Sentences with phrase «certain fraction of the time»

Given the same hand, the program will not always take the same action, but instead will bet a certain fraction of the time and fold a certain fraction of the time.

In the 1982 experiment, if the photons «rolled doubles» more than a certain fraction of the time, it meant that particles violated something called local realism: the idea that influences between particles ripple through spacetime like waves (locality) and that particles have hidden nonrandom properties (realism).

Not exact matches

With keyless locks, you can give entry codes to employees, revoke access, lock doors remotely, and even monitor who entered your business at a certain time — at a fraction of the cost or complexity of magnetic swipe card systems.

But a provision inserted in the final bill also allows the deduction to be claimed up to a certain fraction of the company's depreciable property — property like buildings that lose their value over time.

One boy said, «all times is is adding one number a certain number of times»... then I went home and figured out all the multiplication tables... I wondered what the fourth graders were doing... and couldn't understand why Kindergartners couldn't do fractions too.

At this time, only a very small fraction of turtles eggs are surviving to hatch, and the area's sea turtles are headed towards certain extinction.

«A timestamp is a sequence of characters or encoded information identifying when a certain event occurred, usually giving date and time of day, sometimes accurate to a small fraction of a second.»

Vacation time is typically accrued at a certain rate during the year so that you earn a fraction of a vacation day for every week you work.