When assured by Mersenne that it was, indeed, the product of the son not the father, Descartes dismissed it with a sniff: " I do not find it strange that he has offered demonstrations about conics more appropriate than those of the ancients ," adding, " but other matters related to this subject can be proposed that would scarcely occur to a sixteen-year-old child.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

When Louise goes below deck momentarily, a large, strange cloud on the horizon passes over the craft, leaving a reflective mist on Scott's bare skin.

When Jim comes home, he looks at Della with a strange expression.

When Grimm's law was discovered, a strange irregularity was spotted in its operation.

When it was first presented by Joseph Banks to English naturalists it was thought to be so strange that it was a cleverly created hoax.

When he travels to college campuses, audiences dislike his strange sense of humor and simply want to see his more famous TV characters, so he deliberately antagonizes them by reading The Great Gatsby aloud from start to finish.

Dodds described his impressions of New York as a place where people listened to jazz rather than danced to it: " When I first went to New York it seemed very strange to have people sitting around and listening rather than dancing.

When she was released at the end of seven years, the young woman was endowed with a strange power: the ability to recognise the Drac with one of her eyes.

When he picked up his own household phone his assistant had to explain what the strange noise was, as well as how to use a rotary dial phone.

When Metellus Celer died in strange circumstances in 59 BC, Clodia was suspected of poisoning her husband.

When these sets ( or the motions on them ), are harder to describe than the classical geometric objects, then the attractor is a strange attractor, as described in the section below.

When she came to write her works on marriage and birth control, it was not strange that they were infused with eugenics theories.

When Connecticut authorities later appealed to Andros for assistance, Andros replied that it was " strange " that they would do so, considering their previous behavior, and refused to help.

When questioned about Ridgway after his arrest, friends and family described him as friendly but strange.

When the girl arrives, she notices that her grandmother looks very strange.

When a strange horse comes upon the scene, when a horse catches the scent of a predator, or when a horse scents a potential mate, the attention of the horse is naturally aroused and its body prepares for action.

When I was the first time put to the torture, Dr. Braun, Dr. Kotzendorffer, and two strange doctors were there.

When the annihilating proton and antiproton are at rest relative to one another, these newly created pairs may be composed of up, down or strange quarks.

When Lara drops the Orb into the hole that opens the entrance to the Cradle of Life, the Guardians fall to pieces and both Lara and Reiss are drawn into the Cradle of Life, a labyrinthine cavern made of some strange crystalline substance, racked by bolts of energy.

When the corrupted memory contents are used later in that program, it leads either to program crash or to strange and bizarre program behavior.

“ Among the other Curiosities of New-England, one is that of a mighty Rock, on a perpendicular side whereof by a River, which at High Tide covers part of it, there are very deeply Engraved, no man alive knows How or When about half a score Lines, near Ten Foot Long, and a foot and half broad, filled with strange Characters: which would suggest as odd Thoughts about them that were here before us, as there are odd Shapes in that Elaborate Monument .…”

When the monastic Elders living in the desert heard about Simeon, who had chosen a new and strange form of asceticism, they wanted to test him to determine whether his extreme feats were founded in humility or pride.

When he asks about it, the pub becomes very quiet and the pubgoers start acting very strange and hostile.

When our eyes met the air was filled with an unuttered message of `` Me, too ''.

When the alert is triggered, a message is sent to a caregiver or contact center who can respond appropriately.

:* When is pressed, a " message " from the flag register tells the permanent memory that the operation to be done is " addition ".

When a DHCP server receives an IP lease request from a client, it reserves an IP address for the client and extends an IP lease offer by sending a DHCPOFFER message to the client.

When other DHCP servers receive this message, they withdraw any offers that they might have made to the client and return the offered address to the pool of available addresses.

When the DHCP server receives the DHCPREQUEST message from the client, the configuration process enters its final phase.

When traffic deltas are low, a single call establishment message will have access to the full 64Kbs ( allowing for overheads ).

When using IMAP4, clients often stay connected as long as the user interface is active and download message content on demand.

When the besiegers deliver a note to yield up the captives, their Norman captors retort with a message for a priest to administer the Final Sacrament to the captives.

" When the conservative web site the Drudge Report published this message, many Bush supporters viewed it as " smoking gun " evidence that Halperin was using ABC to propagandize against Bush to Kerry's benefit, by interfering with reporters ' attempts to avoid bias.

When referenced in the form of a Web URI, content IDs and message IDs are placed within the URI schemes cid and mid respectively, without the angle brackets:

When viewing a message with a non-English email client, the header names are usually translated by the client.

When a recipient mailbox of a message is not hosted locally, the message is relayed, that is, forwarded to another MTA.

In the statement Baba proclaimed himself " one with the infinite source of everything ," and declared his intention to break his silence: " When I speak, my original message will be delivered to the world and it will have to be accepted ".

When a user posts to one news server, the message is stored locally.

When Bob receives the box, he uses an identical copy of Alice's key ( which he has somehow obtained previously, maybe by a face-to-face meeting ) to open the box, and reads the message.

When Alice receives it she uses it to lock a box containing her message, and sends the locked box to Bob.

When routing a message from a source in A < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > London network to a destination in B < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > New York network, A may choose to immediately send the message to B in London.

When another task wants to interrogate or manipulate the resource, it sends a message to the managing task.

When an object is sent a message that it does not implement, the virtual machine sends the object the message with a reification of the message as an argument.

When the third protection level key scheme is used it affects the distribution of a message through the container ( see figure The Third Protection Level Scheme, where F ( P, L ) – distribution function of a message within a container ; P – minimum number of container samples that are needed to embed one message sample ; L – step of a message distribution within a container ).