Sentences with phrase «arbitrary numbers rather»

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Common Cause's Susan Lerner, says that number appears to be rather arbitrary.

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.

I'd rather play a brilliant game for five hours — particularly as my spare time is becoming increasingly limited and valuable — than go through the boring process of retracing my steps, collecting items through the same levels for another five, just so the developer can meet some arbitrary number of hours or fear being told their game is too short.

Rather than define a somewhat arbitrary threshold for a La Niña / El Niño year (i.e. based on the size of the index and number of months exceeding a certain threshold) or limiting the analysis to one ENSO index, I first took the average of the three indices mentioned above (ONI, MEI, and SOI, accounting for the fact that positive SOI indicates La Niña conditions while the opposite is true for ONI and MEI).

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.

At the same time, this approach eliminates software miscommunications and gives a user a theoretically infinite number of «profiles,» rather than an arbitrary limit.

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.

That being said, the $ 100K number does seem rather arbitrary.