This year the sum is smaller - is that because the citizens have been living purer lives or because their incomes are smaller?
The reason for that is that (Delta {{mathbf {B}}}^{{{mathrm {tor}}}}) and (Delta {{mathbf {B}}}^{{{mathrm {pol}}}}) partly cancel, so that the vector sum is smaller than (Delta {{mathbf {B}}}^{{{mathrm {tor}}}}) in magnitude.
If the sum is conducted for segments ordered from larger to smaller posterior frequencies, the credibility interval is composed by all segments such that the sum is smaller than 0.95 times Y.
And all of these sums are small for Ford, which earns $1.2 billion to $2 billion each quarter.
The sums are small, but add up quickly when multiplied by millions of users: Zynga says it has been profitable since shortly after its founding.
As the New York Times pointed out in a profile of FarmVille's founder Mark Pincus last year, "the sums are small, but add up quickly when multiplied by millions of users".
In the context of public expenditure, however, these sums are small beans – they essentially amount to three or four stamps for each voter to mail out a ballot paper, a stamp-addressed envelope, and then a campaign leaflet or two.
While the individual sum is small, with a good turnout, the total allocation could pay for a full-time organiser or good local initiatives.
While Germany saved 6 billion to 7 billion euros, the sum is small compared with annual German government spending of more than 300 billion euros, said a German government official, who did not want to be identified.
One such man for whom such a sum is small change is Beny Steinmetz, the Israeli diamond tycoon whose company cut and polished the 132.5 carat rough diamond into its beautiful oval shape.
