The predictive strikes examined above were investigated for only a small fraction of the potential orientations of fish relative to snakes - i.e. for fish oriented at approximately right angles to the jaw and relatively close to the snake's head and body.
Further branching is either at right angles to the main trunk or dichotomous (i.e. two daughter branches at approximately right angles to each other) (Berntson, 1995; Pournaras et al., 2008).
The three canals which in fact are considerably more than a semicircle in circumference are oriented at approximately right angles to one another.
Re "Precisely False vs. Approximately Right: A Reader's Guide to Polls," by Jack Rosenthal (Aug. 27): Having spent a good deal of my professional life conducting and analyzing statistical data, I cringe and shout at my television every time I hear "margin of error".
As Michael O'Leary, another of Mike's former epidemiology students, paraphrased him: "It's better to be approximately right today than exactly right tomorrow".
"Your elbows should be your by side at approximately right angles, palms facing down, forearms parallel to the floor with the keyboard just underneath your hands, wrists neither up nor down as that strains them," she says.
As long as the guess was approximately right, the resulting vaccine would confer enough protection to break the chain of transmission.
The suggestion that exports to the country's 10 largest non-EU trading partners would have to grow by 37% by 2030 simply to compensate requires open and informed debate as to how this is to be realised, even if the numbers are only approximately right, given the likely economic circumstances surrounding world trade over the next several years.
So we can say if we get it approximately right, that's good enough".
What readers can hope for, whether in an individual poll, a consensus from several polls or from the polling profession generally, is the truth — approximately right.
