Sentences with phrase «idea of the actual number»

No, to get a very rough idea of the actual number of books being sold, the sales ranking has to be dissected dynamically, with the same immediacy as the ranking being calculated.

Not exact matches

«The idea of taking the actual account number out of the flow... common sense says that's a good thing, especially in the light of the data compromises that we've seen,» said Visa CEO Charles Scharf at a payments conference last month.

By asking this question, the researchers could compare participants» predictions about how many ideas they would generate with the actual number of ideas they ended up generating during the second interval.

The counter-argument resides in his citation and defense of G. J. Whitrow's argument2 to the effect that an infinitist is committed to the idea of an infinite number of intermediary past events which ex hypothesi ought to be able to be counted or successively synthesized (but which everyone agrees can not be), and that this very situation of infinite intermediaries obliterates the intuitively sound distinction between actual past and potential future.

In An Introduction to Mathematics numbers apply to everything — «to tastes, to sounds, to apples and to angels, to the ideas of the mind and the bones of the body» (IM 2)-- because the idea of numbers, as well as the idea of mere things, is abstracted from actual things.

It distinguishes between the actual mathematical ideas involved, such as numbers or points, and the things of nature attached to them.

Also by doing nothing, the chances are we'd get some idea of what the actual problems were and how we might be able to fi x them, and the sheer number of government cock - ups would collapse overnight.

Also tucked in the recommendations are such bold ideas as serious acceptance of alternative pathways and «residency» - style preparation; insistence on real standards for entering prep programs and getting certified; the demand that prep programs respond to K — 12 education's actual supply - demand numbers rather than enrolling as many people as possible (thus probably killing the proverbial ed - school «cash cow» within universities); and tracking the performance of those emerging from various prep programs and institutions — and actually closing those that don't produce successful professionals.

While retailers around the world — both in the book industry and out of it — tend to carefully guard their actual sales numbers, bestseller lists are a different idea altogether.

It would be great to have an analysis of that idea with actual numbers and science.

The idea is that 1 % of the Earth has warmed 5C and the rest hasn't warmed at all, but because 20 % of stations are in the areas that have warmed by 5C, the actual increase of 0.05 C is overstated by a factor 20 (numbers plugged out of thin air, merely for illustration).

There have been a number of odd (er, interesting...) floating solar power ideas over the years (see links under article), but Singapore may be the first to implement an actual floating solar farm.

There have been a number of odd (er, interesting) floating solar power ideas over the years, but Singapore may be the first to implement an actual floating solar farm.

You can refer to the figures above to get an idea of what your rates might be, but your actual quotes will be based on a number of different factors including, but not limited to:

Though the figures above can give you a general idea of what your rates might be, your actual costs are based on a number of different factors, including but not limited to the following:

You can refer to the figures above to get a general idea of what your rates might be, but your actual Brookline homeowners insurance quotes are based on a number of different considerations, including but not limited to factors such as the following:

You can refer to the figures above to get a general idea of what your rates might be, but your actual home insurance quotes are based on a number of different factors including but not limited to the following:

You can refer to the figures above to get a general idea of what your rates might be, but your actual Madisonville homeowners insurance quotes are likely to vary from these numbers.

An actual figure of the number of claims not settled against the number of claims made would give a better idea about the company's performance in settling claims.

While in theory this is a nice idea, in actual practice, it could be problematic for a number of reasons.