For most people, the answer is a clear and certain "yes," but Larry David is not like most people, and there's a certain and very funny thrill to watching him act so selfishly in moments like these.
A special case of "the law of large numbers," it tells us that an event of extremely low probability;like, say, my beating Pete Sampras in a set of tennis;is certain (yes, certain) to occur if the number of trials is high enough.
LW: To a certain extent yes, but it is also a question of priorities: they have been spending a lot of money on the Ares-Orion, which is the next government system that should allow us to go back to the moon and Mars, and that system has been over budget.
Harlow: To a certain degree yes.
JW: Yes, on a certain level, yes, and the second year by most accounts was the more difficult year, so in a sense I saw where they were headed, but part of it was a lot of the change that was happening.
The jokes came fast, with Indiana Jones, Wonder Woman, and the Blues Brothers all brought out as certain "yes" votes.
In their article in Nature, the Israeli scientists describe their DNA computer as a molecular model of one of the simplest computing machines, the automaton that can answer certain yes or no questions.
To a certain extent, yes.
To a certain degree, yes.
At a certain stage, yes, I would shout and swear.
