Sentences with phrase «doing back of envelope»

Can you even begin to do the back of the envelope math for how many times you've bathed, diapered, and sunscreened your kids?

I've previously done a back of the envelope exercise to assess the impact of an AREO bankruptcy.

Gordon Walker (@ 115): August 5th, 2011 at 6:36 pm BobC: I did a back of the envelope calculation yesterday and got similar results to yours.

BobC: I did a back of the envelope calculation yesterday and got similar results to yours.

Um, you ever do a back of the envelope estimate of that probability for a box containing, say, one whole mole of molecules?

e9 (if I did my back of the envelope right).

Not exact matches

And as you can see from my story, a business plan doesn't have to be a lengthy, well - thought - out proposal — it can be as simple as some notes in a notebook, or a scribble on the back of an envelope.»

As prospects turn the envelope over, copy on the back of the envelope could help clinch the decision to open it, so don't let that valuable real estate go to waste.

You might even start doing a little back of the envelope math on run rates.

Musk acknowledged that these are back - of - the - envelope calculations, but he finished this with saying «I'm not saying they're true or that they will occur, but I bet that they do occur.»

I did some back - of - the - envelope calculation to figure out your yield.

Let's do some back - of - the - envelope math.

NOTE, however, that a quick back - of - the - envelope analysis we did a few years back showed that teams coming off of bye - weeks were an «expected».500 ATS — so we believe that all coaches / teams are not «created equal» in terms of this angle.

It doesn't matter if you've scribbled on the back of a receipt or envelope.

I didn't have a back - of - an - envelope plan to be an MP.

Green Party U.S. co-founder Howie Hawkins has been doing back - of - the - envelope calculations that conclude if 1 of every 5 Sanders supporters votes Green in November, the party will get there.

Scottish ministers insist # 2.5 bn will be enough, but Menzies Campbell says sums were «done on the back of an envelope»

Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Lib Dem leader and foreign affairs spokesman, said: «The SNP have done their sums on the back of an envelope.

Ridgwell told New Scientist he had done «back - of - the - envelope» calculations that show that given the current price of carbon on the European carbon market, these credits could be worth $ 50 billion a year over 100 years.

But it was Frisch and Peierls who actually wrote pretty much on the backs of envelopes how you could do it.

«He did this back - of - the - envelope calculation to make this wild prediction — and it's dead - on, as far as we can tell,» Gladstone says.

«I think my main take - home from the article is that the techniques are pretty coarse, but it does give us a back - of - the - envelope estimation.»

In an idle moment David Korasick, a graduate fellow in the Strader and Jez labs and first author on the PNAS article, did a back - of - the - envelope calculation to put a number on the complexity of the system they were trying to understand.

If we do some back - of - the - envelope math and average the state's and the Ingersoll estimates together, it means that 85,000 current Illinois teachers will leave the profession in the next ten years with little retirement savings to show for their experience.

Districts wouldn't even have to foot the bill; I did some back - of - the - envelope calculations based on the 2011 Annual Report and found that with the savings picked up by the decreased recruitment pool and corps size (going with Wendy Kopp's «applicant pool fell in half» and your 3000 number, respectively), TFA could afford to pay each first - year CM a ~ $ 23,000 stipend (modulo one - time costs related to changing the structure of the organization so dramatically).

Let's do a little back - of - the - envelope calculation: Assuming that the heating unit has an efficiency close to 1.0 and that automotive diesel has an energy density of ~ 39 MJ / l which translates to ~ 10kWh / l.

I did a few back - of - the - envelope calculations a couple of years ago, and came up with the conclusion that the market for good books is so far from saturation that you could regard it as wide open and untapped — the competition is not from other writers, but from things like TV and video games.

Back of the Envelope 6 % shows what you need to do to withdraw 6 % (plus inflation) indefinitely.

Of course, these figures are only back - of - the - envelope estimates meant to give you a general sense of how you might do, not guarantees of the eventual size of your nest egOf course, these figures are only back - of - the - envelope estimates meant to give you a general sense of how you might do, not guarantees of the eventual size of your nest egof - the - envelope estimates meant to give you a general sense of how you might do, not guarantees of the eventual size of your nest egof how you might do, not guarantees of the eventual size of your nest egof the eventual size of your nest egof your nest egg.

«In one case I did a back - of - the - envelope calculation... and realized that if I used bank Z instead of bank X, I could have gotten $ 400 or $ 500 more dollars,» says Malkin.

I did some back - of - the - envelope calculations and to me, it was worth paying about 0.5 % extra in fees.

i) If you assume that kind of adjustment in age, back of envelope that could imply over a third of the current insureds are still alive at 100 years of age — do you really think that's likely?

When I do that (in my back - of - the envelope way, mind you) I come up with a MAXIMUM value at year - end 2012 for Enzon's Pegintron royalty stream of under $ 60 million.

Don't do this on the back of an envelope: it's worth hiring a fee - only financial planner to run the numberdo this on the back of an envelope: it's worth hiring a fee - only financial planner to run the numbers.

Let's just do a back - of - the - envelope here: Taking the same approach as my original thesis (and using the latest 10Q / Q1 earnings release & 10K), Alphabet has $ 109 billion in net cash & marketable / non-marketable securities — implying an ex-cash $ 643 billion market cap.

I know you do not want to be stock - specific but it would be great if you could provide examples of some back - of - the - envelope calculations using fictional companies.

My next step was to do a couple of back - of - the - envelope calculations as to what might be worst case scenarios.

Indeed, her survey of Maine residents who feed outdoor cats leads her to conclude that this population may be no more than 10 — 15 percent of the pet cat population — which, if one does a back - of - the - envelope calculation using survey data from the American Pet Products Association and census data for the number of households in Maine, would mean something like 18,700 — 28,000 unowned cats.

Even though there is a great deal of emphasis on running in Dying Light, it wouldn't be a complete zombie game without a combat mechanic to back up each interaction and it does a fantastic job of pushing that envelope forward as well.

And I always drew something cool on the front of the envelope because they sometimes featured mailed in art in the magazine as well... but alas, my drawings never got published either... but what I did get back every time was a friendly letter from a GPC that (usually) answered my questions and gave me the «power» to be a Nintendo pro.

Now just sort of doing some of back of the envelope calculations based on the midpoint of your net bookings guidance you're looking about $ 136 million of revenue.

Mark Powell is known for his portraits and illustrations of people and birds on vintage envelopes dating as far back as 1756, and with his most recent series, the images do not disappoint.

Out of sympathy for the shelterers, Moore does not make any direct sketches underground, instead taking descriptive notes on the back of an envelope before returning to his studio to draw from memory.

If we had done a simple back - of - the - envelope estimate, surely someone would have criticized us for not using a climate model... Besides we also looked into regional patterns and the sea - ice response in our paper, something one can not do without a climate model.

I did some detailed guessing in a prior post, but would rather see more solid figures than my own back of the envelope attempt.

And what you got ta do in this case (IMO) is look at the actual numbers of molecules involved, in a rough back - of - the - envelope sort of way.

A simple calculation for the 19th and 18th centuries is quickly and easily done using results from their table 1 and figures 1 - 2: A back - of - the envelope calculation based on the 19th and 18th centuries suggests that the transfer functions now would yield an increase of almost 1K for the period 1900 - 2000, most of which should have been realized by 1980!

Understanding the feedbacks is of course useful and should also be done (and it is underway), but a simple back of the envelope calculation demonstrates clearly they can not have had a significant effect over the 20th C compared to the rise due to industrial emissions.

I do not think our theories are strong enough to resolve this on the backs of envelopes or on desktops.

Unfortunately, Hudson didn't compute a temperature change, so I kind of had to back - of - the - envelope a value from his results.