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remainder 1. Maths a. the amount left over when one quantity cannot be exactly divided by another b. another name for difference 2. Property law a future interest in property; an interest in a particular estate that will pass to one at some future date, as on the death of the current possessor remainder [ri′mān·dər] (mathematics) The remaining integer when a division of an integer by another is performed; ifl=m·p+r,wherel, m, p,andrare integers andris less thanp,thenris the remainder whenlis divided byp. The remaining polynomial when division of a polynomial is performed; ifl=m·p+r,wherel, m, p,andrare polynomials, and the degree ofris less than that ofp,thenris the remainder whenlis divided byp. The remaining part of a convergent infinite series after a computation, for somen,of the firstnterms. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as either one could steal a dollar to bribe the judge. That very man whose judgment was so sound and accurate where merit was concerned - he who had swept into his coffers the inheritance of Nicholas Fouquet, who had robbed him of Lenotre and Lebrun, and had sent him to rot for the remainder of his life in one of the state prisons - merely remembered the peaches of that vanquished, crushed, forgotten enemy His tail shot suddenly erect and at the same instant the wary ape-man, knowing all too well what the signal portended, grasped the remainder of the deer's hind quarter between his teeth and leaped into a nearby tree as Numa charged him with all the speed and a sufficient semblance of the weight of an express train. |
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