Sentences with phrase «use arithmetic»

The folks who do the averaging happen to use the arithmetic mean over the field with specific sets of weights, rather than, say, the geometric mean or any other.

Continuing to use arithmetic guidelines and calculations to create her work, Herrera establishes balanced relationships between compositional variants of symmetrical or asymmetrical forms.

The average investor is often misled by the media and institutions which incorrectly use the arithmetic average return.

Help students learn to estimate, understand numerical relationships, and use arithmetic as a tool to solve problems.

The numbers tell a sad and alarming story: Most 4th graders who live in U.S. cities can't read and understand a simple children's book, and most 8th graders can't use arithmetic to solve a practical problem.

Almost all use arithmetic, but several make baffling references to trapezoids.

It's even harder to imagine what would happen if you tried to manipulate it using the arithmetic operations that work on numbers.

Within the larger landscape of algebra, we focus here on an aspect of algebra that many mathematics educators refer to as algebraic reasoning (e.g., Kaput 1999), which includes using arithmetic for generalizing, working with patterns to describe functional relationships, and modeling as a way to formalizing generalizations.

While computing the average price of a stock or index over a period of time, I have the choice between using an arithmetic mean or a geometric mean.

Recalculate the average annual return using arithmetic math and you can see that compounding actually increased the rate of return on the annuity to over 8 % per year.

(The most common cause for people inaccurately citing too - high statistics is using an arithmetic average instead of geometric average)

(In poster session 5 (1/14/09) of the 89th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, David Hofmann mentions both 30 and 35 years in his poster and then at the bottom of the extended abstract (see link near bottom of Hofmann's poster) uses their arithmetic mean, 32.5 years, pretty close to the 31.8 years obtained by more careful fitting.)

The SHS is computed using the arithmetic average of the four items (item 4 is inverted for this computation) and the higher the value, the higher the subjective happiness.

Not exact matches

AlterEgo has so far been used to solve arithmetic problems, play chess, query basic questions and control a Roku streaming user interface.

If you use the usual arithmetic (linear) price scales, the recent past looks a lot more volatile compared to the distant past.

You are going to have to be prepared to take notes, cross check and use some logic and likely arithmetic.

You can understand market returns over every span of history using the same basic arithmetic.

One can demonstrate the arithmetic quite simply using any discounted cash flow approach, and it holds for stocks, bonds, and other long - term securities.

These meetings used to be a time when the US urged other countries to respect the laws of economics and arithmetic in formulating economic policies.

That is clearest in the singing of four - part hymns, something that Protestant congregations learned as a matter of routine (the standard teachers» manual used in Saxony in Bach's childhood had sections on reading, arithmetic, and four - part singing).

In arithmetic, we can use the concept «five» to apply to cows, fingers, balls, stars, and dumplings.

Turing's «halting problem» proof is intimately related to (and can be used to prove) other major limitative theorems in logic and mathematics, including Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem for Arithmetic and Church's Theorem for predicate logic.

«The ideas of any and of some are introduced into algebra by the use of letters, instead of the definite numbers of arithmetic» (IM 7).

«It's Income Tax Season, so our brains could use some easy arithmetic; as in seven - ingredient - or-less recipes.

Last Friday, after Ernie Irvan had tearfully announced his retirement from NASCAR racing because of a series of head injuries, his wife, Kim, explained the simple arithmetic of the decision: «He's like a cat with nine lives, and he has used up eight of them.»

As used by Kelly, the read - option provides an offense with a multitude of advantages: It's easier to read a defender than it is to block him, the reads become built - in misdirection as the defense doesn't know who has the ball, and, as Kelly pointed out, a QB who is a threat to run alters the fundamental arithmetic of football.

That way, they can see some of the use of practical arithmetic.

Reading and arithmetic skills were measured using standardised tests.

This is a 30 - point test of arithmetic, language and basic motor skills that is typically used to assess how fast people with dementia are declining.

Similar to the first study, 48 percent of participants» selections reflected the incorrect use of the arithmetic average formula.

Rickard suspects that memorizing 2,000 dates and using such arithmetic would allow 70 percent accuracy.

Although there is no way Leonardo can possibly know it, his book is going to change the course of human civilization by bringing to the West the method of writing numbers and doing arithmetic that we use today.

She also says that other recent work confirms that it's possible to compute the impact of large numbers of genes using simple arithmetic.

Using the prototype wearable interface, the researchers conducted a usability study in which 10 subjects spent about 15 minutes each customizing the arithmetic application to their own neurophysiology, then spent another 90 minutes using it to execute computatUsing the prototype wearable interface, the researchers conducted a usability study in which 10 subjects spent about 15 minutes each customizing the arithmetic application to their own neurophysiology, then spent another 90 minutes using it to execute computatusing it to execute computations.

Instead of a library of arithmetic routines, for instance, there was a graphical calculator gadget, and either a digital character or an actual human could use it to add numbers through the same interface.

The committee had clearly done its arithmetic: It specified that the $ 117 million should be used to fully fund the relatively small amounts requested for three projects close to completion, plus $ 83 million of the $ 103 million requested for OOI.

They also demonstrate how the ancient scribes, who used a base 60 numerical arithmetic similar to our time clock, rather than the base 10 number system we use, could have generated the numbers on the tablet using their mathematical techniques.

For the surreal numbers to be more use than, say, the ordinals, we have to be able to perform arithmetic with them.

Feedback applied its arithmetic talents to the premise that continual use of Dettol antibacterial cleaner would select one resistant bacterium...

Even if the native mathematical system of Mangareva employed binary arithmetic, the current residents of the island no longer use that system.

Yet Conway found them, and he found ways to use them in arithmetic just like their ordinary numerical neighbors.

Feedback applied its arithmetic talents to the premise that continual use of Dettol antibacterial cleaner would select one resistant bacterium in 1000, and that this would lead to astounding numbers of resistant bugs (2 May).

These specifications, known generally as an Instruction Set Architecture, describe the most basic functions of the processor including its arithmetic and logic operations, as well as the way programs use the computer's memory.

In remaining cases, discrepancies between computed and recorded areas were consistently small, suggesting use of an unknown indigenous arithmetic.

An international team of researchers, including Professor C. David Wright from the University of Exeter, have developed a nanoscale optical «abacus» — which uses light signals to perform arithmetic computations.

Before the 13th century Europeans used Roman numerals to do arithmetic.

The so - called doomsday algorithm uses clever mental arithmetic and mnemonic tricks to enable a quick determination.

Here we use intracranial recordings in the human posteromedial cortex (PMC), a core node within the DMN, during conditions of cued rest, autobiographical judgments, and arithmetic processing.

Or, you could just Google the ingredients and use some quick and dirty arithmetic — just make sure you're in that 100 - 200 calorie ballpark.

«It's Income Tax Season, so our brains could use some easy arithmetic; as in seven - ingredient - or-less recipes.