to levelize fuel costs across a period

No, said the latter touchily, "I be not agreed.

Some who witnessed the 1966 Leonid meteor storm said they felt as if they needed to grip the ground, so strong was the impression of Earth plowing along through space, fording the meteoroid stream.

If — for a homogeneous system of linear equations — there are V unknowns and R (linearly independent) equations then, according to the rank-nullity theorem, the solution space is N equals V − R dimensional.