Sentences with phrase «off by orders of magnitude»

It will be important to realize that the changes projected by the papers will inevitably vary from what would (or will) actually happen, but the probability that they will be off by orders of magnitude seems quite small.

Some of the figures quoted in the original post are off by orders of magnitude, and even better estimates in some of the commentary are probably erroneous.

Sometimes answers are off by orders of magnitude, and the whole idea slips unnoticed.»

Before we understood those, we were off by orders of magnitude.

Before we understood the process of nuclear fusion, we were off by orders of magnitude.

But Frank Mauro of the Democratic - leaning Fiscal Policy Institute said he'd tried to do the math on Wilson's calculations and concluded that the additional taxes he projects are «off by an order of magnitude.»

If you mean that Amazon is only 30 % of the ebook market, I'd like to see your figures, because not only is that lowest figure I've ever seen floated in the past four years, this data is the first time self - published ebooks have been really accounted for and it suggests that any estimates we're getting to date could be off by an order of magnitude.

But you're off by an order of magnitude on the horses... It is a $ 40 billion industry in the US — that's just the «recreational» side.

Even if I'm off by an order of magnitude, we're still talking about many hundreds of years.

It was a typo and God only knows how many people failed to notice it was off by an order of magnitude.

An agreement at the level of some statistical significance in the fit is a good hint that there may be something real that causes that agreement, but as long as the physical calculations are off by an order of magnitude we certainly are missing a real explanation.

Even if they are off by an order of magnitude, a 6 meter rise in sea level will dramatically alter the coastlines of the world.

Not exact matches

In any case, «The classical theory of nucleation has turned out to be off - target by several orders of magnitude in some systems when it comes [to] quantitative predictions.»

They differ by orders of magnitude, hundreds of times, and some are off by a thousand-fold.

«Just in defining the industry, they are literally off the mark by many orders of magnitude and tens of billions of dollars,» Hoopes said in an email.

(The «I think» was because I was hoping to extricate myself from CE for a while to finish off a paper explaining why climate sensitivity as currently defined can neither be measured nor estimated with an error bar less than 1 C per doubling, and proposing a different definition that shrinks the error bar by an order of magnitude.

That particular scattering (or absorption) cross-section turns out to be only of the order of 5 * 10 ^ -22 m ^ 2, so I was off by many, many orders of magnitude.

You wrote: «You're off by several orders of magnitude».

You're off by several orders of magnitude.

I made a math error and was off by 3 orders of magnitude — the actual temperature change is 0.1 degrees, and I can easily see that as measureable.

Despite the fact that this number may be off by several orders of magnitude, it is a ludicrously small number.