Looking back, Jackson might have been doing Microsoft and certainly shareholders a favor by trying todivide the company intoparts, each of which could have competed in its own markets without inhibition of the others.
Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem todivide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.
Should it be impossible todivide the number of cardinals present into three equal parts, for the validity of the election one additional vote is required.