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In Stanley Kubrick's 1957 Paths of Glory , when those French soldiers failed to go over the top and take the anthill, the general staff arbitrarily picked three poor, dumb bastards to be tried and executed for cowardice.
Alas, all clarity has gone by the board since Americans arbitrarily decided to use billion for a `thousand million.
To take such discrepancies into account we optimized the cut-off for each gene as follows: cut-off = t + ( k / n ) where t is the minimum threshold, k is a constant and n is the number of abstracts retrieved for a given gene; t and k must be set arbitrarily and will directly influence resolution and noise levels.
In one sense, the second millennium in fact contains nearly everything we think of as "history," for even if we arbitrarily define "history" as stopping in 1950, something like 99.
There are also two large groups which are not admissible as metaphors because they derive arbitrarily from sound-similarities without the necessary sense-relationship.