a single bead while the lower slots contained four beads, the only exceptions being the two rightmost columns, column 2 marked Ө and column 3 with three symbols down the side of a single slot or beside three separate slots with Ɛ, 3 or S or a symbol like the £ sign but without the horizontal bar beside the top slot, a backwards C beside the middle slot and a 2 symbol beside the bottom slot, depending on the example abacus and the source which could be Friedlein, Menninger or Ifrah.
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The spacing between pulses varies, and the length of each space determines the following characteristics ( each of which is assigned to one of the " time slots " between two of the pulses ): position of Teddy's eyes, upper jaw, lower jaw, and ( if Grubby is attached ) the position of Grubby's eyes, upper jaw and lower jaw.
The Acorn System 4 was similar to the System 3, but in a double height frame, containing fourteen slots in the lower frame, and two floppy disk drives in the upper half of the frame above them.
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The halves contained the same set of data and were identical, except the upper half had two holes for a string or twine to go through.
In France, the Parlement de Paris, with its strong upper bourgeois background and Jansenist sympathies, opened the pressure to expel the Jesuits from France in the spring of 1761, and the published excerpts from Jesuit writings, the Extrait des assertions, provided anti-Jesuit ammunition ( though, arguably, many of the statements the Extrait contained were made to look worse than they were through judicious omission of context ).
The upper class is generally contained within the wealthiest 1 or 2 percent of the population.
A subset S of a partially ordered set P is called bounded if it has both an upper and a lower bound, or equivalently, if it is contained in an interval.
There were no moving parts: the ink reservoir within the barrel was open at the upper end, but contained a tightly rolled length of slotted, flexible plastic.
All books it contained were moved to the Canadian parliament in Montreal when the two Canadas, lower and upper, were united.
The upper 2. 7 m, the orbital module, contained guidance and on-board propulsion systems.
The " upper " nibble contained the 16 possible primary instruction codes, making it one of the very few commercialized minimal instruction set computers.
The invention of the transistor made possible cheaper electronic remotes that contained a piezoelectric crystal that was fed by an oscillating electric current at a frequency near or above the upper threshold of human hearing, though still audible to dogs.
The upper four bits contained the address, the id of one device on the chain, allowing for up to 16 devices on a single bus.
The Han-bō is traditionally taught independently of the other techniques, which are formally contained in what is called ' Sensudori ,' the upper echelon of the schools teachings ( Kaiden-gata ).
The upper section of the village contained larger villas, looking down over the more crowded village of fishing cottages.
The Star Chamber, which takes its name from the lead stars on its ceiling, leads off the Great Hall ; it and the solar above — a private upper room that would have contained a bed — are the oldest remaining parts of the hall.
The two upper corners contained star-like designs and the lower corners contained letters designating the position of the stamp in the printed sheet ; " A A " for the stamp at the top left, and " T L " for the bottom right.
The upper rounded terrace with rows of bell shaped stupas contained buddha images symbolizing Arupadhatu, the sphere of formlessness.
This wooden structure was replaced by a far more defensible stone castle during the reign of Henry II, and was imposing and of a complex architectural design, which eventually comprised an upper bailey at the highest point of the castle rock, a middle bailey to the north which contained the main royal apartments, and a large outer bailey to the east.
The lowest floor would have contained two three-lane carriageways for vehicles, with a layer of shops and a skating rink in the centre of the upper floors.
The ground floor of the Castle contained Holmes's own relocated drugstore and various shops, while the upper two floors contained his personal office and a maze of over 100 windowless rooms with doorways opening to brick walls, oddly-angled hallways, stairways to nowhere, doors openable only from the outside, and a host of other strange and labyrinthine constructions.
North of the Danube, the dava-zone is largely consistent with Ptolemy's definition of Dacia's borders ( III. 8. 1 – 3 ) i. e. the area contained by the river Ister ( Danube ) to the south, the river Thibiscum ( Timiş ) to the west, the upper river Tyras ( Dniester ) to the north and the river Hierasus ( Siret ) to the east.
SA-2's dummy upper stages contained approximately of water, or, used to simulate the mass of future payloads.
At such a saddle location, the upper portion of the lake is contained only by its adjacent natural volcanic dam ; continued leakage through or surface outflow across the dam can erode its included material, thus lowering lake level until a new equilibrium of water flow, erosion and rock resistance is established.
The upper class is generally contained within the wealthiest 1-2 % of the population, and is distinguished by immense wealth ( in the form of estates ) which is passed from generation to generation.
Its upper reach is contained within Mount Rainier National Park.
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Locating the lowercase letters in columns 6 and 7 caused the characters to differ in bit pattern from the upper case by a single bit, which simplified case-insensitive character matching and the construction of keyboards and printers.
Law schools typically offer either a single upper level course on business organizations, or offer several courses covering different aspects of this area of law.
Manufacturers usually design the upper vessel and the lower pot as a set, a single lid fitting both.
In the definition adopted by the British Admiralty, they were rated ships of at least 28 guns, carrying their principal armament upon a single continuous deck — the upper deck, while ships-of-the-line possessed two or more continuous decks bearing batteries of guns.
The term " frigate " was used because such ships still mounted their principal armament on a single continuous upper deck.
These ships were square-rigged and carried all their main guns on a single continuous upper deck.
If the symbol width is n, the codes of width n + 1 fall naturally into two blocks: the lower block of 2 < sup > n </ sup > codes for coding single symbols, and the upper block of 2 < sup > n </ sup > codes that will be used by the decoder for sequences of length greater than one.
In later Baroque lutes two upper courses are single.
The Province of Ontario has different tiers of municipalities, including lower, upper, and single tiers.
In the upper corner of the joystick was a single ' Action ' button, silver on the original controllers and red on the black controllers.
The competing forces of gravity, which is stronger at the lower end, and the outward / upward centrifugal force, which is stronger at the upper end, would result in the cable being held up, under tension, and stationary over a single position on Earth.
; Bicornuate: The upper parts of the uterus remain separate, but the lower parts are fused into a single structure.
The state of gain medium can be characterized with a single parameter, such as population of the upper level, gain or absorption.
Outcomes of shockwave lithotripsy for upper urinary-tract stones: a large-scale study at a single institution.
Both provide part of the lift, although they are not able to produce twice as much lift as a single wing of similar size and shape because the upper and the lower are working on nearly the same portion of the atmosphere.
In the original VHS format, audio was recorded as baseband in a single linear track, at the upper edge of the tape, similar to how an audio compact cassette operates.
Usually, males have a single long tusk, the canine on the left side of the upper jaw.
The most conspicuous characteristic of the male narwhal is its single extremely long tusk, a canine tooth that projects from the left side of the upper jaw and forms a left-handed helix.
Average July high temperatures reach the mid and upper 80s F although temperatures above 90 F are common, while lows are typically in the 60s F. January high temperatures typically reach the low and mid 30s F, while lows generally bottom out in the 10s F, although lows in the single digits and even below 0 F are common.
Geranium flowers have five very similar petals, and are thus radially symmetrical ( actinomorphic ), whereas pelargonium flowers have two upper petals which are different from the three lower petals, so the flowers have a single plane of symmetry ( zygomorphic ).
Each gonad has a single duct rising from the upper pole to open at a gonopore lying in one of the genital plates surrounding the anus.
Herbert Bayer's 1925 experimental Bayer Architype | universal typeface combined upper and lowercase characters into a single character set.
The most significant model submitted was a man-portable device, consisting of a vertical single cylinder 4 feet ( 1. 2 m ) long, horizontally divided in two, with pressurized gas in the lower section and flammable oil in the upper section.
An impressive example is the sixteenth-century Van Brederode double-decker monument at Vianen near Utrecht, which depicts Reynoud van Brederode ( d. 1556 ) and his wife Philippote van der Marck ( d. 1537 ) as shrouded figures on the upper level, with below them a single verminous cadaver.
The upper stage is storable and restartable, powered by a single Aestus engine.
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