Sentences with phrase «arbitrary numbers because»

I'm using arbitrary numbers because I'd like to see if there's a formula I could use - rather than the massive spreadsheet that's inevitably prone to error owing to the many calculation steps.

Not exact matches

«Yes, it's arbitrary because it's a big round number,» says Butterfield, 41.

Because of all these opportunities for arbitrary decision, only a small number of those convicted of capital crimes are actually executed.

I selfishly want him to come back next year and hit 1,000 points, because even though the number is pretty arbitrary I think it matters to the Hall of Fame.

The arbitrary thresholds your refer to are a problem, because they will have a distorting effect on the election result, especially if a large number of voters support minor parties, and therefore have their votes discarded when the final count is done.

I don't really like reporting on box office numbers because they're arbitrary and impossible to corroborate.

in the face of rising productivity and affluence, older workers find themselves disadvantaged in their efforts to retain employment, and especially to regain employment when displaced from jobs; the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and certain otherwise desirable practices may work to the disadvantage of older persons; the incidence of unemployment, especially long - term unemployment with resultant deterioration of skill, morale, and employer acceptability is, relative to the younger ages, high among older workers; their numbers are great and growing; and their employment problems grave; the existence in industries affecting commerce, of arbitrary discrimination in employment because of age, burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce.

While the level of a company's stock price is arbitrary, because it can be manipulated by firms via adjustments in the number of shares outstanding, it's been well - documented that individual investors are influenced by nominal prices.

We don't recommend either one of these approaches because they use somewhat arbitrary numbers.

Because that knowledge is not firm for all nutrients, the numbers are somewhat arbitrary.

In this spirit, many of his works are sequences showing attempts at accomplishing an arbitrary goal, such as Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (1973), in which the artist attempted to do just that, photographing the results, and eventually selecting the «best out of 36 tries», with 36 being the determining number just because that is the standard number of shots on a roll of 35 mm film.

The total number of typhoons might actually go up a bit because of the promotion of some tropical storms to typhoons, but of course the distinction between these classes of cyclone is arbitrary.

Because the Houghton Land Use change Carbon Flux data appears arbitrary, and even the IPCC had to acknowledge that his numbers might be overestimated.

Thus, we did not try to make this a «top ten» list, because it is rather silly to fit the news, or the science, or the stuff the Earth does in a given year into an arbitrary number of events.

«I'm not a fan of this planetary index because it mixes a lot of different numbers together in an essentially arbitrary way - therefore, it's hard to know what exactly is meant by a 50 percent loss of vertebrates over the last 40 years.»

While it is good that the Board has adopted the «significant contributing factor» test for causation for both chronic and traumatic mental stress, this is not adequate to ensure equality because the policy imposes a number of other arbitrary limits on mental injuries.

I'm going to explain and show for the next one they issue me, but I just wondered on the side if these «impose [d] monetary sanctions» were regulated because I called the number at the bottom of the superior court notice and the lady who answered seemed like she didn't know what the cost for such an «offense» was, but stated that if I sent $ 100 check to them, that would do it, which seemed arbitrary and suspicious; i.e., the whole first not knowing and then coming up with a round figure.

And the reason why your daily step goals are constantly changing, rather than striving for «10K» every day, is because Pebble wants people to use their own personal bests as guideposts rather than an arbitrary number.

Because for years I threw around arbitrary numbers, like «I want to be a millionaire,» without any idea as to «why.»