Another style was to truncate the last 3 digits and append K, essentially using K as a decimal prefix similar to SI, but always truncating to the next lower whole number instead of rounding to the nearest.

Capital costs can be reduced by elevating the tracks instead of burying them, but the large tracks needed present a major visual barrier, and the steel-wheels-on-steel-rails are very noisy rounding bends.

Sarah Michelle Gellar was originally scripted to return as Buffy Summers, but when she could not appear, it instead focused on rounding off the character of Cordelia.

Why the excess mortality rate for June 2005 to June 2006 is listed as 14. 2 instead of 14. 3 may be due to how rounding was done.

In tile work, or furniture such as counters or table tops, an edge or arris that has been eased by rounding instead of chamfering is called a bullnose.

After rounding the plaza, instead of entering the courtroom, guests continued on and entered Winkie's Tavern.

Resampling causes aliasing, both blurring low-frequency components and adding high-frequency noise, causing jaggies, while rounding off computations to fit in finite precision introduces quantization, causing banding ; if fixed by dither, this instead becomes noise.

He rejected monarchical titles, and instead called himself Princeps Civitatis (" First Citizen ").

Dee's journals did not describe the language as " Enochian ", instead preferring " Angelical ", the " Celestial Speech ", the " Language of Angels ", the " First Language of God-Christ ", the " Holy Language ", or " Adamical " because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.

First was bubble green tea, which uses jasmine-infused green tea ( 茉香綠茶 ) instead of black tea.

The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause ( or instead, an Uncaused cause ) to the universe, and by extension is often used as an argument for the existence of an " unconditioned " or " supreme " being, usually then identified as God.

( Ezekiel also distinguishes between altar-priests and lower Levites, but in Ezekiel the altar-priests are called sons of Zadok instead of sons of Aaron ; many scholars see this as a remnant of struggles between different priestly factions in First Temple times, resolved by the Second Temple into a hierarchy of Aaronite altar-priests and lower-level Levites, including singers, gatekeepers and the like ).

IBM however refused and instead went with an " IBM First " strategy of promoting OS / 2 Warp and disparaging Windows, as IBM aimed to drive sales of its own software as well as hardware.

Allen ( 1971 ) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these ( and were against divination ) and had instead a message to deliver.

First, instead of initially crawling as infants on their knees, they started off learning to move around with a “ bear crawl ” on their feet.

First, fuel should be burned in a small combustion chamber, instead of building the entire propellant container to withstand the high pressures.

First Contact is the first film in the Star Trek film series in which none of the Star Trek: The Original Series main characters appear, instead, the main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation fill the main roles.

Its MPs refused to take their seats at Westminster, instead choosing to sit in the First Dáil parliament in Dublin.

First, instead of playing a completely fictional character, players were encouraged to start the character-creation process with a version of themselves ( presumably as the superhero's " secret identity.

Unlike the First Book of Nephi, this book contains a less secular history of the Nephite people, but instead discusses visions and prophecies of Nephi himself and other ancient prophets, such as Isaiah.

First, instead of many high energy ions hitting one another, the ion energy spread out into a bell curve.

Livingstone hoped to go to China as a missionary, but the First Opium War broke out in September 1839 and the LMS suggested the West Indies instead.

The so-called New Laws are similar to Asimov's originals with the following differences: the First Law is modified to remove the " inaction " clause, the same modification made in " Little Lost Robot "; the Second Law is modified to require cooperation instead of obedience ; the Third Law is modified so it is no longer superseded by the Second ( i. e., a " New Law " robot cannot be ordered to destroy itself ); finally, Allen adds a Fourth Law which instructs the robot to do " whatever it likes " so long as this does not conflict with the first three laws.

If the First Army turned to the southwest instead of advancing directly westward toward Königsberg, they would appear on the Eighth Army's extreme left flank, allowing for either a counterattack against the Eighth, or alternately turn north toward Königsberg from the undefended south.

Nestorius sought to defend himself at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, but instead he found himself formally condemned for heresy by a majority of the bishops and subsequently removed from his see.

Other leaders, most prominently Alexander I of Russia, debated that in case of a second victory over the French Empire, the First Prince of the Blood Louis Philippe d ' Orléans should be proclaimed king instead of Louis XVIII.

First, Shakespeare errs in putting Padua in Lombardy instead of Veneto, probably because he used Abraham Ortelius's map of Italy in the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum ( 4th ed., 1591 ) as a source, which has " Lombardy " written across the entirety of northern Italy.

The First Triumvirate ( 1811 – 1812 ), influenced by Bernardino Rivadavia and Manuel García, instead promoted unrestricted trade with Britain.

Dee's journals did not describe the language as " Enochian ", instead preferring descriptors like " Angelical ", the " Celestial Speech ", the " Language of Angels ", the " First Language of God-Christ ", the " Holy Language ", or " Adamical " because, according to Dee's Angels, it was used by Adam in Paradise to name all things.

* The comic strip Get Fuzzy did a variation that used a telephone switch board instead of bases (" Hu's on First ")

That plan did not work, instead Mr. Fuller was ousted and only Mr. Ray was the remaining Family First candidate to obtain a seat.

He was intended, by the King and Queen, for the office of Lord High Admiral, and, in 1740, he sailed, as a volunteer, in the fleet under the command of Sir John Norris, but he quickly became dissatisfied with the Navy, and, instead secured the post of colonel of the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 20 February 1741.

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For example, in 1869, the U. S. Post Office broke from its tradition of depicting presidents or other famous historical figures on the face of postage and instead used other subjects, for example, a train or a horse.

Had the route been charted, they should have sailed around the peninsula and made port on its eastern coast ; instead, they landed on the west and made a gruelling trip from the settlement of Bolsheretsk in the South-West, north to the Upper Kamchatka Post and then east along the Kamchatka River to the Lower Kamchatka Post.

During the Wilson presidency, The Post was credited with the " most famous newspaper typo " in D. C. history according to Reason magazine ; The Post intended to report that President Wilson had been " entertaining " his future-wife Mrs. Galt, but instead wrote that he had been " entering " Mrs. Galt.

Since necromancy is officially banned in Ankh-Morpork, he is instead the Head of the Department of Post Mortem Communications ( although he acknowledges this is just a fancy way of saying necromancy ).

It does not have its own U. S. Post Office or ZIP code, instead sharing the Bessemer ZIP code ( 35020 ).

According to a February 11, 2009, report in The Huffington Post about the Arbitration Fairness Act, Applebee's employees are barred from suing the company by a binding mandatory arbitration agreement, even if they repeatedly refuse to sign the agreement, and instead repeatedly write on the agreement that they cannot sign it when pressured to do so.

) Choosing an orange color for the 2 ¢ Grand Canyon tableau instead of the standard 2 ¢ carmine red, the Post Office departed from U. P. U. color-coding for the first time.

Post 1996 Vitesses were all " Sport " specification so the sport badge was dropped, also from 1996 the 2. 0L T16 engines used wasted spark ignition instead of distributor.

The collection also included one new song entitled " My Spine " which was originally slated to appear on Post but was pushed out by " Enjoy ", becoming the B-side to the UK " It's Oh So Quiet " single instead.

Post office boxes are usually mounted in a wall of the post office, either an external wall or a wall in a lobby, so that staff on the inside may deposit mail in a box, while a key holder ( some older post office boxes use a combination dial to open their box instead of a key ) in the lobby or on the outside of the building may open his or her box to retrieve the mail.

Street Addressing allows private shippers, such as United Parcel Service ( UPS ) or FedEx, to ship items to a modification of the actual street address of the Post Office where the PO Box is located ( instead of the regular PO Box address ).

Since 2004, many rural Canadian residents have been required to use community mail stations ( known as a Community Mail Box, or CMB ) instead of individual curbside mailboxes in an attempt to reduce health and safety complaints by Canada Post rural mail carriers.

World Journal Trib Conceived In High Hopes ; Lost Anyway, The Daytona Beach News-Journal During its short life, the paper never opened a Washington bureau, and did not have any foreign correspondents on its staff, relying instead on the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service for foreign coverage.

Then the publisher of the Post Searchlight in Bainbridge, Griffin at first indicated that he would repay Callaway, but he instead held firm for Maddox.

As the publisher of the Post Searchlight in Bainbridge, Griffin at first indicated that he would repay Callaway for the earlier support, but he instead held firm for Maddox.

Michael O ' Sullivan, in his review for the Washington Post, wrote, " What I'm not so fond of is the cop-out ultimately taken by the filmmakers, who can't seem to follow through on their promisingly metaphysical premise ( let alone the theme of obsessive love ), electing instead to eliminate all ambiguity ".

The Bachelor of Architecture course is now discontinued and instead a Post Graduate Diploma in Interior Design is offered.

In 1927 the British Crown granted a charter to its own non-commercial British Broadcasting Corporation and the General Post Office licensed that entity instead.

" Rita Kempley, in her review for the Washington Post, wrote, " Ron Howard still thinks women belong in the nursery instead of the newsroom.

In Warwick, US 1A used to stay on Post Road east of Route 117 instead of turning north to overlap it.

* Much like the books, the movie uses Latin quotes ( in this case “ Post equitem sedet atra cura ” and “ Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant !”) Note that Romans in " The place that send you mad " use a lot of Latin terms in their dialog-for example, they use " Cubiculum " instead of " Bedroom ".