Sentence examples for calculation is off from inspiring English sources

If a calculation is off by half an hour, the falling satellite has already traveled one-third of the way around the world.

His calculations were off by a kreutzer: "less than a cup of coffee," he said.

Blodget redid her math and found that Meeker treated "cpm" as if it meant "cost per one," not "cost per thousand," meaning that her calculations were off by an order of a thousand.

[3] I interviewed (in The Times) the leading authority on that issue, and he assured me that the current calculations are off and we have at least another 60 years left.

In an experiment he models after a similar one of Mersenne's, he judges the velocity of sound to be 1,473 ft/sec [478 meters/sec] (his calculations are off by 435 ft/sec [146.7 meters/sec]) and invariant to the pitch of the sound (O I 418a-419a).

Hipparchus' calculations were off by only a few minutes, which is pretty impressive for 2,200 years ago.

The Family Research Council calculations were off by a mere 43,500% Does that break some sort of exaggeration record? 3) The abortion-family-planning conflation continues, harming millions of babies in the process.

Cut enough so that each end can be sewn into the cap and always cut the strap slightly longer than your original measurement, in case your calculations are off.

In the presence of 30% hexamers, as observed in (Gandhi et al., 2011), the calculations would be off by about 7.5%.

bThis calculation was based off of August 2011 exchange rates of GHS to USD (1 GHS to 0.67 USD).

"At first, the calculations could have been off by digits," Mr. Shiroya said.