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How to pronounce fractions with denominators larger than 20 where the last digit of the denominator is 1 or 2? eg 4/31 Disclaimer: I speak British English.  I've noticed a lot of differences between the way Americans and Brits pronounce numbers.1  Since the question concerns this, I thought it might be appropriate to draw attention to it case we inadvertently confuse each other.  My question is not about these differences, I just wish to highlight them in case they cause confusion.  1. You seem to happily call a quarter "a fourth" sometimes, we always call 131 "one hundred and thirty one", we pronounce double digits in phone numbers like 12449 as "one two double four nine", and I think we are much more likely to use expressions like "thirteen hundred" to mean 1300.    Question  When talking about fractions, I have frequently heard  1/2    a half 1/3    a third 1/4    a quarter 1/8    an eighth 1/64   a sixty fourth 1/56   a fifty sixth   etc.  Essentially the rule seems to be that, except for "a whole", "a half", and "a quarter", the word matches the ordinal number; that is to say:      Numeral       Ordinal         Fractional     one           first           whole     two           second          half     three         third           third     four          fourth          quarter     five          fifth           fifth     six           sixth           sixth     fifty-seven   fifty-seventh   fifty-seventh  Even though 1/4 is a quarter, 1/64 is a sixty-fourth.  So what’s 1/62?  A  sixty-twoth?  A sixty-second? Surely not a sixty-half!  I know that simply saying one over sixty-two can usually work, but I'm asking specifically for the word itself, i.e.  if I divide a huge pizza into 21 pieces, what are the pieces?  Other than baker’s twentieths.  Summary: Can anyone point me to any sources (whether style guides or common usage studies or anything else) that discuss the pronunciation of fractions; specifically one that discusses this separately from ordinal numbers, rather than how to form ordinal numbers in the first place. Which process scheduler is my linux system using? I'm not quite sure if stackoverflow or serverfault is the forum to use for this question, but ill try here.  Is there some command I can use or a file I can check in order to find out which process scheduler I'm using on my Linux system? I am not looking for the I/O scheduler, but the process scheduler, and please, do not refer to guides or howtos for what a scheduler is, what I'm simply asking is if there is a command or file I can run/check to see this. I could check the doc for my kernel but again I'm just wondering if there is a command or file i can check.  I might have been a little redundant above but that's because the posts I've seen people seem to confuse process scheduler with the i/o scheduler, and they don't seem to answer the actual question, just provide links to what a scheduler is which is not what I'm after here, so apologies if the above comments sounded rude. When do I have to use 'will' instead of 'going to'? Does going to only express an intention and will some kind of prediction that doesn't necessarily happen?  EDIT: Thanks for all your answers. I asked this question because I always fail to complete exercises like this from an ESL book:   We  will fly to Venice in June. (Correct: But, how can I be sure that I'm not sick in June?) Philipp will be 15 next Wednesday (Correct: Since his birthday is a fixed day, this will happen). They will get a new computer. (Wrong: Why?, If I need a new computer, I simply get a new one) In 2020 people are going to buy more hybrid cars.  (Wrong, Why? Who can tell for sure). Where does the energy required to stop a moving body come from and go? For a long time, I have been thinking about this: In order to stop a moving body, I have to apply impulse to change the existing momentum to $0$. For the impulse I have to impart force on the moving body . That means I have to eliminate all the kinetic energy associated with the moving object in order to bring it to a halt. Thus, work is done on the object, right? If work is done, energy must be given by me...  Here is where my confusion arises:   If I eliminate the associated kinetic energy of the body, where does this energy go? The work(?) done by me on the moving object to stop it obviously uses energy from me. Again, where does this energy go? Does it make any difference for SEO benefits to buy dropped and already available domains other than backorder domains that are expiring soon?  I heard somewhere that whois gets deleted after being dropped. But I didn't find any confirmation if it's true or not.  Anybody can tell me if there are benefits of one against the other, if yes what? Do continuous linear functions between Banach spaces extend? Did the Nazgûl retain their Rings of Power? In The Fellowship of the Rings, Frodo sees the true appearance of the Nazgûl:      He was able to see beneath their black wrappings. There were five tall figures: two standing on the lip of the dell, three advancing. In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. Their eyes fell on him and pierced him, as they rushed towards him.   The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien - chapter 11, A Knife In the Dark   There's no mention of the Nazgûl wearing the rings of power that Sauron gave them, although their hands are referenced. Did the Nazgûl retain their rings of power once they became wraiths? Or did something else happen to the rings once the Nazgûl emerged?&#185;  &#185; As an FYI, I am currently re-reading The Lord of the Rings trilogy and am just pages from being done with The Fellowship of the Ring. I'm very familiar with the Peter Jackson movies. So that's where I'm coming from as far as canon knowledge goes. The internal storage on my phone is almost full. The storage screen tells me    2.77GB / 2.91 GB taken Apps 0.89GB Other 1.89 GB Available 138MB   What is this "other" and how can I clean it up? I already followed the steps of "make more space", it barely makes a difference.   Phone Storage then tells me 43.00MB / 1.09GB is taken.  And on the SD card I have 1.86GB / 14.72GB taken.  I have plenty of storage in various places yet when I try to install apps I'm unable to do so cause of "insufficient storage". How can I fix this? I need to refer to a model described elsewhere, from a section title, like  \section{Analysis of model X}    One way of referring to a model is to create a new counter, and then write  \section{Analysis of \cref{grandmodelofeverything}}   But now hyperref will complain because of invalid token, and it does not look good in the TOC either, especially since the titles of the sections the describe the models are more descriptive than  \section{Model 1}   They are currently like  \section{Adding the effect from Y processes}   Do I need to invent semi-descriptive long names like "The model by Authors with this modification" or can I live with these quirks? Failed to Login : Invalid session (Try restarting your game) Minecraft Error Does the VBA "And" operator evaluate the second argument when the first is false? What affects field upgrades in BF4? Creating Users on secondary server in log shipping I have a production Server say ServerA I have setup log shipping to ServerB which is left in read-only mode. The purpose of this log shipping is to lower the load on production server for some expensive queries (painful reports).   Now if I have to create some logins using our domain accounts. I cannot do this because the secondary database is in standby mode.   I thought if I create these logins on Primary server it will be copied over to secondary server then the logs are restored there but this isnt the case.   I have done a lot of research online finding a way around to this. I found the following resources for this. I tried every method suggested in this articles but none of them seems to work.   1)   2)   3)   Has someone experienced the same issue? what did you do? Is there any way around for this issue? Any suggestions any pointer please. Skip empty rasters in ArcGIS I'm trying to write some code to skip over empty raster sets when converting rasters to point (the empty sets stop the conversion, leaving me with a half complete model run).  I know that I can identify empty rasters using the ALLNODATA result from "Get Raster Properties" .  I know I can delete rasters using the Delete.management tool.  I know I should be able to create a branch using calculate value.  But I'm inexperienced with python and modelbuilder, and haven't been able to put this all together. Could someone help me figure out what I am doing wrong? My code and an image of the modelbuilder setup are below.  def fn(Property):  #Import modules      import arcpy  #ifelse statement if Property == "1":             return "true" elif Property == "0":            return "false" My questions is very simple. How can I set security setting for a PDF file created with PDFLatex?  I should set some password or print permissions, etc. This question isn't so much about how to achieve the effect of making a scene look like it's modelled in miniature, but why tilting the focal plane creates the effect. What is it about photographing miniatures that makes them look like miniatures, and how is this replicated by tilting the focal plane?  I can understand how when photographing a model of a scene, you have a much higher magnification, which leads to a shallower depth of field compared to when capturing the real-sized scene, but how does tilting the focal plane help? Is it just that you have the focal plane tilted relative to the plane that most of your subject is on, so that you can achieve a narrower depth of field for the focal length and aperture, or is there more to it than that? I have to prove that $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \left(1+n^2\right)^{\frac1n}$$ converges and give its limit. What I did was the following: $$\lim_{n\to\infty} \left(1+n^2\right)^\frac{1}{n} = \lim_{n\to\infty}(n^2)^{\frac1n}\lim_{n\to\infty}\left(\frac1{n^2} + 1\right)^\frac1n= \lim_{n\to\infty}(n^2)^{\frac1n}$$ Now that is where I am stuck - how to I continue with $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty}(n^2)^{\frac{1}{n}}$? I really don't have any ideas left... Thank you very much! FunkyPeanut In some scenes in Avengers: Age of Ultron Iron man, War Machine, and Captain America try to lift Thor’s hammer but they end up failing. At some point Vision lifts it easily. How can Vision lift it? Is there a quick proof as to why the vector space of $\mathbb{R}$ over $\mathbb{Q}$ is infinite-dimensional? It would seem that one way of proving this would be to show the existence of non-algebraic numbers. Is there a simpler way to show this? What happens when a caster targets an object that looks like a creature with a spell that targets only creatures? There are many spells which explicitly target creatures:     Choose one creature within range   The target creature is normally supposed to make a saving throw in this case.  What happens when the caster chooses a creature, that is actually an object? For instance, a scarecrow, a mannequin, an illusion, or a corpse.  Examples:   An evil mage is hiding in the bushes. He casts an illusion of himself on the road, using the Silent Image spell. A PC sorcerer walks down the road, sees the illusion and casts Magic Missile on it. A cleric is standing near a pile of dead bodies. He has suspicions that a few corpses are actually undead creatures. He casts Sacred Flame on every corpse, see which if them succeed, hence, reveals the undead. A wizard casts Acid Splash on a mannequin, trying to damage it with acid.   Possible outcomes I can think of are:   The caster cannot even try to cast the spell, regardless of their information about what the target actually is. The caster tries to cast the spell, the casting fails, not expending the spell slot. The caster casts the spell, it expends the spell slot, then fails. The caster casts the spell, but it hits the original and not the illusion. The caster casts the spell, it flies to the target illusion but deals no damage to it (passes through it).   References in the rules and Sage advice  I was trying to investigate, but it didn't make things clearer:    has an answer, that Magic Missile won't hit. It says nothing about if it can be targeted at all, it leaves it up to the DM. Magic Missile automatically finds the original, even when the caster targets an illusion. At least . Now . This supports the counter-intuitive option 4.   on the other hand   , if there were no perceivable effects (let's say you can try to cast the Command spell on an illusion). That assumes that casters can waste their spells on illusion, which means they at least can target it. This supports options 3 and 5.