Some would retreat and do nothing but solitary calculations; some would network furiously; some would ask if it was worth trying to win TV quiz shows when the aim was to win the most-significant-calculations contest.
"David and George [Osborne] made two significant calculations about this contest some time ago," one senior Tory figure said.
They have set fund-raising targets, made personnel decisions and made calculations of the contest's ideological and geographic contours to try to turn Mr. Bush's incumbency to his advantage at every opportunity.
LONDON — In a general election where the unexpected surge of the Liberal Democrats has put all the usual calculations about the contest between Labour and the Conservatives in flux, there has been a morbid familiarity to the campaign of one party that cannot hope to be part of the jockeying for power many pundits foresee after the ballots are cast on May 6.
This refers to how industry actors are able to test the limits of regulatory principles and calculations and on occasion contest these through their applied science capabilities.
Finally, I contest his calculation that "schools with wealthier students are three times more likely to get an A than schools serving the poor".
For comparison's sake, a modern PC can manage around 100 billion calculations a second.For the contest, Watson had to rely entirely on its own resources.
I suspect I won't be the only viewer who makes choices influenced by calculations about the integrity of the contests.
More recently, that argument has been replaced by a more mature contest about larger uncertainties and calculations.
But some contest the professors association's calculation, saying that definitions of part-time and full-time professors vary, and that it is not possible to determine how many courses, on average, each category of professor actually teaches.
By Norman's calculations, it would happen in one in five close contests among three candidates who each have between twenty-five and forty per cent of first-preference votes.
