Sentences with phrase «good approximation of»

For instance the sun is a good approximation of a BB.

Again, I did not say the sun was a BB, what I did say was: «For instance the sun is a good approximation of a BB.».

It is a good approximation of black body radiation from a source at approximately 5880 K.

Getting back to the main point of the paper, it should be obvious from the figure above that the first equation is not a good approximation of the second, because the entrainment term is not a major player and it certainly is not acting to balance the buoyancy acceleration.

This approximation is artificial, but does a good approximation of a very complex process.

Assuming the start point of the OLS wouldn't change much with more data (a safe assumption) the endpoint of the 1970 - 1997 OLS is therefore a good approximation of the limit.

Addendum — Modeling the Earth's surface as a black body in infrared wavelengths is a very good approximation of reality (didn't we discuss this once before?)

Of course if you have two sets of scalar or vector values, and then you perform simple arithmetic calculation, the result is MADE UP of two sets of data into a new one, in this case, surprising good approximation of the natural temperature variability in the North Hemisphere.

Not to mention that taking the biggest number and the smallest number and adding them together then dividing them by 2 should give a good approximation of the average of the total numbers.

Given that on this time scale the warming pulse is essentially vertical, it's easy to modify the plot to be a good approximation of the trajectory if the consensus is actually so badly wrong that it is more than double the real sensitivity.

Also, James Hansen successfully predicted in 1981 the trend of the past several decades of global warming, including a good approximation of the noise around the trend.

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.

We consider EIIB's current net equity a good approximation of intrinsic value.

This will give us a very good approximation of average costs.

Still, credit scores work off of essentially the same data from your credit report and your score from Credit Karma will be a good approximation of what your FICO score would be.

The idea behind those headlines is that the average sales / earnings estimates of analysts is a good approximation of what the market expects (which is debatable).

That's a fairly good approximation of how a bond portfolio has likely behaved over 17 years.

That said, a lot of internals are almost identical to the 1.75, so things I've previously said about 1.75 are a good approximation of the XO - 3.

Not quite funky The 2010 Honda Fit's appearance is a good approximation of its overall character — it's different without being idiosyncratic, accurately preparing you for what's inside.

At the moment the electric Defender isn't exactly tearing through the Amazon rainforest, but the work it's doing is nevertheless a good approximation of how quite a lot of Defenders are used in real life — at least in terms of speed and duration of use.

And the result is that even though there are differences among species and even though populations are impacted by unpredictable forces, we can get away with a simple zero - sum - game as a good approximation of reality.

One blogger sampled it and wrote: «Hákarl is in fact a good approximation of the sound your throat makes as it contorts and constricts in a desperate attempt to regurgitate the chunks of fetid fish.»

Multiply these two numbers together to get a good approximation of the total number of seeds.

The 4,000 - odd «words» in the dictionary are chosen to offer a good approximation of all the grids in the training data.

The standard drop test is a good approximation of linear forces, or direct hits, but out on the field most hits are not head - on.

Their path may often be a good approximation of the shortest path, but there is no good reason to think that they will always produce such an approximation, much less the optimal solution for all placements of an indefinite number of flowers.

There is good information on the number of persons naturalized in each state going back more or less indefinitely, which when compared to the number of foreign born people in each state can be used to determine the percentage of foreign born adults in each state who are not U.S. citizens, and extrapolated to the county level foreign born statistics to get a good approximation of the number of adult non-citizens in each county in the U.S. Just under half of foreign born persons are naturalized U.S. citizens.

The first step in establishing an alkaline diet is to assess your current pH. A good approximation of tissue pH is easily obtained by testing the pH of your saliva or first - morning urine.

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.

@ Kenrick I need some help with the above formula because you really can not divide eternity by a cardinal number however we could fold eternity 7 times and get a good approximation of the disproportionate risk Chuckles takes by living only for today.

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

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

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

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.

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

Substitutions for pimentón include hot paprika and New Mexican ground red chile, but for a better approximation of the smokiness of the pimentón, mix in some ground chipotle chile.

«What we tried to do in our current Science study is to come up with a model that's a better approximation of the New Madrid seismic zone.»

The prospect that they may offer a better approximation of the human gut than standard lab mice is enticing to some investigators.

Pantone has a colour called Riverside that I think is the best approximation of this shade.

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.

Amazon says the Voyage offers a better approximation of print than has ever been available on an e-reader, but for me, it's far better than that.

When used together, duration and convexity offer a better approximation of the percentage of price change resulting from a particular change in a bond's yield than using duration alone.

Split the differences and you have good approximations of the 20 % and 80 % probabilities.

An ETF's market price can actually be a better approximation of the aggregate value of the underlying bonds than its own NAV, and highly liquid bond ETFs can perform price discovery for the bonds they hold.

FCF / EV might be the best approximation of EV / EBIT but is affected by the non-stationarity of WC movements.

* Prices reflect our best approximation of low and high season rates and are subject to change at any time.

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.

Sometimes these guesses are good approximations of the future; often they are not.

Great works in science, and great men of science are such because they see further and clearer through the gloom of human ignorance, to a better approximation of truth.

Pooling all the cross-dated pre-fire stems at a particular site gives a better approximation of maximum time - since - fire in the form of a bell - shaped or skewed - to - left distribution of the number of residual, cross-dated pre-fire stems going back in time from the actual date of fire (figure 5).