Sentence examples for tiny discrepancy from inspiring English sources
When Randy Mastro and his colleagues scrutinized the film, they noticed a tiny discrepancy between the version that aired at Sundance and the one that was subsequently released on DVD.
Despite the tiny discrepancy in mass between the uranium atom and its products, the amount of energy released is big and the reason why is obvious when you look at the c² term in the equation – the speed of light is a huge number by itself and its square is therefore enormous.
Given the scale (i.e. millions of devices), even a tiny discrepancy in price could result in hundreds of millions of dollars, going one way or the other.
But this tiny discrepancy in the sun's actual periodicity resulted in a gain of about three days every four centuries under the Julian calendar as compared with the observed equinoxes and solstices.
Scientists suspect that small inherited predispositions are either enhanced or suppressed by experience, and computer models show that tiny discrepancies at the start can become enormous over time, through feedback loopings of positive reinforcement.
Mr. Aleynikov's arrest in 2009 drew attention to a business that had been little known outside Wall Street - high-frequency trading, which uses complex computer algorithms to make lightning-fast trades to exploit tiny discrepancies in price.
Nick Leeson, the trader who ran up £860m ($1.4 billion) of dealing losses at Barings, a British merchant bank, in 1995, was supposed to be making money in Singapore by exploiting tiny discrepancies between the prices of two futures contracts.
A federal jury in Manhattan in December found the programmer, Sergey Aleynikov, guilty of stealing proprietary code that places trades using computer algorithms that spot tiny discrepancies in stock prices.
Even tiny discrepancies can void your policy.
In 2007 Spivey contracted with a New York hedge fund to devise a low-latency arbitrage strategy, wherein the fund would search out tiny discrepancies between futures contracts in Chicago and their underlying equities in New York.
Technology has now reached a stage where even the tiniest discrepancies can be of huge cost, pushing us towards a new era of time-keeping.
