Sentences with phrase «arbitrary numbers in»

I'm not saying you should change from rational forecasting to throwing a few arbitrary numbers in a hat and picking one, then dividing that number equally among your sales reps. I'm saying you should consider each rep's experience and performance as you create an overall sales number and individual quotas.

Don't let an arbitrary number in your head back you into the corner of inaction.

Not exact matches

As you mentioned in your post, it's relative to your site, not some arbitrary number.

In order to add blocks to the Blockchain, a miner must map an input data set (i.e., the Blockchain, plus a block of the most recent Bitcoin Network transactions and an arbitrary number called a «nonce») to a desired output data set of predetermined length (the «hash value») using the SHA - 256 cryptographic hash algorithm.

God could have willed to order creation in an infinite number of other ways, since God's will is unbounded and arbitrary.

Also a number of our philosophers of history, in their discouragement, reduce the unfolding of events to the mathematical application of an arbitrary axiomatic system of their own invention.

Insurance companies are not in compliance with the law if they have arbitrary rules for a set number of consultations or certain age of the baby.

A de Blasio spokesperson said Flanagan's proposal «would add an arbitrary, unnecessary and restrictive cap to the New York City property tax code — which already has a number of existing caps — and cost the city billions, resulting in severe cuts to vital services such as public safety and education.»

Zeid Raad Al Hussein condemned April's church bombings, but told a news conference in Geneva that the «state of emergency, the massive number of detentions, reports of torture and continued arbitrary arrests — all of this we believe facilitates radicalisation in prisons», according to Reuters news agency.

While that number, 764, seems a little arbitrary, Bloomberg said it would be a record number of weddings performed in the Big Apple in a single day.

On the controversial issue of raising the minimum hourly wage in New York State to $ 15, Astorino said it «will definitely put businesses out of business,» and added, «Fifteen dollars an hour is a completely arbitrary number with real negative impacts.»

What seems universally overlooked in casual conversation is that, much in the way of Gödel's theorem, Church and Turing answered the computability question in the negative: Algorithms can not compute all numbers or functions to arbitrary precision.

In this study, the authors have solved the equation describing the effect of solid friction on granular materials for an arbitrary number of dimensions.

Conservation triage, as Possingham and others call it, has some commonsense appeal and gives decision makers numbers to latch onto in a field where choices can seem arbitrary.

There is a very good chance this may be more than you think you should be, but it's time to let go of an arbitrary scale number or size and instead take the time to heal yourself fully and let your body get healthy and settle in where it feels best.

Instead of estimating your maintenance intake and then subtracting an arbitrary number, you set your calorie intake with fat loss in mind from the beginning.

It's a somewhat arbitrary number, but it's about the cost of a chai latte — in other words, a frivolous throw - away cost.

I'm not interested in a capsule wardrobe per se — I'm not sure I understand the arbitrary limit of using only X number of clothes.

As a matter of course in all Bethesda games, I've immediately removed the weight restrictions as I find juggling an arbitrary number to be as immersion - breaking as the ability to carry 15 axes, five suits of armor, hundreds of scrolls, and thousands of gold pieces simultaneously.

The number of courses barely number half that available in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 and the career mode is skeletal, at best, and completely devoid of context at worst; your only real reward for playing through the arbitrary disjointed «career» mode is a static congratulation screen and the high stakes sensation of battling the masters for golfing supremacy is all but missing here.

The cheap - looking Thumbelina leaps from musical number to musical number, its secondary characters are animated even more poorly than its main characters, there's little consistency in its anthropomorphizing, and the tribulations and resolutions of Thumbelina and crew are so arbitrary as to inhibit any tension.

The arbitrary cap on the number of charter schools that can open in New York continues to prohibit growth.

Yet given that achievement gaps are present in schools that are both high - and low - performing overall, a policy that restricts subgroup accountability to an arbitrary number or a percentage of schools — such as only the lowest - performing schools in a state — is not enough to address existing achievement disparities.

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.

So, as you state in this reply, those writers who have put their work on Kindle which then is read by an arbitrary number of people, are now authors.

Numbers such as «$ 6 million in 2012» have been hinted at for future pots, but — again — this is an arbitrary number seemingly unattached to other factors: downloads, rankings, retail cost of the book, anything.

I look more toward publishers, who either are requiring books to be repurchased after an arbitrary number of uses or, in some cases (for example, Scribner or Simon and Schuster), aren't making new books available for purchase by libraries at all.

I continue to be shocked at the number of people who send me a contract with arbitrary dates of their choosing without ever consulting with me about my interest and availability in narrating their book!

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.

Saving 15 % or 20 % of your income each month will go a lot further in the long run than some arbitrary number pulled out of thin air.

PS in your next article you might want to mention the Bank's posted rates are an arbitrary, fictitious number, that is only used in calculating the mortgage cancelation penalties.

One of these was an arbitrary limit on the number of stocks in my portfolio.

Given the simpler, mechanical nature of the Graham / Schloss approach, an arbitrary upper limit on the number of stocks in my portfolio seems unnecessary and probably raises my opportunity costs.

And that number, which in this case is money, is far more likely to get you in trouble if you aren't careful than some arbitrary percentage.

Features Nine Timeless Rules for Investing in Mutual Funds (and ETFs) Articles that propose some arbitrary number of rules for doing something can be surprisingly seductive.

The numbers might appear arbitrary, but, in the end, the discussion has to start someplace.

An arbitrary population cutoff was established at 3,000, meaning any town or city in Massachusetts that had a population below that number was eliminated from further analysis.

Of the Top 87 «greatest travel books of all time,» or 100 or 10 or 25 or whatever arbitrary number is being used, it is very rare to see a writer of color in the midst of all the White voices.

After all, how can anyone realistically generate an arbitrary number score for something like the quality of graphics without comparing the game side by side with every other game in existence, and then with all other games on platform, and then with all games in the genre, and then with games released only in recent history (so it's held to the same standard), and so on?

It's classic multiplayer hooks to keep you invested but in a way that doesn't feel as arbitrary as seeing a number go up — even though that's precisely what it is.

In Number 4 - 32, what appears to be an arbitrary assortment of bold and vivid colors actually adheres to a rational system.

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 filIn 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 filin 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 filin 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.

In the absence of any contextualizing label, however, the combination seems like an arbitrary provocation, something that might be said about any number of the pairings here.

About the other question, about arbitrary elements in his art, arbitrary, random and «found» need to be carefully compared and contrasted, but it needs to be pointed out that «found» elements play (found objects, colors, materials, number systems, etc.) were an important way around composition and other forms of expression.

In the chart below, selection of the 50 average sunspot number as a reference value is arbitrary, but serves to visually demonstrate the increase in solar activity over the last 50 yearIn the chart below, selection of the 50 average sunspot number as a reference value is arbitrary, but serves to visually demonstrate the increase in solar activity over the last 50 yearin solar activity over the last 50 years.

The quick and dirty way to check for that is to move one of the curves an arbitrary number of peaks laterally in either direction and see if the correlation changes significantly....

Do you find it odd that he was able to publish a paper in a respected journal, when that paper merely presented an arbitrary number?

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.

Indeed, the pledge of $ 100 billion by 2020 (from developed to developing countries) may be a nice round number for politicians to reference but it is, in fact, an arbitrary figure that is grounded in political, not scientific, analysis.

«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.»