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She takes x as the width of the garden, in yards, and x+½ as its length, and makes her first “coil” the sum of x-½, x-½, x-1, x-1, i.e. 4x-3: but the fourth term should be x-1½, so that her first coil is ½ a yard too long.
A Tangled Tale 2003
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If Bush had only gotten x-1 votes, SCOTUS would take the case and the election would be in doubt.
How Super Will Super Tuesday Really Be? - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Why might the sun and moon have human faces on pages x-1 and elsewhere?
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From a Retreat in Inflation Back in high-school math class, a problem I hated was this: A bathtub is filling at x gallons per minute, but water is draining at an (x-1) rate.
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Why might the sun and moon have human faces on pages x-1 and elsewhere?
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And if you then average the daily temperatures to get an annual mean, its irrelevant if the temperature recorded on day x actually occured on day x-1 except of course for day 1.
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I also see that my numbers were wrong. x.6 through x.9 will actually get recorded as x+2 in ten cases I think, balancing the x-1 data recorded values.
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The general term of this is, ux = (x (x-1) (x-2))/(1 X 2 X 3) + the whole number in x/10 +
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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The Area has two wells that were drilled in the early 1990's: St. CMo. x-1 Coronel Moldes in 1990, and St. LT.
unknown title 2011
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A random walk is a function such that the increment, "f (x) - f (x-1)", is a random variable distributed symmetrically around zero.
The Reference Frame Lumo 2010
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