Sentences with phrase «errors by an order of magnitude»

Improvements in methods and equipment, processes of maintenance and calibration as well as a vastly better understanding of measurement methods have reduced the measurement errors by an order of magnitude over those years.

Not exact matches

My error bars here are huge, but it seems to be the same order of magnitude that Stein was asked to spend by the states to get the recount effort started.

I checked the worst error that could be caused by persistent rounding and it was many orders of magnitude smaller than the discrepancy I was seeing.

Are you going to man up and admit your error, as you demanded of Victor, or are you not just wrong by over an order of magnitude in capacity and maybe, I du n no, two or three orders of magnitude in cost, but also a hypocrite?

(The «I think» was because I was hoping to extricate myself from CE for a while to finish off a paper explaining why climate sensitivity as currently defined can neither be measured nor estimated with an error bar less than 1 C per doubling, and proposing a different definition that shrinks the error bar by an order of magnitude.

However the ARGO errors are much much smaller than the pre-ARGO measurements (maybe by two orders of magnitude, one for each temperature reading and one for the sparseness of sampling?).

You want to dismiss these issues even though by doing so you introduce an error in the uncertainty reduction of ten orders of magnitude.

As you can see, we can't trust any individual data point to better than + / - 5 degs yet by taking the average of 100 data points the error drops by an order of magnitude to (The error falls as the square root of the number of data points) to give an accuracy of a fraction of a degree.

I'm guessing that monthly error will differ from month to month — but not by, say, orders of magnitude, or anything close to that much.

Despite the faux precision of naive fanatics — errors from satellite altimetry exceed annual sea level rise by an order of magnitude.

There can be no credible expectation that this tuning / calibration procedure can reduce the error by two orders of magnitude as required to measure changes of Earth's energy balance to an accuracy of 0.1 W / m2.»

I made a math error and was off by 3 orders of magnitude — the actual temperature change is 0.1 degrees, and I can easily see that as measureable.