2017年6月30日 · in twos. in groups of two. Share. Improve this answer. Follow edited Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40. Community Bot ...

2014年12月26日 · OED does use the spelling twos: A.2.d. two and two, two by two, formerly also by two and two: in groups or sets of two; two at a time; by twos. BUT you're not talking about the word two. You're talking about homophones of the word two — to, too and two. You can't say "There are three twos", because there aren't.

2017年10月9日 · 3) Two twos make four. [informal speech, not arithmetic, cards, for example] Correction: Two twos make four. [plural nouns take a plural verb] The plural of two is twos, just like threes and fours, etc. "I have two twos, an ace and two kings." [poker, five cards per hand] "There are only three fours in this deck. One is missing."

2018年5月18日 · I am a British English native speaker, and I've heard a few references in American media to broadcasts of "x (typically traffic) on the 2s". Google does not reveal any useful information on exactly...

2016年4月16日 · The common saying two is company, three's a crowd is often associated with a romantic context: . Prov. A way of asking a third person to leave because you want to be alone with someone.

Twos' complement = complement of a number of twos (plural) One's complement = complement of a single 1; Ones' complement = complement of a number of ones (plural) The Wikipedia articles (Ones' complement, Two's complement) describe two's complement and ones' complement as two different mathematical operations. Two's complement is related to a ...

2022年7月19日 · The exact sequence twos and ones and ones and twos doesn't even occur once in all the millions of books indexed in Google Books. And it only gets 3 hits on the entire Internet (Google obviously hasn't yet indexed this new ELU question itself!

2019年12月18日 · Donald Knuth, that doyen of computer science, says in Art of Computer Programming, Vol 2.. Detail-oriented readers and copy-editors should notice the position of the apostrophe in terms like "two's complement" and "ones' complement": a two's complement number is complemented with respect to a single power of 2, whereas a ones' complement …

2017年7月2日 · Blues and twos create an interesting atmosphere at night. Although British, and arguably informal, blues and twos refers to the lights and sirens together. blues and twos NOUN. British informal 1 The flashing lights and siren used on a police car or other emergency vehicle when responding to an incident. Also later "on (also under) blues and twos".

I know “by ones and twos” is applied to the case more than “by one and one.” When I consulted New Japanese English Dictionary published by Japanese publisher (Kenkyusha Publishing), I found the translation – ‘in threes and fives.’ I suspect if this is a literal translation of 3-3-5-5, and not standard English phrase.