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  Invert error - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Inverts are perhaps the most spectacular of a postage stamp errors, not only because of the striking visual appearance, but because they are almost always quite rare, and highly valued by stamp collectors.
An invert may be characterized as an "inverted center" or "inverted frame" when the underlying paper is watermarked or otherwise carries a basic orientation.
The Dag Hammarskjold invert of 1962 consists only of a misprinted yellow layer, and it is not immediately clear that the white area is not a deliberate element of the design.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Invert_error   (366 words)

  
 Multiparameter errors
The error matrix, also called the covariance matrix, is the inverse of the second derivative matrix of the (log-likelihood or chisquare) function with respect to its free parameters, usually assumed to be evaluated at the best parameter values (the function minimum).
This reduced error matrix will have its diagonal elements smaller or equal to the corresponding elements in the original error matrix, the difference representing the effect of knowing or not knowing the true value of the parameter that was removed at step two.
error in parameter one is the grey area of figure 7.2, extending to infinity at both the top and bottom of the figure.
wwwasdoc.web.cern.ch /wwwasdoc/minuit/node33.html   (969 words)

  
 MIT Scheme Reference - Error System
The error system supports this kind of application by providing mechanisms for distinguishing different types of error conditions and for the specification of where control should be transferred should a given condition arise.
This procedure returns the condition that was passed to the standard error handler as its argument.
Error messages typically consist of a string describing the error, followed by some irritant objects.
www.ceng.metu.edu.tr /docs/scheme/mit-scheme/scheme_17.html   (2388 words)

  
 U.S. Inverts -- Lee's Illustrated Stamp Listopedia
The vignette of an electric automobile is inverted in the 4-cent.
After a small number were discovered with the yellow background inverted, the Post Office intentionally reprinted the error, so that it is now worth little more than the rightside-up variety.
Nicknamed the "CIA invert" because 95 of the 100 existing inverts were sold to members of the CIA.
www.filbert.com /stamplistopedia/us_inverts/default.htm   (202 words)

  
 Alphabetilately: I is for Invert Error
The error was discovered by several different people soon after the stamp was issued, so it would never have been as scarce as the Jenny, nor as valuable, since it lacks the visual appeal.
I attribute it to the somewhat unattractive appearance of the invert.
Inverts are always big news among stamp collectors, and usually command high prices, but various elements of the story behind the stamps were suspicious.
alphabetilately.com /I.html   (2676 words)

  
 National Postal Museum
In the case of the Inverted Jenny, the frame was printed first.
In 1986 one hundred stamps with the inverted brown candleholder were sold to the public.
Five of those stamps were presumed to have been used on mail, with the invert error going undetected.
www.postalmuseum.si.edu /exhibits/2f1a_inverts.html   (594 words)

  
 stories3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A stamp of the same issue with an inverted center can be sold for one thousand times that price.
For the other inverted stamps shown on these pages, it was the vignette that was printed first, and the frame second.
Approximately one thousand errors were printed of the one-cent issue.
www.si.edu /harcourt/npm/exhibits/stories3.html   (598 words)

  
 SEP: Inverted Qualia
Invert would judge the maximally saturated colors she calls ‘shades of blue’ to be lighter than the maximally saturated colors she calls ‘shades of yellow’.
Invert would not be able to distinguish some stimuli (those she calls ‘bluish red’) that Nonvert could tell apart, and so again the inversion would be behaviorally detectable.
This scenario is therefore the converse of typical inverted spectrum scenarios: instead of keeping the environment fixed and varying the internal constitution of the subject, Inverted Earth varies the environment and (due to the inverting lenses) keeps the subject's internal constitution fixed.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/qualia-inverted   (14817 words)

  
 MIT Scheme Reference: Error System
Errors are usually handled by stopping the computation and putting the user in an error REPL.
The error system supports this kind of application by providing mechanisms for distinguishing different types of error conditions and for specifying where control should be transferred should a given condition arise.
This type indicates the class of errors in which a program discovers an object that is of the correct type but is otherwise out of range.
www-swiss.ai.mit.edu /projects/scheme/documentation/scheme_17.html   (6852 words)

  
 Inverted Stamps
This is rare in not being a two colour error, rather an incorrect use of the dies in making up the plate.
A strange one this - after the error was discovered a printing of the error was ordered so collectors would have a the opportunity to own one.
Inverted overprints are much more common as are inverted watermarks.
www.100megsfree3.com /glaw/invert/index.htm   (331 words)

  
 License Plate Errors - Misfits of License Plate Collectibles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
INVERT: A license plate that usually has the registration number stamped onto the plate upside down, as compared to the background graphics, and/or the state name or legends.
BACK ROLLERS: Error that occurs in older plate, when an unpainted finished plate is run through the paint rollers wrong side up, usually resulting in a reverse color "debossed and backwards" image on the back side of the plate.
Early Georgia full invert error - This 1939 Georgia invery is one of the oldest ones residing in my collection.
users.aol.com /PL8Seditor/errors.htm   (979 words)

  
 Kofax: Support: ImageControls Application Note: Creating an Image Viewer and Inverter
One typical use of displaying a image in inverted format would be for viewing images stored on microfilm or microfiche, where the background is fl and image is not easily read.
As a result, if the user selects to invert a image that cannot be inverted, such as a JPEG format image or a greyscale or color TIFF image, then the image will be copied over without inverting the image data.
The menu selections are used to print the inverted image, exit the form and adjust the scale of the view.
www.kofax.com /support/IP/TOOLKIT/IC/3/appnotes_creating_Invert.asp   (1374 words)

  
 Alphabetilately: E is for EFO's
But most errors are caught and destroyed in the printing plant - it is the relatively few that are missed and reach the public that concern us here.
Here's an example of an "imperf error", i.e., a case where the stamps failed to receive the perforations they should have had, and were released in error.
This error occurs only in position LR100 of plate 21590, and results from an incomplete transfer from the die roll to the plate, so it occurs on all LR panes with this plate number.
alphabetilately.com /E.html   (1642 words)

  
 Saskatoon Stamp Centre - $2 Truro Invert
In April of 1996, the discovery of the $2.00 Truro Provincial Normal School definitive issue with Inverted Inscriptions was announced and two of the 4 panes discovered were exhibited at the Capex'96 International Philatelic Exhibition in Toronto in June of that year.
As, it was, in fact, the already printed center portion that was inverted, and the inscriptions that were printed right side up on an inverted sheet one could call it either and be correct.
The block contained 9 of the inverts and 3 each of the two "white" margin invert errors, the rarest of the whole Truro Invert group.
www.saskatoonstamp.com /prs_truro_invert.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Synchronous Serial Port Adapters Feature Module
Systems that use long cables or cables that are not transmitting the TxC signal (transmit echoed clock line, also known as TXCE or SCTE clock) can experience high error rates when operating at the higher transmission speeds.
By inverting the HDLC data stream, the HDLC zero insertion algorithm becomes a ones insertion algorithm that satisfies the T1 requirements.
Be careful not to invert data both on the interface and on the CSU/DSU as two data inversions will cancel each other out.
cisco.com /univercd/cc/td/doc/product/software/ios111/ca111/pam8t.htm   (1204 words)

  
 1869 Issue - Inverts
However, the 1869 inverts were the first bicolored errors to be recognized philatelically, as the Indian error was not recognized until 1874.
The 24¢ Petrie 'invert' proof uses frame plate #20 (the one originally to be expected) and vignette plate #24 (the second of the 'new' numbers assigned).
To summarize, the information regarding the early discoveries of the inverts suggests that invert cliché errors occurred in both the vignette plate #19 of the 15¢ and the vignette plate #20 of the 24¢ and were discovered early.
www.nystamp.org /1869Issue.html   (13130 words)

  
 QPx_InvertAreaImage
Inverts the colors of the image in a QPix plug-in area.
The selectionOnly parameter is a number that denotes what part of the image to invert.
To invert the image portion that is currently selected with the marquee tool, set selectionOnly to 1.
www.escape.gr /manuals/qpix/commands/QPx_InvertAreaImage.html   (83 words)

  
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If there is an error, ncom is reset to 30 and C the last 8 characters is COM become "TIME BAD".
C ERROR - logical error flag C C If ERROR is true, the part of the time that could not be C accurately determined is set = nines in its significant C digits, (i.e.
This information is recorded in a two- C dimensional array where the first value in each pair is the C time-series index of the beginning of the peak, and the second C value in the pair is the width of the peak in time counts.
www.geol.vt.edu /outreach/vtso/anonftp/events/st2sac.f   (2213 words)

  
 New Page 1
The "error" SPU is in fact the default SuperSPU.
In the case of the Invert SPU, we will inherit from the "passthrough" SPU, since we want to modify an OpenGL stream as it is made.
It is important that the invert SPU comes before the client SPU in the configuration script, since that is the SPU chain order that will be created when the application starts up.
people.csail.mit.edu /jon/chromium/newspu.html   (1430 words)

  
 Problem with DrawSubset() function - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This means that it can't invert scaling matrices, except in the special case of scaling by -1 (which is a reflection).
I don't use meshes myself at this point, so I don't know the specific problem it's having, but it sounds as if you have a scaling factor in your view matrix.
I dont get that stupid error anymore, and I can see something, but I am not sure if it is the tiger model (the one supplied with the SDK), but the funny green and purple lines still flash across the screen.
www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=82680&whichpage=1   (504 words)

  
 "...and my heart stood still"
As Robey’s May 10 letter proves, he was well-aware of the potential for an invert and hopeful that he might be the lucky discoverer at the post office on May 14.
The First Printing sheets, including the Invert error, were consistently trimmed at the top and right, which cut off the plate numbers 8492 and 8493 in the top margin.
Although the Bureau inspectors were extremely careful in detecting misprints, one sheet of Inverted “Jenny” stamps was sold at the post office and eight other sheets were reported found and destroyed (from a statement by the director of the Bureau to Philip H. Ward).
siegelauctions.com /2005/901/901intro.htm   (3010 words)

  
 You can enjoy the stamps you can't afford
New versions of the inverts from the Pan-American set will be issued in March.
Sweden's 1855 Three Skilling Banco yellow error of color and its recent appearance at the Nordia 2001 stamp exhibition in Tucson, Ariz., shows how a stamp that interests stamp collectors can also come to the attention of the general public.
Three of those stamps were found with the centers printed upside down (or inverted): the 1¢ and 2¢ were printed and sold that way accidentally, and the 4¢ was printed by order of the U.S. Post Office Department following apparently erroneous reports that a 4¢ invert had been discovered.
linns.com /howto/refresher/rarestamps_20010226/refreshercourse.asp?uID=   (1463 words)

  
 Generating non-uniform distributions
This can be accomplished by inverting the indefinite integral of the desired distribution (see lecture notes).
As an example, generate energy values distributed according to the Boltzmann distribution, at a temperature of 298 K, and plot the distribution as a histogram.
This can be done in Mathematica by loading in a statistics package (the error function often shows up in statistical analysis because of its close relationship to the normal distribution).
www.krellinst.org /UCES/demos/ChemistryLaboratory/lab5/Lab5/node6.html   (288 words)

  
 CIA Invert Stamp
The CIA invert is the one of the most well known inverted color errors in United States collecting; only to the famous Inverted Jenny, C3a, is more widely sought.
News of the error reached CIA officials who sought to claim ownership and US Postal authorities who tried to recover the stamps.
Because the number of existing CIA inverts approximately equals the number of existing Inverted Jennies (C3a), many speculate that current values for 1610c are far too low; examples of C3a regularly bring six-figure sums at auction.
www.hgitner.com /CIAinvert.html   (281 words)

  
 :symbol-names-action
Removing symbol names makes it very difficult to debug the application, and it is assumed that it is done after the application is essentially error free.
However, some applications may make use of symbol names as strings, which may causes errors to appear only when the symbol names are removed.
In some cases, the easiest solution is not to get rid of symbol names, but this has an effect on the size of the application.
www.lispworks.com /documentation/lw445/DV/html/deluser-163.htm   (334 words)

  
 CLSV: Section 23.1
If it is false, then no error is signaled, and instead the function returns \param{eof-value}.
Functions such as read that read the representation of an object rather than a single character always signals an error, regardless of \param{eof-error-p}, if the file ends in the middle of an object representation.
If \param{recursive-p} is true, then the end-of-file is deemed to have occurred within the middle of a printed representation; if \param{recursive-p} is false, then the end-of-file may be deemed to have occurred between objects rather than within the middle of one.
www.dridus.com /~nyef/clsv/23_a.html   (797 words)

  
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To: ptolemy-hackers at ohm.Berkeley.EDU Status: O Subject: help_please Status: O Content-Length: 1659 Dear "Giants of Ptolemy", I'm trying to measure the BER of a communications model with an exclusive-OR gate made from gates located in the DE domain.
However, my model is constructed of SDF stars from the main and dsp palettes and thus an error like this results: vem> Unknown star 'Invert' in current domain, trying to load it...
Error: star 'Invert' belongs to an incompatible domain.
ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu /mailing-lists/split/9206/help_please11   (257 words)

  
 Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale - 811 (PR) Page 37
An August 24 cover from Oakland, California, is recorded with the 1c Invert and normal 4c used together for the 5c rate to Paris, France.
The third known cover is a philatelist's creation, mailed from St. Louis on January 9, 1903, well after the Invert error was recognized.
The 1c Pan-American Inverts were found in at least four different post offices around the country, soon after release of the issue in May 1901.
www.siegelauctions.com /811/y81137.htm   (690 words)

  
 invert - OneLook Dictionary Search
Invert : Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
Phrases that include invert: invert blending, invert error, invert half-tone gravure, invert manhole, invert matrix, more...
Words similar to invert: inverted, inverting, reverse, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=invert   (241 words)

  
 Drew's PLATESTAND - ERROR plates, oddballs, test, prototypes!
ERRORS - Inverts, Die errors, Misprints, and other freaks of the plate world....
This is one of a truck pair that has recently surfaced, and I have a passenger plate from the same year in my collection.
- OREGON - 1957 Trailer Coach error - here's a rare one, from a state that never lets errors loose - simple enough screw-up, the tab slots were stamped into the plate on the wrong side, resulting in the slots being on the bottom right, instead of over the date.
www.pl8s.com /platestand-err.htm   (5027 words)

  
 Personal Home Page
The bubble chamber and the transistor were invented.
I used an enormous computer (with vacuum tubes, of course) at Argonne to invert an error matrix for my thesis.
After two years in the US Air Force, I joined the faculty at Columbia University as an instructor in 1960.
www.hep.wisc.edu /~pondrom   (516 words)

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