As an example, if one was trying to profit from a price discrepancy between IBM on the NYSE and IBM on the London Stock Exchange, they may purchase a large number of shares on the NYSE and find that they cannot simultaneously sell on the LSE.

When Liddell Hart was questioned about this in 1968, and the discrepancy between the English and German editions of Guderian's memoirs, " he gave a conveniently unhelpful though strictly truthful reply.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

The discrepancy in the partition functions of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles was known as far back as the 19th century, before the advent of quantum mechanics.

This discrepancy was corrected by the Gregorian reform, introduced in 1582.

Even before Neptune's discovery, some speculated that one planet alone was not enough to explain the discrepancy.

" The spelling discrepancy of the added ' y ' was later explained as a deus ex machina on the part of " The White " ( a force of good throughout King's Tower series ) to bring the total number of letters in her name to nineteen, a number prominent in King's series.

The speed discrepancy ( being about 3. 5 % slow ) was brought to Bruce Botnick's attention by a Brigham Young University professor, who noted that all the video and audio live performances of The Doors performing the song, the sheet music, and the statements of band members show the song in a key almost a half step higher than the stereo LP release.

It was believed that, with the great discrepancy between the emotions of the witnesses and those translating them, much of the impact was lost in interlingual rendition.

At Athens " in Plato's time ," notes Kenneth Dorter " there was a discrepancy in the list of the twelve chief gods, as to whether Hestia or Dionysus was included with the other eleven.

The issue was resolved in 1915 by Albert Einstein's new theory of general relativity, which accounted for the small discrepancy in Mercury's orbit.

The main reason for this livestock traffic was the large cost discrepancy between livestock in the midwest and at the end of the trail in California, Oregon, or Montana.

He believed that anomie is common when the surrounding society has undergone significant changes in its economic fortunes, whether for good or for worse and, more generally, when there is a significant discrepancy between the ideological theories and values commonly professed and what was actually achievable in everyday life.

A hearing was held over the time discrepancy, where a video replay proved Secretariat reached the wire before Canonero II, the then-current record holder.

In 1960, because of this discrepancy between fact and fiction, the part of the Mae Klong which passes under the famous bridge was renamed as the Khwae Yai ( Thai แควใหญ ่, English " big tributary ").

The accumulation of large amounts of PIXE data from other laboratories around the world in the ensuing decades was sufficient by 2008 to show that the Cahill figures for all elements in the inks of the map and its companion documents are at least a thousand times too small, so the discrepancy is due to their mistake.

The second discrepancy is that the author of 1 Esdras claims that it was “ Zerubbabel who spoke wise words before King Darius of Persia ” ( 1 Esd.

The discrepancy may come from a misinterpretation of what unit of measure was meant by a certain Greek term in Aristarchus ' text.

One way the comics writers explained this discrepancy was to present the characters as " real " cartoon characters who are employed by Disney as actors.

This was abandoned shortly after Nicaea, but the reason for the observed discrepancy was all but ignored ( the actual tropical year is not quite equal to the Julian year of 365¼ days, so the date of the equinox keeps creeping back in the Julian calendar ).

This discrepancy between town name and post office name led the residents to change both names to Sciota, after Sciota Township in which the town lies ( Sciota Township was named after the Scioto River in Ohio ).

There seems to have been an agreement made after Lombard moved to California, but some discrepancy exists as to how this matter was resolved when previous track patents were studied.

a large vessel of water placed in an elevated position ; to the bottom of this vessel was soldered a pipe of small diameter giving a thin jet of water, which we collected in a small glass during the time of each descent, whether for the whole length of the channel or for a part of its length ; the water thus collected was weighed, after each descent, on a very accurate balance ; the differences and ratios of these weights gave us the differences and ratios of the times, and this with such accuracy that although the operation was repeated many, many times, there was no appreciable discrepancy in the results.

For example, in the 1970s the term was applied to Nixon's own handling of the Vietnam War and subsequently to the discrepancy between evidence of Richard Nixon's complicity in the Watergate break-in and his repeated claims of innocence.

This apparent discrepancy grew over time as the measurements were repeated, suggesting that whatever was causing the anomaly was still acting on the spacecraft.

One perhaps apocryphal story tells of a banker who spot-checked a Wang calculator against a mortgage table and found a discrepancy.

Biblical scholars have instead simply proposed that the discrepancy in the enumeration of Leah's children is due to the list not originally having included Dinah, who was added by a later editor to introduce consistency with the story of the Rape of Dinah.

The discrepancy on whether Chieko was a foundling or stolen is part of the plot and is revealed later in the story.

" In this story, Wilson is not arrested, but this discrepancy is explained as an error due to Dr Watson.

To explain this discrepancy it is claimed that one of two things occurred: Either the container of Holy Anointing Oil miraculously multiplied when supply became low ( as did the cruise of oil mentioned in the story of Elijah and the widow woman or the oil that lasted for eight days without being consumed during the Jewish Chanukka ) or, following new oil was added to the old, thus continuing the original oil for all time.

Furthermore, there is a great discrepancy between the written and spoken forms of Mon, with a single pronunciation capable of having several multiple spellings.

Also, when Target launched the novelisation line, there was no inkling that ultimately more than 150 of the show's storylines would be adapted ; as a result, there are numerous continuity gaps between early Target books and the scripts and / or later published novelisations ; one example is Doctor Who and the Doomsday Weapon ( based upon Colony in Space ) which as written depicts Jo Grant's first adventure with the Doctor, even though the television series introduced her several serials earlier in Terror of the Autons ( which was novelised at a later date and ignored the discrepancy ).

There is also some discrepancy over who created the E keyed trumpet, as it is claimed that “ the Viennese court trumpeter, Anton Weidinger invented the keyed trumpet ” though elsewhere it is insisted that although “ the invention of the keyed trumpet has been ascribed to the Viennese, Anton Weidinger, who is said to have constructed it in 1801 ... the instrument itself is older than that, as Haydn's concerto was written five years earlier .”

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

It is the discrepancy between the actual attained achievement test score and the score that would be predicted by the I.Q..

The discrepancy is widely believed to be explained by transactions intended to launder money or evade taxes, smuggling and other visibility problems.

An individual crocheter begins work by producing a test swatch and compensating for any discrepancy by changing to a smaller or larger hook.

This event may be up to 16 minutes away from noon GMT ( a discrepancy calculated by the equation of time ).

Since the 1920s this discrepancy has been explained by the presence of isotopes ; the atomic mass of any isotope is very close to satisfying the whole number rule, with the mass defect caused by differing binding energies being significantly smaller.

Most grand unified theories ( GUTs ) explicitly break the baryon number symmetry, which would account for this discrepancy, typically invoking reactions mediated by very massive X bosons () or massive Higgs bosons ().

Eusebius gives some extracts from his letter to one Aristides, reconciling the apparent discrepancy between Matthew and Luke in the genealogy of Christ by a reference to the Jewish law of Levirate marriage, which compelled a man to marry the widow of his deceased brother, if the latter died without issue.

* 38 microseconds – discrepancy in GPS satellite time per day ( compensated by clock speed ) due to relativity

In general, losses are estimated from the discrepancy between energy produced ( as reported by power plants ) and energy sold to end customers ; the difference between what is produced and what is consumed constitute transmission and distribution losses, assuming no theft of utility occurs.

The Dutch were told Stapleton would be asked to explain the discrepancy between his assertion of having conquered the island, and the correspondence signed by him indicating a promise to return it, after which a decision would be made.

Rayleigh had noticed a discrepancy between the density of nitrogen made by chemical synthesis and nitrogen isolated from the air by removal of the other known components.

It is defined by the majority of mainstream economists as being an acceptable level of natural unemployment above 0 %, the discrepancy from 0 % being due to non-cyclical types of unemployment.

The distance between the zeros of this envelope is λ / 2, and the maxima of amplitude are also spaced by λ / 2 ; we thus obtain the same results as the geometrical approach, with a discrepancy of p / 2 which is the uncertainty linked to the reference that is considered: pattern 1 or pattern 2.

The discrepancy is due to carelessness in assessing the year, which is, with little trouble, validly interpretable ; having been ( as implied by some other entries here ) a remarkable scholar, his entire life has been ( by himself, therefore ) well-chronicled.