Perhaps mindful of the experience of former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who laid out an ultimately flawed case against Iraq nine years ago, Mr. Netanyahu revealed no new intelligence — he just urged his audience to do some math based on the public findings of inspectors.
More generally, in a large-scale study of almost 12,000 Nebraska schoolchildren published in August in The Journal of Pediatrics, researchers compiled each child's physical fitness, as measured by a timed run, body mass index and academic achievement in English and math, based on the state's standardized test scores.
A new study from OECD Programme for International Student Assessment, which evaluates the quality, equity and efficiency of school systems, shows the U.S. is 17th in reading, 21st in science and 26th in math, based on a sample of 15-year-old students.
Back on February 21st, I did some complicated (for me) math, based on Gore's half-million-popular-vote victory in the 2000 general election (a Station of the Cross for Democrats), and decreed as follows: In this year's Democratic primaries, the equivalent of Al Gore's national popular-vote margin in the 2000 general election would be around 125,000 votes.
Her intricate math, based on recent studies, produces a ballpark guess of ten million "tourist dollars" a year brought into Detroit by the D.I.A.
Here, in a nutshell, is his math: Based on corporate filings, he says, Apple has roughly $137 billion in cash and short-term securities, of which 70 percent is overseas; Microsoft has $78 billion, of which 80 percent is abroad; and Cisco has $47 billion, of which 80 percent is overseas.
I did some admittedly very sketchy math based on just email and Twitter usage and came up with an average of 840 interactions taking an average of a second each to complete.
He wouldn't specify an amount, but he did provide some hints, and suggested that it's likely more modest than you might suspect doing your own rough math based on other startup comparisons.
