On the national level, Norwell is a part of Massachusetts's 9th congressional district, and is currently represented by Bill Keating. The state's senior (Class II) member of the United States Senate, elected in 2013, is Ed Markey.
As it happens sin() and cos() are also functions. A function has another property: all calls to a function with the same parameters, should return the same result. A method, on the other hand, is a function that is related to an object in an object-oriented language. It has one implicit parameter: the object being acted upon (and it's state).
RPC vs RMI. The basic difference between RPC and RMI is that RPC is a mechanism that enables calling of a procedure on a remote computer while RMI is the implementation of RPC in java. RPC is language neutral but only supports primitive data types to be passed. On the other hand, RMI is limited to Java but allows passing objects.