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But even before union officials made their pitch, the mayor appeared on the same patch of Times Square pavement yesterday to make one of his own, saying that the union's arithmetic was wrong.

(IBM's Makovich insists Rexroad's arithmetic is wrong because he used IBM's fully diluted shares in his calculations, adding that "share repurchase is not the only element to consider when comparing diluted share count year to year. A portion of many share repurchase programs, including IBM's, offsets stock options issued and therefore has no impact on diluted EPS").

Ed Vaizey's claims show evidence of being worked out on paper, complete with carried ones, rather than by calculator; unfortunately for the Oxford-educated former barrister, however, his arithmetic is frequently wrong.

The existence of this hysteresis effect is explicitly explained by the action of two mechanisms: the arithmetic associated with the wrong side of the inflation tax Laffer curve and the Patinkin effect (the reverse of the much oftener cited Olivera–Tanzi effect).

"Once I get past 'I know I am doing something wrong here,' the arithmetic settles it for me.

What that means, he said, is that "once I get past 'I know I am doing something wrong here,' the arithmetic settles it for me".

"Emerging anti-ship technology...places the aircraft carrier on the wrong side of basic arithmetic".

A subtle aspect of one of his imagined 'intelligent' conversations (Turing 1950b, p. 434) is where the computer imitates human intelligence by giving the wrong answer to a simple arithmetic problem.

It is shown that a wrong choice of interpolation scheme (weighted arithmetic mean) may lead to a transition region thickness dependent electric field in the bulk.

She also gave wrong answers to questions involving simple arithmetic, for example "three plus three equals seven".

However, in most cases, floating-point arithmetic is considered during calculations, which can lead to wrong assumptions about filter performance.

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