Sentence examples for decent calculation from inspiring English sources

Because if they did, then we would finally be able to make a decent calculation of how far it was from the Earth to the sun; and thence make a start on working out the dimensions of the solar system.

Nobody ever tried to make any decent calculations (it will be quite some work) to determine whether it costs more to be free or to be stuck in the biofilm!

Climate modeler Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Stanford, California, calls the paper a "decent set of calculations".

■ The living wage is based on the calculations of a decent standard of living.

This illustrates that the simple approach may yield a good approximation and that it is not always necessary to perform tedious calculations to achieve a decent parameter-performance trade-off.

Thus, predictive calculations may be performed with decent effort on a large set of molecular data in order to identify potentially new cocrystal systems.

Mr. Palombo, who is working with Max Dobens, a vice president of Prudential Douglas Elliman, explained his calculation: "If we get inside a decent zone, that would save us $2,000 to $3,000 a month in private education".

Regular folks struggle to save for investment because the overhead costs of trying to live a decent life are rising much faster than the Fed's calculation of consumer price inflation.

Whereas from 1960-1999, allost all developing countries displayed procyclical fiscal policies, a decent number were using countercyclical policies instead from 2000 to 2009 (see below).The authors' calculations show that better institutions leads to more countercyclical fiscal policy.

By our calculations, it has been approximately 8,000 years since Halloween has fallen on a decent party day like Friday.

Indeed, investors' calculations of future profits were probably based on the company's ability to earn a decent return on such assets.