Sentences with phrase «even tenths of a percent»

Even tenths of a percent matter given compound interest and time.

Even tenths of a percent matter given compound interest and time.

Not exact matches

Even after you account for the higher expense ratio and the fact that its distribution yield is a few tenths of a percent lower, the outperformance is still meaningful.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

Even then the exact cause remained obscure, since the sun's brightness varies by just one - tenth of a percent.

Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.

«There is a lack of strategy from political actors about how emissions from these industries should be reduced, even though these industries are responsible for a tenth of emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe and nearly 20 percent in Sweden,» says Johan Rootzén.

Following the revival of ACS WFC during the Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) in 2009 May, CTE corrections are now typically several tenths of a percent and should be included, even for our bright standard star observations that utilize a standard reference point which is only 512 rows from the CCD amplifier B readout corner.

Under even the most conservative assumptions, the proposed STC program will affect approximately one tenth of one percent of the current state and local spending on public education.

``... moving from a 5 percent to a 10 percent down payment on loans that already meet strong underwriting and product standards reduces the default experience by an average of only two - or three - tenths of one percent... Increasing the minimum down payment even further to 20 percent... (creates) small improvement in default performance of about eight - tenths of one percent on average.»

Surprisingly, less than one tenth of one percent of debtors who file for bankruptcy even attempt to have their student loans discharged.»

«Savings accounts earn less than a tenth of a percent, and even CDs don't keep up with inflation.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

If it were possible to measure effects on humanity, bitcoin would probably rank even smaller than low tenths of a percent.