All 8 Uses
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
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- The Yankees have a favorable chance to defeat any single team ....but the combined chances of defeating all teams in the league, including such factors as weather, accidents, and other variables for the season ahead, place the club on the short end of the odds I gave you.†
Chpt 6variables = things that are able to change
- I will say no more about minor variables as they are swallowed by major ones.†
Chpt 6
- Thus, holding other variables constant including Lunar and Terran populations, the present differential rate of export in tonnes could continue for seven point three six times ten to the twelfth years before using up one percent of Luna—round it as seven thousand billion years.†
Chpt 6
- The problem has an indeterminately large number of variables.†
Chpt 6
- The answer of seven years from now I reached by assuming the present situation, no change in Authority policy, and all major variables extrapolated from the empiricals implicit in their past behavior—a conservative answer of highest probability from available data.†
Chpt 6
- Toward end Mike was pointing out far more variables than Prof.†
Chpt 6
- To Mike, whole world was variable series of electrical pulses, sent or received or chasing around his innards.†
Chpt 14 *variable = able to changestandard suffix: The suffix "-able" in variable means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable. Note that when "-able" is placed at the end of a word that ends in "Y", the "Y" is often replaced with "I" as in enviable and deniable.
- The stator would stretch nearly horizontally, rising perhaps four kilometers in three hundred and in a straight line—almost straight, as Coriolis acceleration and other minor variables make it a gentle curve.†
Chpt 18variables = things that are able to change
Definitions:
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(1)
(variable) able to change, or something that is able to changeA variable in mathematics refers more specifically to a symbol that represents a value or a set of values.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)