From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Secretary of War Baker, blindfolded, put his hand into a large glass bowl and drew the initial number of those to be called.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

This apparatus will also be used to measure transition probabilities of a large number of other elements.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

No matter how they are formulated, a large number of organic actives are simply not suitable for this application, since they do not give adequate soil removal.

Let us assume that it would be possible for an enemy to create an aerosol of the causative agent of epidemic typhus ( Rickettsia prowazwki ) over City A and that a large number of cases of typhus fever resulted therefrom.

Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

The major training need of a new industrial plant is a short period of pre-employment training for a large number of semi-skilled machine operators.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

Although a large number of coatings systems, particularly at low thicknesses fail cohesively by the cutting mechanism, frequently a second type of cohesive failure may also take place.

When covalent bonds link long chains of atoms in large molecules, however ( as in polymers such as nylon ), or when covalent bonds extend in networks though solids that are not composed of discrete molecules ( such as diamond or quartz or the silicate minerals in many types of rock ) then the structures that result may be both strong and tough, at least in the direction oriented correctly with networks of covalent bonds.

The energy bands each correspond to a large number of discrete quantum states of the electrons, and most of the states with low energy ( closer to the nucleus ) are occupied, up to a particular band called the valence band.

SIMSCRIPT is an application specific Fortran preprocessor for modeling and simulating large discrete systems.

The integration of large numbers of tiny transistors into a small chip was an enormous improvement over the manual assembly of circuits using discrete electronic components.

This definition often breaks down since many substances in ordinary experience, such as rocks, salts, and metals, are composed of large networks of chemically bonded atoms or ions, but are not made of discrete molecules.

This smooth distribution of molecular gas is averaged out over large distances ; however, the small scale distribution of the gas is highly irregular with most of it concentrated in discrete clouds and cloud complexes.

Some encryption schemes can be proven secure on the basis of the presumed difficulty of a mathematical problem, such as factoring the product of two large primes or computing discrete logarithms.

Quantization is the procedure of constraining something from a relatively large or continuous set of values ( such as the real numbers ) to a relatively small discrete set ( such as the integers ).

The energy bands each correspond to a large number of discrete quantum states of the electrons, and most of the states with low energy ( closer to the nucleus ) are occupied, up to a particular band called the valence band.

* have products if it has limits of type J for every small discrete category J ( it need not have large products ),

Iguazu is wider, but because it is split into about 275 discrete falls and large islands, Victoria is the largest curtain of water in the world, at over wide and over in height ( in low flow Victoria is split into five by islands ; in high flow it can be uninterrupted ).

BJTs can be found either as individual discrete components, or in large numbers as parts of integrated circuits.

The clock tower featured large astronomical instruments of the armillary sphere and celestial globe, both driven by an early intermittently working escapement mechanism ( roughly two centuries before the discrete verge escapement of true mechanical clocks appeared in medieval clockworks ).

In its large continental Eurasian range, Robins vary somewhat, but do not form discrete populations that might be considered subspecies.

For discrete time, where payments are separated by large time periods, the transform reduces to a sum, but when payments are ongoing on an almost continual basis, the mathematics of continuous functions can be used as an approximation.

A discrete element method ( DEM ), also called a distinct element method is any of family of numerical methods for computing the motion and effect of a large number of small particles.

BPH involves hyperplasia of prostatic stromal and epithelial cells, resulting in the formation of large, fairly discrete nodules in the periurethral region of the prostate.

( 2006 ), " On the correlation matrix of the discrete Fourier transform and the fast solution of large Toeplitz systems for long-memory time series ", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 101: 812 – 822.

" In particular, one restricts attention to the vortex dynamics, which presumes that the vorticity field can be modeled well in terms of discrete vortices ( which encompasses a large number of interesting and relevant flows ).

This technique is the basis of efficient algorithms for all kinds of problems, such as sorting ( e. g., quicksort, merge sort ), multiplying large numbers ( e. g. Karatsuba ), syntactic analysis ( e. g., top-down parsers ), and computing the discrete Fourier transform ( FFTs ).

Prototype of the MEGA II chip was a large board containing mostly discrete logic parts called " El Grande ".

Further application of centrifugation showed that under different conditions the large homogenous particles could be broken down into discrete subunits.

* Discrete element method or discrete element modeling, a family of numerical methods for computing the motion of a large number of small particles ( like molecules or grains of sand )

Using a wavelet transform with Haar basis functions, the Gibbs phenomenon does not occur in the case of continuous data at jump discontinuities, and is minimal in the discrete case at large change points.