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In mathematics, the pigeonhole principle states that if n items are put into m containers, with n > m, then at least one container must contain more than one item. [1] For example, of three gloves, at least two must be right-handed or at least two must be left-handed, because there are three objects but only two categories of handedness to put ...
The following are not rules of English, no matter what someone may tell you. (Or, as Shakespeare might have put it: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your seventh-grade English teacher's handouts.) "A paragraph should have at least/no more than X sentences." (Nonsense.)
The notation a ≥ b or a ⩾ b or a ≧ b means that a is greater than or equal to b (or, equivalently, at least b, or not less than b). In the 17th and 18th centuries, personal notations or typewriting signs were used to signal inequalities. [ 2 ]
If the preordered set (,) also happens to be a partially ordered set (or more generally, if the restriction (,) is a partially ordered set) then is a maximal element of if and only if contains no element strictly greater than ; explicitly, this means that there does not exist any element such that and .
Assuming no income is negative, Markov's inequality shows that no more than 10% (1/10) of the population can have more than 10 times the average income. [ 6 ] Another simple example is as follows: Andrew makes 4 mistakes on average on his Statistics course tests.
This could leave you owing more than your home's true value if property prices decline. ... For example, if your home is worth $400,000 and your mortgage balance is $200,000, you have $200,000 in ...
Trump offered a far less charitable view of Carter when he was alive. For years, Trump, a Republican, has mocked the one-term, Democratic commander-in-chief as the nation’s worst president.
A majority is more than half of a total. [1] It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. For example, if a group consists of 31 individuals, a majority would be 16 or more individuals, while having 15 or fewer individuals would not constitute a majority.