Take the sentence:     Isn't there a bunch of laws around who can stay open until what time though based on location and # of residential buildings around the bar?   Bunch is singular, and the sentence is referring to a bunch of laws.  Another example, not using bunch:     Isn't there a collection of paintings?   That uses "Isn't" not "aren't"  Can you throw the prepositional phrase, and consider what comes directly after is irrelevant in terms of plurality?
In the following sentence:     The city is populated by many people.   "many" can be replaced by something like "a great number of" (let us leave the perceived differences between the meanings of these two modifiers out of discussion):     The city is populated by a great number of people.   I understand that this replacement does not change the object "populating the city" from the original "people" to a "number", but rather shows the ability of expressions in the form "[numeral] of" to provide information about the quantity of nouns they modify.  Is this ability due to some special qualities of nouns such as "number", "quantity", "fraction", &amp;c., or is it just one usage of the preposition "of"?
MiKTeX: Two things did not succeed I installed a new hard drive on my computer this summer and I'm trying to install MiKTeX on it now. There were no problems when I was using my old hard drive. My OS is Windows 8.1. I'm trying to compile the following very basic file with pdfLaTeX:  \documentclass{article} \begin{document}   hi   \end{document}   Here's the first error I get:  Sorry, but "MiKTeX Configuration Utility" did not succeed.     The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:   C:/Users/Tyler/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/initexmf.log  You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page (http://miktex.org), if you need help.   With the following errors in the log:  2015-09-03 22:23:51,625-0400 INFO  initexmf - starting: MiKTeX Configuration Utility 2.9.5700 (MiKTeX 2.9 64-bit)    2015-09-03 22:23:51,631-0400 FATAL initexmf - Windows API error 32: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process. 2015-09-03 22:23:51,631-0400 FATAL initexmf - Info: C:\Users\Tyler\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9\miktex/data/le\1e0c0e04cb3be262fbb8e6e7ace14b67.fndb 2015-09-03 22:23:51,631-0400 FATAL initexmf - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\win\winFile.cpp 2015-09-03 22:23:51,631-0400 FATAL initexmf - Line: 520   The second error:  Sorry, but C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\miktex-pdftex.exe did not succeed. The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:   C:/Users/Tyler/AppData/Local/MiKTeX/2.9/miktex/log/miktex-pdftex.log  You may want to visit the MiKTeX project page (http://miktex.org), if you need help.   with the following errors in the log:  2015-09-03 22:16:18,715-0400 INFO  miktex-pdftex - running 'initexmf --quiet --update-fndb' to refresh the file name database 2015-09-03 22:16:18,746-0400 FATAL miktex-pdftex - The operation failed for some reason. 2015-09-03 22:16:18,746-0400 FATAL miktex-pdftex - Info: C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\initexmf.exe 2015-09-03 22:16:18,746-0400 FATAL miktex-pdftex - Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\Core\Process.cpp 2015-09-03 22:16:18,746-0400 FATAL miktex-pdftex - Line: 290   Things I've tried:   Uninstalling and reinstalling MiKTeX Downloading all packages whose name starts with miktex (which is a solution that worked for someone else in a different thread) Having nothing open but TeXworks when trying to compile Looking for processes that may be related to MiKTeX in the task manager (I didn't find any)   How can I stop these errors? I apologize if my formatting is bad; this is my first stackexchange question. Thank you for your help. I am seeking suggestions on what may be going in with an iMac I am currently troubleshooting, as it’s displaying behaviour I do not recall seeing before.  Short story  This iMac refuses to boot up. It gets the Apple logo, gets past the progress bar, and then gets stuck on the grey screen for about two minutes before rebooting itself. However, what makes this odd is that I can:   Start the iMac in Target Disk Mode and use it to successfully boot up other Macs. In doing so everything seems to work perfectly fine. Successfully boot the iMac from an external drive and everything seems to work perfectly fine.   Long story  I was presented this iMac about 2 weeks ago as it refused to bootup. That is, it would commence booting up and cycle through the Apple logo and progress bar, but after the progress bar completed it would remain on the grey screen for a couple of minutes before rebooting itself and doing the same thing all over again.   To address this I undertook the following troubleshooting steps:   Resetting SMC - failed Resetting NVRAM - failed Starting up in Safe Mode - failed Starting up in OS X Recovery Mode – failed Starting up in OS X Recovery Mode via the internet – failed Undertook an extensive hardware test using Apple Hardware Test (AHT 3A213) - passed Started iMac in Target Disk Mode and retested hard drive using Scannerz on another iMac - passed Started iMac in Target Disk Mode and reformatted the hard drive and did a clean install of Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 - successful Migrated data from a Time Machine backup - successful   After these steps I tested the iMac for four days with no issues in terms of booting up and using the computer. On the fifth day I needed to manually import seven Apple Mail mailboxes. I did these one by one and six of them imported within minutes.  The last mailbox was showing as being 270 GB in size. I knew this was inaccurate, but I decided to import the mailbox so I could do a mailbox rebuild to correct whatever corruption had taken place. This import took over 12hrs to do but seemed to work fine and Mail was displaying the emails.  I then tested the iMac on and off for another day to ensure it had no problems booting up. This was successful.  I then decided to initiate the mailbox rebuild, but as soon as I did the screen went black and stayed that way regardless of any keyboard shortcuts I tried using. I waited an hour, forced a reboot, and ever since the iMac has returned to its original behaviour of not booting up – it would get past the progress bar and stay on the grey screen for a while before rebooting itself and starting the whole vicious cycle again.  I have again retested the hard drive, processor, RAM and Video Ram by starting the iMac from an external hard drive and using a combination of the following packages:   Apple Hardware Test (AHT 3A213) Scannerz TechTool Pro Memtester (under the Homebrew subsystem)   And now I have a situation where I can boot the iMac from external hard drives, and also use it in target disk mode to boot up other Macs, but cannot use it to boot from its own internal drive.  At present I have isolated the internal hard drive and am running a scan to check for any malware.   In the meantime, I am wondering:   Has anyone come across a similar scenario and, if so, what was the cause? Assuming I find no malware, do I go through the reformat/clean install/migration process again, but this time not import the last mailbox and see whether the iMac works fine? Any other suggestions?   iMac specs are as follows:   iMac (27”, mid 2011) 3.1 GHz Intel Core i5 8 GB RAM AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB 1 TB 3.5” SATA HD Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 What is an intuitive explanation of the Hopf fibration and the twisted Hopf fibration? As the question suggests, what is an intuitive explanation of the Hopf fibration and the twisted Hopf fibration? Many thanks in advance. Is there an option to output a manual page in a different language? I don't want to change the computer language completely, but only specific manual pages. For example  $ man -English man Man is a manual program … $ man -Russian man Инструцтия для Unix, BSD и Linux. … How can I get more of this macro photo in focus? Why are downloads destructive in the Star Trek universe? There are numerous places in various Star Trek episodes where references are made to the fact that "downloads" are a destructive operation: you download something from one place, and unless you explicitly made a copy beforehand, what you downloaded is gone from its original storage location and instead appears in some other location. Hence was born the term "copy and download".  There are of course out-of-universe, plot reasons for things happening that way which are exploited from time to time. There is also the out-of-universe explanation of how large media companies feel about people downloading copyrighted works, and a possible out-of-universe explanation that at the time, people in general may not have been intimitely familiar with the implications of the term "download", so they added "copy" to help describe what happens to at least portions of their viewership.  But is there a plausible in-universe explanation for why downloads would be destructive by default, and a specific copying operation would have to be made beforehand so as to not delete the data from its original location?  As for specific examples, these are two that I can think of right now (I'm quite sure there are more):   VOY "Twisted" (S2E06), right near the end, stated by Torres: "Our entire database has been copied and downloaded into somebody else's system." VOY "Message In A Bottle" (S4E14), a little more than five minutes into the episode, the EMH is "downloaded into the transceiver array" for transmission across an alien sensor network to the Prometheus when the latter is in the alpha quadrant, and some 20 minutes into the episode it's established that the EMH is not available in the sickbay and will return later. Baked beans still firm after soaking and hours of cooking Yes, it's time for me to complain about plagiarism again.  We already have Suggested Edit audits, but I would like to see Tag Wiki and Tag Wiki Excerpt audits that specifically introduce copied content for that tag without including the appropriate source(s), and warn people who approve it that they just approved a tag with plagiarized text.  For example, an audit for the  tag could be:     Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database, it is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network (including the Internet). There are at least a dozen different editions of Microsoft SQL Server aimed at different audiences and for different workloads (ranging from small applications that store and retrieve data on the same computer, to millions of users and computers that access huge amounts of data from the Internet at the same time). Its primary query languages are T-SQL and ANSI SQL.   Anyone who spends 15 seconds Googling this will see where it came from -- the problem is, most people don't.  I know with Suggested Edit Audits, it's just random text to catch the most egregious reviewers; for this, you would have to most likely select a small sample of tags, and then create their copy-and-paste entries for audits.    The whole point of this would be to raise awareness for people who have figured out how to recognize and pass Suggested Edit audits, but still don't understand the finer nuances of reviewing. Emacs: Symbol's value as variable is void When can I use a forward declaration? I am looking for the definition of when I am allowed to do forward declaration of a class in another class's header file:  Am I allowed to do it for a base class, for a class held as a member, for a class passed to member function by reference, etc. ? ravel: opposite meanings? Browsing folders with more than 100000 images Would someone explain wheel sizes.  If I am not mistaken, the wheels on my Trek 520 touring bike are 700C. There are no markings, and of course, no documentation of any kind. I assume 700 means 700mm, so 700 / 25.4 = 27.56 inches.  If I measure the rim however, its diameter is approximately 25.1 inches.  If I buy Continental tires, the size is 28 inch, but I have to buy 27 inch Bontrager tubes.  To make matters worse, per this link, tires come in sizes of 26, 27, and 28 inch, and size 700.     How can I determine my wheel size, and are these various sizes interchangable. Also, is the 'C' suffix important, and what does it mean?  Of course the tires are marked, but I am under the impression (per the dealers comments) that Continental marks their tires differently than everyone else. Also, the tire markings don't help for ordering a new wheel.   With so many tire sizes available, how can I know if I am using the correct size.  After reading the various answers here, I should explain that my confusion on this matter stemmed from the fact that I used to work as an auto mechanic. In the auto industry, car tires are based on wheel size, 13", 14", 15" etc, and there is no possible way to mount a 15" tire on a 13" rim for example.  So when I saw all these different tire sizes, I assumed they all required a different wheel size, but in fact, there is essentially just one wheel diameter for my type of bike, which they refer to as 700C, which is actually 622mm.   I also initially assumed that the C referred to the wheel's width, but that isn't true either. The C is apparently just antiquated terminology.  So at least in theory, I can mount a 26", 27" 28" or 29" tire on my 700C (622mm) rim. I just need to verify the width of the tire is suitable my wheel width, which is what Sheldon Brown's article explains.  Also, I measured my Continental tires, which are marked as 28 inch. They actually measure 27 inches (fully inflated), which must be why my dealer calls their sizing non standard. How do I calculate $\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} x\ln x$ I was thinking about the reasons behind $0^0=1$ and I remember one of my friends studying math arguing about the continuity of the function $x^x$ in $0$. But when I write as $$x^x=e^{x\ln x}$$ I am now looking at $$\lim_{x\rightarrow 0} x\ln x$$ Graphically I can see in Mathematica that it goes to $0.$ But I can't calculate by using a Taylor expansion, because I can't expand log around $0$. How do you prove that? How do I remap multi-key sequences to individual keys? I just bought an IBM Model M keyboard. While awesome, it lacks a windows key and multimedia keys. While there are many programs out there that can map one key to another, or one key to a key sequence, are there any programs that will map a keyboard sequence to a single key?  Edit: OS = Win7 Is C++ CLI a superset of C++? Would a C++  compiler be able to compile some large sets of C++ classes without modifications?   Is C++ CLI a superset of C++? My printer does not print light magenta. (Canon MP220 - CL-38) I have a Canon MP 220, with new cartridges. Prints fine everything, but it won't print light magenta. I cleaned it and deep cleaned it many times. I have no idea what could be the problem. Cartridge models: CL-38 and PG-37.  Any ideas ?  LE: Now it won't print magenta at all! I have the value 25.00 in a float, but when I print it on screen it is 25.0000000. How can I display the value with only two decimal places? Is it a scam if the person only wants to deposit into my account, not make a withdrawal? How can I search for one label but not another? What search query will return conversations that have the label Reading but not the label Ignore?  I've tried using label:reading -label:ignore but Gmail still returns conversations that have the label Ignore:    The query label:(reading -ignore) gives me the same results.