Sentences with phrase «good approximation»

These previews are a very good approximation of what the final item will look like but they are not exact.

This was unusual, since the variational approach normally only gives good approximations for the lowest energy levels.

The exact number per year for the last 200 years is unknown, but Heald and his assistants were able to arrive at a pretty good approximation by relying on the number of titles available for each year in WorldCat, a library catalog that contains the complete listings of 72,000 libraries around the world.

Engineers utilize the ideal gas laws as it is easier to work with and provides as a tool to get good approximations of real gas behavior.

Although our estimates are the best available and provide good approximations of relative student performance across districts, states and countries, they are not exact.

Fourth, the economy of caritas must provide the necessary (but not sufficient) cause for the polity of caritas, whose best approximation in history so far is democracy under the rule of law.

Notice, for Segal, it is a «surety» that all religions are at best approximations of what may await us, even if that is nothingness.

But to a pretty good approximation for current purposes, the photon just keeps on going, headed for space (or a GHG molecule, whichever comes first).

Ramanujan and others after him found formulas to predict the value of any p (n) with good approximation, for example.

It is getting past the «getting started» phase where better approximations become necessary.

All dogmatic creeds are approximations; these approximations form a humus from which better approximations grow.»

All this leads up to your (& David's) definition of TRUTH as «our tentative best approximation of reality.»

The researchers» database of evaluated clusters may not contain exact matches for any of those specifications, but it will contain clusters that are extremely good approximations.

The fact that climate simulations improve in a reasonably consistent and comprehensible way suggests that scientists are making successively better approximations to the real climate system.

Rob — We have to make allowances for model error for both papers, but even with these, the models are likely to be give us a reasonably good approximation of how the climate would actually behave — their hindcasting results have tended to confirm this.

This remains valid for the not too small (quantum mechanical) and not too massive or fast (relativistic) domains of nature, and so remains a perfectly good approximation for understanding snooker balls, the motion of the solar system, and even the motion of fluids.

«They're a collection of rumor - informed best approximations,» reads the report.

If we keep in mind the fundamental limitations of data — for example, that test scores are at best an approximation of learning and that context and implementation do matter — we are much more likely to discern reliable findings.

Such ideas were good approximations in the past.

I reckon this is a pretty good approximation of what the first batch of next - gen consoles will be capable of, but, if this gen is anything to go by, there will be a lot of optimization to happen.

However, the reality is that these figures are probably a very good approximation of where sales are in the UK (with the caveat as The Bookseller notes, that self - publishers are not represented *):

What we have here is a good approximation of the world's balance of payments.

The chain also launched an iPad app just a few months earlier that included a 3D «realistic pizza builder» that gives customers a better approximation of what their pizza will look like in real life.

While this may not be exact for every sales situation, it is a good approximation of the buyers a sales person is likely to encounter.

The cupboard - making analogy was very clever, and is a good approximation of how many people see the Bible.

The idea was to work» nonviolently and within the constraints of Lutheran two - kingdoms warnings against illusions of earthly new Jerusalems» toward a politics that might provide a better approximation of the kingdom of God proleptically revealed in the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth.

Science has given us a very good approximation of the age of the earth — and that age is in the billions of years.

This is certainly a good approximation.

I think the administration has made a best approximation at a single payer system, which would not have passed the legislature but I think they have a flaw when they conflate the tax power with the policy details.

Knowing what the «best approximation» of reality is would first require knowing what is real — in order to judge the accuracy of approximations.

I hold a pragmatic definition of «Truth»: «Truth» is the best approximation of reality that is useful in a given domain.

What you're identifying as a good approximation of anger is really the impatience with the world's injustices, and the will, the kinetic energy to fix it.