Sentences with phrase «good first approximation»

With these caveats, however, the relative contribution to change in forcing is a good first approximation to the relative contribution to change in temperature.

Wouldn't it be a pretty good first approximation to model a one square meter of earth and the atmosphere above it with average albedo, average solar input, average cloud cover, etc?

In — to a good first approximation we can surely say it can't be transport but that didn't prevent people telling us, oh, it's all transport [laughs].»

This is a good first approximation, but we can quickly see boundary problems.

Picking up the equity in undistributed earnings of portfolio companies is a good first approximation of Industries» periodic wealth creation.

Not exact matches

In the case of stock market returns, if you plug in the results of the first calculator you'll find that the approximation isn't exact, but it's still pretty good.

What has been discovered... is that, on one main point at least (the choice between the three propositions), religion at its best was literally and philosophically right, and theology was but a first approximation, vitiated by ambiguities or inconsistencies.

He further granted that «Although I stress shared knowledge, and try to give an index to a first approximation of its contents, I do not propose in my book any best way of imparting that knowledge.

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

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.

Well, that's not all of what private equity does, but to a first approximation, that's 90 % of the deal.

If sold 61 days later, the special dividend appears as dividend income and, to a first approximation, it appears as a short term capital loss as well.

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.

Quite the contrary, but this was the best approximation to battlefield first aid in multiplayer gaming thus far.

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).

Well one way to see how reasonable the first order approximation is to perform the second order approximation, which is

At best, IMHO, a first - order approximation to actual conditions.

My guess is that it is a very painstaking and boring job, and may well not result in a major change in the Folland corrections, which are probably good to a first approximation.

Whether that is true or not, uniform ought to be a good, first order approximation, and climate modeling is still searching for a valid first order model.

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.

Given that, if one wants freedom of choice and an efficient market, shouldn't one accept a market solution (tax / credit or analogous system based on public costs, applied strategically to minimize paperwork (don't tax residential utility bills — apply upstream instead), applied approximately fairly to both be fair and encourage an efficient market response (don't ignore any significant category, put all sources of the same emission on equal footing; if cap / trade, allow some exchange between CO2 and CH4, etc, based CO2 (eq); include ocean acidification, etc.), allowing some approximation to that standard so as to not get very high costs in dealing with small details and also to address the biggest, most - well understood effects and sources first (put off dealing with the costs and benifits of sulphate aerosols, etc, until later if necessary — but get at high - latitude black carbon right away)?

Surely this very crude approach of mine can only be a first approximation at best.

Roughly 1 / 3rd of new calls in Ontario — most of whom attend law school in Ontario — identify as being members of a racialized group (an imperfect estimate, given the LSUC methodology, but probably a good first order approximation)-- by way of comparison 22 % of Ontarians are identified by stats can as being «visible minorities».

As a first approximation, your work might have a devastating effect if your work is good and the original is expensive plus popular — you created a free competitor.