Sentence examples for fractional number from inspiring English sources

Although the idea of an average person or an average family (with a fractional number of children) now seems unremarkable, it helped to make possible the statistical analysis of social questions.More remarkably still, it also suggested that a statistical average could be meaningful even in a very diverse population.

To keep the months of a lunar calendar (e.g., the Hindu calendar) in their proper seasons, an entire month must be intercalated periodically, because there are a fractional number (between 12 and 13) of cycles of lunar phases (months) in a solar year.

If we would count all of them, the resulting fractional number would not be very informative.

In some cases, an ADR represents a multiple or fractional number of the local foreign stock.

When the congestion window exceeds the threshold, cwnd becomes a fractional number.

The fractional number is quite far from the integer that would indicate the occurrence of well defined oxocomplexes of copper.

Floating point operations include any operations that involve fractional numbers.

An FOPID is a PID whose derivative and integral orders are fractional numbers rather than integers.

They underlie the representation of probabilities by real (initially: fractional) numbers from the interval between 0 and 1.

Now, consider the case where ( {m}_1^{prime } ) and ( {m}_2^{prime } ) are fractional numbers.

However, in order to avoid the use of fractional numbers, all of these parameters are normalized such that.