When three dice are tossed repeatedly, what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1, or 2, or 3 )??

When each number of successes X is paired with its probability of occurrence Af, the set of pairs Af, is a probability function called a binomial distribution.

When the daily number of deaths jumps to 30, the town is sealed and an outbreak of plague is officially declared.

When the volume of an alcoholic drink is shown in centilitres, determining the number of units in a drink is as simple as < var > volume </ var > × < var > percentage </ var > ( converted into a fraction of 1 ).

When the newly-christened AppleTalk shipped in early 1985, it included a number of compromises.

When the total number of mandates gained by a party has been determined, they are distributed between the Land lists.

When a battleground is the site of more than one battle in the same conflict, the instances are distinguished by ordinal number, such as the First and Second Battles of Bull Run.

When the UK Channel 4 television program " The Bermuda Triangle " ( c. 1992 ) was being produced by John Simmons of Geofilms for the Equinox series, the marine insurance market Lloyd's of London was asked if an unusually large number of ships had sunk in the Bermuda Triangle area.

When harvesting, the needed number of stalks should be cut to the base.

When collecting coins by year, this multiplies the number of specimens needed to complete a collection.

When Chiang was defeated by CPC forces in mainland China in 1949, he retreated to Taiwan with his government and his most disciplined troops, along with most of the KMT leadership and a large number of their supporters ; Chiang Kai-shek had taken effective control of Taiwan at the end of WWII as part of the overall Japanese surrender, when Japanese troops in Taiwan surrendered to Republic of China troops.

However, the story is not yet quite finished: " When the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.

When the condition number is exactly one, then the algorithm may find an approximation of the solution with an arbitrary precision.

When compared with Zebu bulls, Canchim bulls produce the same number of calves, but heavier and of superior quality.

When an order has been defined in this way, a sorting algorithm can be used to put a list of any number of items into that order.

When appropriate, the second line may begin with a ' form ' number — e. g., 1 stands for history and criticism of a subject, 2 for a bibliography, 5 for a dictionary, 6 for an atlas or maps, 7 for a periodical, 8 for a society or university publication, 9 for a collection of works by different authors.

:* When is entered, it is picked up by the scanning unit, the number 25 is encoded and sent to the X register.

* Granularity: When a continuously variable analog value is represented in digital form there is always a decision as to the number of symbols to be assigned to that value.

When the two waves are in phase, i. e. the path difference is equal to an integral number of wavelengths, the summed amplitude, and therefore the summed intensity is maximum, and when they are in anti-phase, i. e. the path difference is equal to half a wavelength, one and a half wavelengths, etc., then the two waves cancel and the summed intensity is zero.

She also returned to number one on the country charts later in 2005 by lending her distinctive harmonies to the Brad Paisley ballad, " When I Get Where I'm Goin '".

When that research was repeated in 2007, the number of senior management posts held by women had fallen to 22 %.

When his preaching companions heard of his death, all save Dominic and a very small number of others returned to their homes.

When a number of officers in George's unit are killed, he is promoted.

When Aldington first published his novel, he redacted a number of passages in order to ensure the publication of his book would not be challenged.

When the hunt is over, prizes may be given for the largest number of eggs collected, or for the largest or the smallest egg.

When the Know-nothings get control, it will read, All men are created equal except Negroes and foreigners and Catholics.

When he finally got the coughing under control, he realized that Pete ( all he gave was his first name ) was still waiting for an answer -- he didn't even seem to wink as he continued to stare.

When infants are taught to sign, parents are able to converse with them at a developmental stage when they are not yet capable of producing vocal speech, which requires fine control of both breathing and the vocal tract.

When the Jacobin faction seized control of the Revolutionary government in 1792, Jean-Jacques Ampère resisted the new political tides, and he was guillotined on November 24, 1793, as part of the Jacobin purges of the period.

When his district was redrawn by the Whigs, that party had won the past two gubernatorial elections, in addition to gaining control of the legislature.

When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.

When problems with poor control at high speed were first encountered, they were addressed by designing a new style of control surface with more power.

When Heureux and Mercure had cut their anchor cables to escape the exploding Orient, their crews had panicked and neither captain ( both of whom were wounded ) had managed to regain control of their ship.

When animators or interface designers talk about the " physics " or " feel " of an operation, they may be referring to the particular Bézier curve used to control the velocity over time of the move in question.

When the English finally regained control of New Netherland they forced, as a punishment unique in the history of the British Empire, the English common law upon all the colonists, including the Dutch.

When Havana surrendered, the admiral of the British fleet, George Keppel, the 3rd Earl of Albemarle, entered the city as a conquering new governor and took control of the whole western part of the island.

When informal relationships and sanctions prove insufficient to establish and maintain a desired social order, a government or a state may impose more formalized or stricter systems of social control.

When Azali took power he also pledged to step down in April 2000 and relinquish control to a democratically elected president — a pledge with mixed results.

When he suspected that the American Office of Strategic Services ( forerunner of the CIA ) was showing an interest in seizing control of Chiang's regime, Chiang ordered the plotters arrested and executed.

When a device is designed to perform without the need of human inputs for correction it is called automatic control ( such as cruise control for regulating a car's speed ).

When ice forms on the beds, trucks can be driven onto the ice to spread a thin layer of sand that helps to control pests and rejuvenate the vines.

When the appropriate conditions above are satisfied a system is said to be asymptotically stable: the variables of an asymptotically stable control system always decrease from their initial value and do not show permanent oscillations.

When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment .... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans.

When Dave Wesely entered the service in 1970, his friend and fellow Napoleonics wargamer Dave Arneson began a medieval variation of Wesely's Braunstein games, where players control individuals instead of armies.

When he encountered opposition from the services, he used government control of military spending to force the change through, stating " Wherever Federal Funds are expended, I do not see now any American can justify a descrimination of those funds.

When Faubus balked, the president placed the Arkansas National Guard under federal control and sent in the 101st Airborne Division.

When the Democrats took control of the Senate in December 1845, they chose Atchison as President pro tempore, placing him third in succession for the Presidency, and also giving him the duty of presiding over the Senate when the Vice President was absent.