In seeking to establish, acquire and maintain what's valuable to us, we can ignore the usefulness of affection in determining value and employ numerical and financial calculations of worth.
Brett had been studying business, which dragged him into a back-of-an-envelope calculation of the worth of the course itself.
A nascent effort to introduce a measure of natural-resource accounting into the United States' official calculation of economic worth was made in 1993, but it is on hold pending a Congressionally ordered study of the soundness of the approach by the National Academy of Sciences.
In 2011 the accredited investor definition was changed to exclude a person's home from the calculation of net worth so that individuals cannot bet their house on a risky investment.
A lot of billionaires' wealth is theoretical – it is tied up in stock, which waxes and wanes as the days progress, or is locked into hard real estate, so their actual money on-hand is a lot less than the total calculation of their worth – but by my calculation that puff puff pass cost Elon Musk: $695,231,000.
The first step is for the SEC to update the definition of an accredited investor and exclude savings in 401 k)'s and IRAs from the calculation of net worth so that individuals cannot bet their retirement savings on risky and illiquid investments.
One of the main issues of nuclear reactor design is the accurate calculation of control rod worth.
Instead of dessert, many meals are ending with a cold, hard calculation of who is worth paying for and who isn't.
Another analyst, Laura Martin of Soleil Media-Metrics, has said that $300 billion of market value — her calculation of the current worth of all the companies involved in television production and distribution — is at stake.
The calculation of future net worth would be done twice, once on the assumption that Maria purchases with all cash, and once on the assumption that she borrows 90% of the price.
Monte Carlo codes, such as MCNP 6.1, can also perform, via adjoint weighted tally, SPT calculations of reactivity worths.
