Sentences with phrase «little back of the envelope»

You might even start doing a little back of the envelope math on run rates.

It's difficult to say for sure without some heavy duty number crunching, but a little back of the envelope work provides approximate result.

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All in, a back of the envelope calculation suggests that Amazon contributed a little under 5 % of the Seattle region's economic output during this period.

Back - of - the - envelope calculations (described below) suggest that as little as a million dollars could be used to shore up futures positions and influence the auction market.

A little back - of - envelope calculating here.

A little tired of the log cabin, I pieced and quilted them differently, and added envelope closure in the back for easy removal and washing.

The method was immediately assailed by campaign finance expert Prof. Michael Malbin, who called it «little more than back of the envelope arithmetic based on incredible assumptions.»

If we do some back - of - the - envelope math and average the state's and the Ingersoll estimates together, it means that 85,000 current Illinois teachers will leave the profession in the next ten years with little retirement savings to show for their experience.

Let's do a little back - of - the - envelope calculation: Assuming that the heating unit has an efficiency close to 1.0 and that automotive diesel has an energy density of ~ 39 MJ / l which translates to ~ 10kWh / l.

If some guy named «Jimmy» called you at your office and said he had found an envelope addressed to you from the New York State Insurance Fund on the subway or in the back of a cab, would you tell him to bring it right over and reimburse him for his cab fare, with a little something extra for his trouble?