Sentences with phrase «of numbers by»

Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers by Amir D. Aczel Palgrave Macmillan *, 2015 -LRB-($ 26)-RRB-

Yet people actually lived and worked under such conditions; the Bob Cratchits of that world wrote and added up columns of numbers by candlelight.

All we want is for the truth to be out there without the skewing of numbers by MANA.

Jones emphasized the inexactness of the numbers by the way he listed them on the bottom line of each page, using the word say, as in «Let's say it's about somewhere in the range of...»

On Saturday, officials with Metro, the region's subway system, said more than 207,000 rides had been taken on the system by 1 p.m., about half of the number by that time during the Women's March.

That there may be some who need compulsion, some who, if they were free - footed, would riot in selfish pleasures like unruly beasts, is doubtless true; but a man must prove precisely that he is not of this number by the fact that he knows how to speak with dread and trembling; and out of reverence for the great one is bound to speak, lest it be forgotten for fear of the ill effect, which surely will fail to eventuate when a man talks in such a way that one knows it for the great, knows its terror — and apart from the terror one does not know the great at all.

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In order to create tax cuts in the province's education and healthcare systems, the party is also looking to find savings by reducing the number of grants and tax credits going to businesses.

A source with knowledge of Twitter's plans said that future steps could include requiring an account that has been flagged as abusive by the algorithm to provide a verified phone number or email address before the restriction is lifted.

«From 2012 to 2015, the absolute number of patients treated with nitroprusside decreased by 53 %, and the number treated with isoproterenol decreased by 35 %,» wrote the study authors.

The shift downwards could be due to a number of factors, with the most likely culprit being comments made recently by American Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, indicating an upcoming pullback in the Fed's economic stimulus program.

First was that the number of medications taken by PillPack's average user — seven — was higher than they'd expected.

Starbucks» first - quarter results show that the coffee chain continues to struggle with soft traffic in the United States, quantified by a drop in the number of transactions.

The number of data professionals in Canada — people employed as statisticians, mathematicians and actuaries — has increased by 48 % over the past five years, making it the fastest - growing job category in the country.

The company breaks out grams sold by dry cannabis versus oils, which is not common across the sector, as well as the number of grams produced suitable for sale.

He could try and do this (assuming he becomes president) by doing a number of things, including stacking the court with judges favorable to his views.

The program had aimed to use a number of measures to wean the country off oil by 2020.

Despite record years in terms of total gross, the number of actual tickets sold by movie theaters has been plateauing for years.

To be specific, Comcast's subscriber base grew by 53,000 during the most recent quarter, substantially more than most analysts were expecting, and a much better performance than the same quarter a year earlier, when the number of subscribers shrank by 8,000.

Vanguard Group was not able to immediately provide a source for the numbers cited by Bogle, but a Vanguard spokesman said it is extremely hard to decipher «speculation» from legitimate, short - term usage of ETFs; for example, for hedging and cash equitization.

The number of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent year - over-year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate of 12.8 percent overall for VCs of any type in the same period, according to data from CB Insights.

According to research commissioned by Upwork, more than one in three U.S. workers are now freelancing, and in the UK, government stats show that an increasing number of people are opting to be self - employed.

Ranked by number of beds, the top 3 organisations in the list are Fiona Stanley Hospital, Hollywood Private Hospital and Joondalup Health Campus.

«We feel that by being in the region, we will be able to significantly expand the number of companies we are covering,» Dase said.

That result might seem surprising given the recent headlines declaring the demise of Canadian law firms (not to mention the hordes of law grads struggling to find articling positions), but lawyers are big earners, and over the past five years their numbers have swollen by 10,000.

Former Grant Thornton partner Matthew Donnelly and former Perth Airport executive Fiona Lander have brought to seven the number of external recruits to join Deloitte's Perth partnership in the past five months, offsetting moves by other partners such as Jenn Morris, who has retired from the firm.

Investors seem to be mesmerised by this number, which is more reminiscent of a tech business than a bed retailer.

Actual results or outcomes may differ materially from those implied by the forward - looking statements as a result of the impact of a number of factors, many of which are discussed in more detail in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K and our other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

According to a number of recent news reports, German media conglomerate Axel Springer is considering either dramatically increasing its stake in or acquiring all of Business Insider, the scrappy upstart news operation co-founded by former Wall Street analyst Henry Blodget.

In order to figure out why, the researchers ruled out a number of possibilities by controlling for variables such as family background and health.

In simple terms, add up the cost of marketing and sales — including salaries and overhead — and divide by the number of customers you land during a specific time frame.

You multiply that by the number of transactions that we do a year, and that's thousands and thousands and thousands of hours we put back in the customers» pockets.

We compiled that information into this snapshot showing which states have the most at stake, measured by the total number of jobs:

By having a limited number of accelerators, investors were able to better vet the startups accepted into the program, which allowed for a greater chance for companies to receive capital.

This appears to be the «time out» feature that a number of users reported seeing recently after they posted certain tweets considered by the company to be in violation of its rules.

Analysts are expecting a «retracement» in the June Consumer Price Index numbers, following the fairly sizeable gain of 1.9 % in retail trade indicated by the CPI in May.

If Dunn and Spaly can bring down their bounce rate to 20 percent and maintain a decent conversion rate (the number of visitors who make a purchase), their sales could increase by as much as $ 10,000 a month.

Prepared by a coalition of the National Venture Capital Association, Dow Jones VentureSource Database, Rooney & Associates (a New York public relations firm), and DeSantis Breindel (a New York marketing agency), the report seeks to answer a number of questions about the role of «branding» when it comes to the venture capital business.

In fact, it is so effective that research has shown it can boost the number of people who click on your page by 30 %.

«An audacious company is one that measures its success or failure by the number of people whose lives are improved as a result of its work,» he told me.

Revenue from its broadcasting unit dropped significantly, but that was mostly because the network had the Super Bowl last year, and so most of its broadcasting numbers looked worse by comparison.

Using figures provided by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Canada's embassy in Washington provides detailed state - by - state data on the number of U.S. jobs that depend on Canada-U.S. trade.

There have been a number of high - profile derailments of trains — including one by UP — carrying shale oil, much of which is produced in new drilling areas without established pipeline networks and must be moved by rail.

For what it's worth, Amazon currently sells books by a number of other serial killers and mass murderers, including the likes of John Wayne Gacy, David «Son of Sam» Berkowitz, and the most infamous mass murderer of all time, Adolf Hitler.

Fox last month parted ways with its most popular anchor, Bill O'Reilly, amid a number of harassment claims that he has denied, and network chief Roger Ailes resigned last year after he was sued by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.

GE, a leader in 3D - printed aircraft engine parts, said it had produced 50 % of the parts needed for a helicopter engine, slashing the number of parts required from 900 to just 16, reducing the weight by around 60 % and cutting the related costs by 40 %.

During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Zuckerberg reiterated much of what he covered during those hearings by explaining recent initiatives like increasing the number of employees who handle reviewing content for security and safety to 20,000.

Its efficiency has allowed him to nearly double his customer base and quadruple the number of advertising campaigns he can manage by himself.

Overall, the number of businesses owned by women of color jumped by 42 percent between 2007 and 2012.

The fact that the number of women entrepreneurs has increased over the years has been made possible, in part, by their passion, talent and dedication and their ability to obtain essential business support including access to capital.

Frezza and Kleinbaum liken the arrangement to Amazon Web Services, which triggered an explosion in the number of new internet startups by removing the need to own one's own servers as a barrier to entry.