Unreferenced date December 2009 Main Taxicab Image Time square HK taxi rank in rainyday.JPG thumb A taxi stand in Causeway Bay , Hong Kong on a rainy day Image Bombat taxi.jpg thumb Taxi stand in Mumbai , India Image TaxiloadingzoneinDowntownHouston.JPG thumb A taxi loading zone in Downtown Houston Downtown Houston , Texas , United States A taxicab stand also called taxi rank , cab stand , taxi stand , cab rank , or hack stand is a queue area on a street or on private property where taxicab s line up to wait for passengers. How stands work Stands are normally located at high traffic locations such as airport s, hotel driveways, railway stations, rapid transit subway stations, bus depots, ferry terminals, shopping mall shopping centre s, and major street intersections. Usually stands are marked by simple painted signs. Stands generally work as a first come, first served queue, so that the first taxicab to arrive on the stand the one at the front of the line serves the first passenger to arrive, and as the first taxicab leaves, each taxicab behind it moves ahead one spot, with the last taxicab to arrive taking the last spot. In the Republic of Ireland an intending passenger is entitled to choose any taxicab that is available for hire at an appointed taxi stand. http www.taxiregulator.ie The Commission for Taxi Regulation has deemed that the customer has the right to choose and the principle of first come, first served is dismissed. Around the world Main Taxicabs by region In some cities, such as London and New York, New York New York , some older taxi stands are marked by special lamps with TAXI painted on the sides of them. Some major stands are divided into separate queues ..., as some of their service areas overlap. Recharging Taxicab stands can be used to recharge batteries of electric taxi s See also Commons category Taxicab stands Taxicab stand Charging station Electric vehicle References References Public transport DEFAULTSORT Taxicab Stand Category Taxicabs Category ... more details
In mathematics , the n th taxicab number , typically denoted Ta n or Taxicab n , is defined as the smallest number that can be expressed as a sum of two positive Cube algebra algebraic cubes in n distinct ways. The concept was first mentioned in 1657 by Bernard Fr nicle de Bessy , and was made famous ... than two and three, respectively. Known taxicab numbers So far, the following six taxicab numbers ... taxicab numbers were found with the help of computers. John Leech mathematician John Leech obtained ... journals JIS wilson10.html The Fifth Taxicab Number is 48988659276962496 by David W. Wilson ... The sixth taxicab number is 24153319581254312065344 by Uwe Hollerbach ref following a 2003 paper by Calude ... and M. J. Dinneen What is the value of Taxicab 6 ?, Journal of Universal Computer Science, Vol ... http www.christianboyer.com taxicab New Upper Bounds for Taxicab and Cabtaxi Numbers Christian Boyer, France, 2006 2008 ref A more restrictive taxicab problem requires that the taxicab number be cubefree, which means that it is not divisible by any cube other than 1 sup 3 sup . When a cubefree taxicab ... prime for all pairs x , y . Among the taxicab numbers Ta n listed above, only Ta 1 and Ta 2 are cubefree taxicab numbers. The smallest cubefree taxicab number with three representations was discovered ... taxicab number with four representations was discovered by Stuart Gascoigne and independently by Duncan ... See also Diophantine equation generalized taxicab number Notes references References G. H. Hardy ... Computer World , November 1989. David W. Wilson, The Fifth Taxicab Number is 48988659276962496 , Journal ... 394. C. S. Calude, E. Calude and M. J. Dinneen What is the value of Taxicab 6 ? , Journal of Universal ... L. Rathbun http euler.free.fr Taxicab and other maths at Euler Category Number theory Category Srinivasa Ramanujan ar de Taxicab Zahl es N mero taxicab eu Taxicab zenbakia fr Nombre taxicab it Numero taxicab ja pl Liczba taks wkowa simple Taxicab number fi Taksiluku sv Taxital ... more details
Infobox Film name The Faithful Taxicab image image size caption director Mack Sennett producer Mack Sennett writer narrator starring Roscoe Arbuckle Fatty Arbuckle music cinematography editing distributor released September 18, 1913 runtime country Film US language Silent film Silent br English language English intertitles budget preceded by followed by The Faithful Taxicab is a 1913 in film 1913 Short film short comedy film featuring Roscoe Arbuckle Fatty Arbuckle . Cast Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle Mabel Normand Ford Sterling See also List of American films of 1913 Fatty Arbuckle filmography External links imdb title id 0002839 title The Faithful Taxicab DEFAULTSORT Faithful Taxicab, The Category 1913 films Category American films Category 1910s comedy films Category American silent short films Category Black and white films Category 1910s short films short silent comedy film stub ... more details
File Manhattan distance.svg thumb 200px Taxicab geometry versus Euclidean distance In taxicab geometry all three pictured lines red, blue, and yellow have the same length 12 for the same route. In Euclidean .... Taxicab geometry , considered by Hermann Minkowski in the 19th century, is a form of geometry in which .... The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance , L sub 1 sub distance or math ell ... to the intersections distance in taxicab geometry. Formal description The taxicab distance, math d ... plane , the taxicab distance between math p 1,p 2 math and math q 1,q 2 math is math p 1 q 1 p 2 q 2 . math Taxicab distance depends on the rotation of the coordinate system, but does not depend on its ... . Taxicab geometry satisfies all of Hilbert s axioms a formalization of Euclidean geometry except for the Congruence ... thumb 100px right Circles in discrete and continuous taxicab geometry A circle is a set of points with a fixed distance, called the radius , from a point called the center . In taxicab geometry, distance ... as well. Taxicab circles are square geometry square s with sides oriented at a 45 angle to the coordinate ... become more numerous and become a rotated square in a continuous taxicab geometry. While ... in taxicab geometry is 2 r . Thus, a circle s circumference is 8 r . Thus, the value of a geometric analog to Pi math pi math is 4 in this geometry. The formula for the unit circle in taxicab geometry ... be viewed as equivalent by rotation and scaling to planar taxicab distance. However, this equivalence ... distance leads to a strange concept when the resolution of the Taxicab geometry is made larger ... book author Eugene F. Krause title Taxicab Geometry year 1987 publisher Dover isbn 0 486 25202 7 ... mathworld title Taxicab Metric urlname TaxicabMetric http www.nist.gov dads HTML manhattanDistance.html ... , NIST http www.ams.org featurecolumn archive taxi.html Taxi AMS column about Taxicab geometry ... Norms mathematics ar cs Manhattansk metrika de Manhattan Metrik es Geometr a taxicab ... more details
Refimprove date February 2010 Infobox television show name Taxicab Confessions image include ALT text per WP ALT guideline caption show name 2 genre Reality television Reality format creator developer writer director Harry Gantz br Joe Gantz creative director presenter starring judges voices narrated theme music composer opentheme endtheme composer country United States language num seasons 11 num episodes 19 list episodes executive producer Sheila Nevins producer Harry Gantz br Joe Gantz br John Hoffman editor location Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas br New York City cinematography Mitchell Wagenberg br Joe Gantz camera runtime company distributor Home Box Office br Warner Home Video channel HBO picture format audio format first run first aired Start date 1995 01 last aired status preceded by followed by related website http www.hbo.com documentaries taxicab confessions the city that never sleeps index.html production website Taxicab Confessions is a television series of hidden camera documentaries that have aired on HBO since January 1995. In segments taped in New York City and Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas , the taxicab taxi drivers are also Television producer producers who steer both the vehicle and the conversations with passengers. When passengers enter the cab, they are recorded with several small hidden camera cameras hidden in the taxi. The producer prompts passengers into discussing their past and or present circumstances. This has led some participants to reflect on their life ... in which Homer complains about his family on a program called Taxicab Conversations . In Spin City Michael Flaherty asks after being interrogated by a taxi driver whether this is Taxicab Conversations ... the waiver for a TV show called Taxicab Confessions . Two clips of the recordings made in the cab follow ... External links http www.hbo.com documentaries taxicab confessions the city that never sleeps index.html Taxicab Confessions site at HBO.com http www.hbo.com docs programs taxicab10 archive.html Episode ... more details
unsolved mathematics Does there exist any number that can be expressed as a sum of 2 positive 5 th powers in at least 2 different ways, i.e., a sup 5 sup b sup 5 sup nowiki nowiki c sup 5 sup d sup 5 sup ? In mathematics , the generalized taxicab number Taxicab k , j , n is the smallest number which can be expressed as the sum of j k th positive powers in n different ways. For k 3 and j 2, they coincide with Taxicab number s. It has been shown by Euler that math mathrm Taxicab 4, 2, 2 635318657 59 4 158 4 133 4 134 4 math However, Taxicab 5, 2, n is not known for any n &ge 2 no positive integer is known which can be written as the sum of two fifth powers in more than one way. ref cite book last Guy first Richard K. authorlink Richard K. Guy title Unsolved problems in number theory third edition publisher Springer Science Business Media, Inc. date 2004 location New York, New York, USA pages 437 url http books.google.com books?id 1AP2CEGxTkgC&printsec frontcover v onepage&q &f false doi id isbn 0 387 20860 7 ref See also Cabtaxi number References references External links Walter Schneider mathematician Walter Schneider http web.archive.org web 20050425023736 http www.wschnei.de number theory taxicab numbers.html Taxicab numbers Category Number theory ar de Taxicab Zahl Verallgemeinerte Taxicab Zahl es N mero taxicab generalizado fr Nombre taxicab g n ralis ja ... more details
Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants Black & White Taxicab Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab Co. ArgueDateA January 13 ArgueDateB 16 ArgueYear 1928 DecideDate April 9 DecideYear 1928 FullName Black & White Taxicab & Transfer Company v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab & Transfer Company USVol 276 USPage 518 Citation 48 S.Ct. 404 Prior Judgment for plaintiff, United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky W.D. Ky. affirmed, 15 F.2d 509 Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit C.C.A. 6th 1926 certiorari cert. granted, 273 U.S. 690 1927 Holding In suit in federal court to restrain interference with railroad s contract granting exclusive privileges to plaintiff taxicab company in soliciting patronage at depot, federal courts are not bound by Kentucky decisions that such contracts are invalid, since, in determining questions of general law, federal courts are free to exercise their own independent judgment. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. SCOTUS 1925 1930 Majority Butler JoinMajority Taft, Van Devanter, McReynolds, Sutherland, Sanford Dissent Holmes JoinDissent Brandeis, Stone LawsApplied Black & White Taxicab Co. v. Brown & Yellow Taxicab Co. , 276 U.S. 518 1928 , was a decision by the US United States Supreme Court Supreme Court in which the Court refused to hold that federal courts sitting in diversity jurisdiction must apply U.S. State state common law . Ten years later, in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins , the Court reversed course, and overturned Swift . It is most famous for the dissent of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. . See also List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 276 External links wikisource Black and White Taxicab Company v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Company caselaw source case Black and White Taxicab Co. v. Brown and Yellow Taxicab Co. , 276 U.S. 518 1928 findlaw http caselaw.lp.findlaw.com scripts getcase.pl?navby CASE&court US&vol 276&page 518 justia http supreme.justia.com us 276 518 case.html Category 1928 in United States case ... more details
Summary This is a diagram of two different circles in Taxicab Geometry that have the possibility of interersecting at an infinite number of points on the grid. The green dots are the locations on the grid where the circles intersect. Licensing PD self date June 2007 Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot ... more details
Summary Photograph taken in March 2007 of a taxicab rank outside Liverpool Lime Street railway station . Licensing self GFDL cc by 2.5 migration relicense Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot priority true ... more details
FL1 is an initialism that may stand for Football League One A technical standard for the rating of Flashlight s A model of the Chinese Silkworm missile A taxicab, one of the List of Austin motor cars disambiguation ... more details
Tap Tap can refer to A type of Tap tap taxicab Tap Tap , A series of video games for the iPhone OS A Tap Tap band band A rapper disambig ... more details
Merge to List of Beano comic strips discuss Talk List of Beano comic strips Merger proposal date December 2011 Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Maxy s Taxi was a comic strip in the United Kingdom UK comic The Beano . It ran during the 1940s to early 1950s, taking a third of a page. The strip focused on an antiquated red taxicab , driven by a man called Maxy. D. C. Thomson Comics Beano Category Fictional taxicab drivers Category Beano strips UK comics stub ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Unreferenced date October 2008 Notability date October 2008 United Cabs was started in 1938 in New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans, LA . It is the largest company in the area with over 400 radio dispatched Taxicab cab s. External links http www.unitedcabs.com United Cabs Inc. Category Taxicab companies Transport company stub ... more details
wiktionarypar cabbie Cabbie may refer to A taxicab driver A Lee C Kearns , a.k.a The Cabbie the stand up comedian and vantriloquist Lee Mroszak , a.k.a. Crazy Cabbie, deejay and former regular guest on The Howard Stern Show Cabbie Richards , Canadian TV personality London Cabbie , a board game disambig ... more details
wiktionary city block City block may refer to City block , an area of a city surrounded by streets City Block Judge Dredd , a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd Taxicab geometry or city block distance, a special case of the Minkowski distance disambig ... more details
Summary These are some examples nine of biangles two sided polygons existing in Taxicab Geometry of eight units of length. Many other possibilities exist. Licensing PD self date June 2007 Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot Orphan image ... more details
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Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image GariAdama.jpg thumb 250px right A gari crosses the busy Addis Ababa Dire Dawa Road in Adama , Ethiopia . About the horse drawn cart alternative meanings Gari disambiguation A gari is a horse horse drawn cart . Garis typically have two wheel wheels with rubber tires , are pulled by one horse, and can carry two passengers plus the driver. Within towns and cities, they function as taxicab s. DEFAULTSORT Gari Vehicle Category Carts Category Taxicab vehicles Vehicle stub ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2009 The Big Garage was a children s television program that aired on TLC TV channel TLC . It was produced by Prisma Productions in association with Winchester Entertainment . It debuted on TLC February 22, 1995. Aimed at pre school children, the show follows the adventures of several anthropomorphic taxicab s. At the end of each episode, there are two short scenes. The first is about a stop sign, and the second is about a group of tools a hammer, a saw, three spanners, a nut and bolt, an oil can, and a pair of pliers . The show came to an end on July 17, 2001 and no longer broadcasts on TLC. Repeats can be seen on Smile of a Child , a Christian based children s channel. Characters London is a blue taxicab , which wears the number 1. As his name suggests, he has a England British accent and closely resembles a typical taxicab in the United Kingdom UK . He is an LTI Fairway. Voiced by Terrence Scammell . ZigZag is a purple taxicab, which wears the number 2. She is the fastest taxicab on the show. Her overconfidence sometimes gets the better of her. She is a 1946 Ford Super Deluxe Coupe. Voiced by Patricia Rodriguez . Yorky is a yellow taxicab, which wears the number 3. He likes to be cool and speaks, true to his name, with a New York accent, and closely resembles a typical New York City taxicab. He is a 1974 Checker Taxicab. Voiced by Rick Jones voice actor Rick Jones . Mimi is a red taxicab which wears the number 4. She appears to be somewhat shy. She is also the only taxicab with her name written on her, near her trunk. She has a pacifier in her mouth, as she is the baby of the four taxis. She is a 1935 Cord 810. Voiced by Liz MacRae . Other characters Rusty is a green tow truck which lives in a Wreck yard junkyard . It seems that in some episode s he is the gang s nemesis and in some is their friendship friend . He is also seen singing with the taxis and Pump, though he has never sung solo. He is a 1948 Chevrolet Pickup. Voiced by Rick ... more details
Noref date May 2011 Image LimoNCP42Taxi.JPG thumb right Taxicab in Jakarta city Toyota Limo NCP42 The Toyota Limo is a lower spec of the Toyota Vios and Toyota Corolla E120 Toyota Corolla Altis . Basically it features less equipment and has lower trim levels. It is used as a taxicab by the Bluebird Group in Indonesia, specially rebadged as the Toyota Limo. This is not to be confused with Toyota Corolla E120 Toyota Corolla Altis rebadged as such. Models released NCP42 2004 NCP43 2007 See also Toyota Vios Toyota Comfort Toyota Crown Comfort Toyota Corona Gallery gallery File LimoNCP42Bluebird07.jpg Toyota Limo NCP42 File Taksi blue bird.jpg Blue Bird Group Taxi gallery Category Toyota vehicles Limo modern auto stub ... more details
Gullage s was a Canada Canadian television sitcom , which aired on CBC Television from 1996 to 1997. The show starred Bryan Hennessey as Calvin Pope, a taxicab driver cab driver for Gullage s Taxi in St. John s, Newfoundland and Labrador St. John s , Newfoundland and Labrador . The cast also included Brenda Devine , Brian Best , Elizabeth Pickard , Frank Barry actor Frank Barry , Janis Spence , Jody Richardson , Mercedes Barry , Michael Wade and Philip Dinn . The show aired for a total of 18 episodes over two seasons. External links imdb title 0341804 Category Canadian television sitcoms Category CBC network shows Category 1996 Canadian television series debuts Category 1997 Canadian television series endings Category Television shows set in Newfoundland and Labrador Category Fictional taxicab drivers Category Television series produced in Newfoundland and Labrador Canada tv prog stub ... more details
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