From Alice in Wonderland:  She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: 'Where's the other ladder?  Why did the writer add an article with the plural noun voices?
In "Seeing like a state" of James C.Scott there is a sentence at the beginning of a paragraph (Acknowledgements xi):     There are a good many scholars whose writings opened up new   perspectives for me or provided outstanding analyses of issues that I   could not have hoped to study so comprehensively on my own.   What worries me is a good many scholars. Is this some type of inversion or ancient English? Is this grammatically right? Why is a here? I thought that appropriate version would be There are many good scholars. Am I wrong?
Age of universe? Well relativity teaches us that time interval between two events is a frame dependent quantity, then how can we say that our universe is 13.8 billion years old? Should it not depend on who is asking this question? Can moving tables to another MySQL database help performance? I want to know if I using different databases can help performance.  I have one big table support_chat with more than 5 million rows. I need to scan this all the time (3s with ajax) to check new messages on support.  If I move this table to another database in the same computer, can it help anything? (let users, sells, comments table faster)  For example:  db1  users table sells table comments table support_chat table // move this table to db2   db2  support_chat table   They want to keep old things due legal reasons, to have a user support history. Going back twice required to return to search results in the tags view This looks a little bit like a variation on  but specific to the tags view.  Reproduction (app version 1.0.71):   Select any site (say Meta) from the sidebar Switch to the tags view using the top bar Choose a tag, any tag ( is nice)   optionaly refine your search with more terms  Go to any question found, go back   you end on the unfiltered tags view  Go back again   lucky you, your search is here How can I decode HTML characters in C#? I'm trying to find  $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\frac{n}{\sqrt[n]{n!}} .$$   I tried couple of methods: Stolz, Squeeze, D'Alambert  Thanks!  Edit: I can't use Stirling. June 13th 2017 Microsoft blocked handling HTML markup in SharePoint calculated fields - how to get the same functionality back On June 13th 2017 all SharePoint calculated columns with HTML markup stopped working.   Basically the fields now render text (regardless of setting the data type to number). The gist of the notice from Microsoft () is:     In Microsoft SharePoint lists and libraries, calculated fields that   are running in the classic UI mode can be used to display results   based on Excel-like formulas. This is a long standing capability, and   is documented in Calculate data in lists or libraries.      Some users have added HTML markup or script elements to calculated   fields. This is an undocumented use of the feature, and we will begin   blocking execution of custom markup in calculated fields in SharePoint   Online from June 13, 2017 onwards. We are also providing this as a   configurable option for on-premises in SharePoint Server 2016 and   SharePoint Server 2013 via the June 2017 and subsequent Public   Updates.   As we don't have on premise SharePoint (online), we have to find an immediate work around, given that this impacts our processes and thus, business.   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System of congruences with variable I am looking over , and I came across a solution containing this:  Problem Bernardo chooses a three-digit positive integer $N$ and writes both its base-5 and base-6 representations on a blackboard. Later LeRoy sees the two numbers Bernardo has written. Treating the two numbers as base-10 integers, he adds them to obtain an integer $S$. For example, if $N = 749$, Bernardo writes the numbers $10,\!444$ and $3,\!245$, and LeRoy obtains the sum $S = 13,\!689$. For how many choices of $N$ are the two rightmost digits of $S$, in order, the same as those of $2N$? $\textbf{(A)}\ 5 \qquad\textbf{(B)}\ 10 \qquad\textbf{(C)}\ 15 \qquad\textbf{(D)}\ 20 \qquad\textbf{(E)}\ 25$ Solution 1 First, we can examine the units digits of the number base 5 and base 6 and eliminate some possibilities. Say that $N \equiv a \pmod{6}$ also that $N \equiv b \pmod{5}$ Substituting these equations into the question and setting the units digits of $2N$ and $S$ equal to each other, it can be seen that $b &lt; 5$ (because otherwise $a$ and $b$ will have different parities), and thus $a=b$. $N \equiv a \pmod{6}$, $N \equiv  a \pmod{5}$, $\implies N=a \pmod{30}$, $0 \le a \le 4$ Therefore, $N$ can be written as $30x+y$ and $2N$ can be written as $60x+2y$ Just keep in mind that $y$ can be one of five choices: $0, 1, 2, 3,$ or $4$, ; Also, we have already found which digits of $y$ will add up into the units digits of $2N$. Now, examine the tens digit, $x$ by using $\mod{25}$ and $\mod{36}$ to find the tens digit (units digits can be disregarded because $y=0,1,2,3,4$ will always work) Then we take $N=30x+y$ $\mod{25}$ and $\mod{36}$ to find the last two digits in the base $5$ and $6$ representation.[N \equiv 30x \pmod{36}][N \equiv 30x \equiv 5x \pmod{25}]Both of those must add up to[2N\equiv60x \pmod{100}] $N\equiv{30x\mod{36}}\\N\equiv{30x}\equiv{5x\mod{25}}$ Both of these must add up to $2N\equiv{60x\mod{100}}$ [...]  I'm not really sure which modular arithmetic rule to apply in the final three congruences, or where to start. How would I go about understand this? Inline elements shifting when made bold on hover I created a horizontal menu using a HTML lists and CSS. Everything works as it should except when you hover over the links. You see, I created a bold hover state for the links, and now the menu links shift because of the bold size difference.  I encounter the same problem as . However, the post does not have proper solution. I've searched everywhere for a solution and can't find one. Surely I can't be the only one trying to do this.  Does anyone have any ideas?  P.S: I don't know the width of the text in menu items so I cannot just set the width of the li items.    .nav { margin: 0; padding: 0; } .nav li {      list-style: none;      display: inline;      border-left: #ffffff 1px solid;  } .nav li a:link, .nav li a:visited {      text-decoration: none;      color: #000;      margin-left: 8px;      margin-right: 5px;  } .nav li a:hover{      text-decoration: none;      font-weight: bold;  } .nav li.first { border: none; } &lt;ul class="nav"&gt;     &lt;li class="first"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;item 0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;item 1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;item 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;item 3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;item 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; Possible Duplicate:          In a question, I see that each time I refresh the page, the answers were placed in a different order. The question has 3 answers each with zero votes. 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What changed between SE 1.0 and 2.0? Taylor's Remainder $x-\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{3(1+x)}<\log(1+x) <x-\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{3}$ Prove that   $\displaystyle x-\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{3(1+x)}&lt;\log(1+x) &lt;x-\frac{x^2}{2}+\frac{x^3}{3}$  My attempt: I can prove this by taking one side at a time and assuming $\displaystyle f(x) = \log (1+x)-x+\frac{x^2}{2}-\frac{x^3}{3}$   and then proving that it is a decreasing function and then the same for the other side.  But I am looking for a better solution using Lagrange's Mean Value Theorem or using Taylor's remainder.