Sentences with phrase «error of only»

Thus an error of only about 10 percent in temperature corresponds to an error of 34.4 percent in energy flow.
During Europe's Dark Ages, the Maya were so scientifically advanced they were able to plot the path of Venus - an elusive planet that is by turns a morning and evening star with an error of only 14 seconds per year.
Measurements on some 50 grains of zircon from the gneiss rocks found in Canada showed them to be 3.962 billion years old, with a margin of error of only three million years.
The best ones measure time with an error of only 1 in 1 billion billion: after ticking for 32 billion years, they would be just 1 second off.
In both cases, CovertBand's data could be used to decipher repetitive movements such as arm - pumping, walking or pelvic tilts to a range of up to 6 meters from the smartphone, with a positional error of only 8 to 18 centimeters.
In the late 1990s the Hubble Space Telescope Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale refined the value of the Hubble constant to within an error of only 10 percent, accomplishing one of the telescope's key goals.

Not exact matches

Still, credit bureau reports do have some potential for error, so small businesses should not necessarily use them as the only source of consumer credit information.
The challenge was that the IOC's digital archive was itself incomplete: it had only a rudimentary collection of historical materials — and some of those materials, especially older, pre-digital samples, contained errors.
He started telling me about JavaScript and a site called Nitrous.io and how he can write 50 functions and maybe only two of them could be error - free.
Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.
Alexander writes of a presenter who not only acknowledged an insurmountable technical delay, but turned it into a teachable moment by incorporating the error into the presentation itself.
That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.
If you have already anticipated this and put processes in place to minimize this risk of an error, this should only be a rare occurrence.
Vlieghe told the committee: «I'm never confident of any forecast, and I think the big thing that we risk missing here is that every time there is what we call a forecast error — which means the outturn is different from the central projection — to think that «Well if only we'd had a better model we wouldn't have made that forecast error
Taking appropriate action like this quickly following an error can not only reduce harm but also win your brand a degree of goodwill, as this case study of an excellent response to a social media mistake makes clear.
The latter feature helped one restaurant catch a supplier error that had the restaurant paying for boxes of 20 hamburger patties but receiving boxes that contained only 18.
These three «errors» only scratch the surface of the article, which covers other common bugbears of language pedants, including further vs. farther, nauseated vs. nauseous, and the so - called misuse of literally.
I know that getting here required many hours writing algorithms, studying computer architectures, learning new languages, fighting your way through problem sets, and holding your breath to see if your code compiles with no errors (and hopefully only a couple of warnings).
However, only in 2009 - 10 do the errors in the economic forecast account for a significant portion of the error in the residual deficit forecast.
To do that successfully only works if we avoid mistakes — unforced errors — that interrupt the power of compounding» Ira Rothberg
Trivially, a strategy of never hedging would completely eliminate our Type II errors - we would always track market advances, but only at the cost of quadrupling the depth of our worst losses.
Get your spelling and grammar right: a business letter should be written to impress your audience or investors and grammatical blunders and spelling errors will only succeed in doing the opposite of that.
I used to be guilty of this myself, but it is not only a serious error but also a limiting thought process.
The long side outperformed the market by 35 basis points per month, with a tracking error volatility of only 5.7 percent, for a realized information ratio of 0.75.
In a posting on the publishing site Medium, Waymo said the theft only came to light because of an error.
Not only is this process out of date, it is also slower, less comprehensive and prone to error.
The errors in entering the trade are very low in the case of the binary trading as there is only one action which needs to be taken which is to open the trade and the rest is being done by the software.
The purpose was to identify the count of broken links (404 errors only) pointing out to 3rd party references.
Some errors in the Security System may only be discovered after a failure in the system's safekeeping and storage of the Trust's Bitcoins, which could result in the theft, loss or damage of the Trust's assets.
While coal is believed to be about 300 millions years old, it contains substantial amounts of Carbon - 14 which has a half - life of approximately 5730, with a margin of error + / - 40 years, and can only trace age back to approximately 50,000 years.
That is the only explicit statement of the trinity and it was added by Erasmus in the 16th century!!!! This is just the a small small example of the errors in the bible.
Maybe because using the words and actions of Jesus is the only way to show the hypocritical rightwingers the error of their ways.
Add further Arendt's «self - contradictory» statements on major themes, and what one ends up with is an assertion that Arendt is guilty not only of empirical error but also rhetorical calamity.
It was Thomas Paine, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, intellectual, philosopher, and writer, who said: «It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.»
Only a book that contains errors, tells of your god.
With 64 percent responding that churches had not done enough, minority Protestants were the only denomination to not show a division within the margin of error.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another, men with men working unseemliness, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was due.28 And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 without understanding, covenant - breakers, without natural affection, unmerciful: 32 who, knowing the ordinance of God, that they that practise such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also consent with them that practise them.
Only the true word of god, the one that became flesh, Jesus, shows us how god really is and how to see and deal with the human / error sides of the bible.
Each subsequent age contributes something (even if it be only through errors to be confuted) toward a deepening ofour understanding of the truths of the faith.
Taking identity claims literally is the great error to be avoided at all costs, and only the proper metaphysics can prevent combustible mixtures of the supernatural with the natural.
Those dangers can be overcome only by the realization that in speaking of more abundant life, Jesus is not proposing to free us by making us richer; he is proposing to set life free from precisely that sort of error.
Many have suspected — even a few church fathers, like Cyril of Alexandria — that the Greek word kamelon (camel) might be a scribal error for kamilon (a heavy rope, a nautical cable), if only because the latter seems to make for a somewhat more symmetrical trope.
when one recognizes the errors... then they can change... you however are coming from other direction with this judging about INTENTIONS of the people who want to pray... you assume they all do it only to be seen and such... man..
159:4.9 «But the greatest error of the teaching about the Scriptures is the doctrine of their being sealed books of mystery and wisdom which only the wise minds of the nation dare to interpret.
The myth declared historical — critical method to be the only true way to read the New Testament, and dismissed all other modes of reading (particularly the despised errors of allegory) as «precritical.»
... Not only can there be no conflict between faith and reason, they also support each other since right reason demonstrates the foundations of the faith and, illumined by its light, pursues the science of divine things, while faith frees and protects reason from errors and provides it with manifold insights.
I can only assume that my name on the registration list is the result of some sort of clerical error on the part of the BioLogos foundation.
She disagrees with Lawrence's view that Jesus suffered from the error of finding in love only that which gives and never receives.
Unfortunately, the New Evangelization here in the United States is often presented in contrast only to the first half of each of these dichotomies, set off against those errors that I am arguing are least relevant to our own cultural circumstances.
For the error is just this, that in spite of all his advance acceptance of suffering, the sufferer wins nothing that is eternal but only becomes terrified in a temporal sense.
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