Sentences with phrase «estimate huge numbers»

The use of zero also provides the ability to manipulate and estimate huge numbers.

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A new estimate of the number of habitable planets orbiting the most common type of stars in our galaxy could have huge consequences for the search for life.

It's estimated that the total number of newsletter subscribers is over 5 million at this time, so the potential for finding new readers can be huge.

One advantage of the BVA / KC scheme is that over the years a huge amount of data has been collected by the Animal Health Trust (AHT) which can now be used to calculate estimated breeding values for HD in those breeds which have participated in the scheme in sufficient numbers.

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

could relate to the opportunity of using «spatio - temporal averaged temperature anomalies» for estimating possible slight changes in a very complex ENERGY system exhibiting a huge number of delayed negative feedbacks (Is this the right indicator to use?).

But as I read, a few years back, each of those scientists came up with estimates (very huge numbers) of how much soil was in the earth and how much mixes with the atmosphere (again huge numbers — in the many millions of Giga tonnes).

That is obvious because over the past 50 years, the oceans appear to have gained 20 something raised to the 22nd power worth of Joules + / - 14.6 something raised to the 22nd power Joules, which is also assumed to be a huge number within a short time frame though we are not particularly sure what time frame is relevant, even though the impact of that 20 something raised to the 22nd power Joules produced roughly 0.09 C + / - 0.045 C increase in the mean value of the upper 2000 meters of the roughly 3600 meter deep oceans over the past 50 something years based on an imbalance estimate of 0.6Wm - 2 + / -0.4 which replaces the previous 0.9 + / - 0.15 Wm - 2 estimate which had a 95 % confidence level.

The Forest Service last estimated some 66 million dead trees in the Sierra Nevada based on aerial surveys — it's not a huge number compared to the entire region, but the dead trees aren't spread out evenly across the mountain range.

When there are a huge number of claims, the deadline may force some to make a rough first estimate.