Politically, the calculation looks easy.
The White House's calculation looks very different.
How very different, though, an equivalent calculation looks for Clinton.
Whenever the trust takes on another asset, it does the same calculation looking 50 years out at visitor income, rental fees and the cost of maintenance.
The calculation looks at direct damages for homes and other buildings and their contents, clean-up costs, loss of agricultural production and commercial stock as well as indirect damages such as disruption to transport links, water, electricity or access to amenities.
But when you don't have the mature, rewards-laden international payment system to hand, when you're treated as suspicious and denied credit just because you're from the most populous country in Africa, when your national currency's inflation rate crosses double digits heading for triple … then, suddenly, the calculation looks very different indeed.
This number was obtained from a power calculation, looking for a medium effect size (0.5), with p = 0.05, aiming for α = 0.8, allowing for a drop-out rate.
Now of course, these calculations look at income only, and not the wealth accumulated by rulers versus those they rule.
Motorola's 2.25% was equivalent to a few dollars per unit.Although his calculations look rough and ready, Judge Robart was "lucky", says Mr Contreras, to have as much to go on as he did.
Our calculations look only at the raw number of headlines, nothing more.
