Sentence examples for to formulas from inspiring English sources
noun
Any mathematical rule expressed symbolically.
- X = \frac {-b \pm \sqrt{b^2 - 4ac{2a is a formula for finding the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0.
Some rituals are too precious to be reduced to formulas, and this is one of them.
And in general, some political and personal expenses are reimbursed to the government according to formulas.
Pay committees have become wedded to formulas that pay out even when disaster has struck in part of the empire.
Acting, writing and other creative acts are reduced to formulas that can be taught, and thus packaged and sold.
Unfortunately, it tends not to reward the prudent, thanks to formulas that govern over 70% of federal investment.
But the lesson remains at the core of "Building Big": every desire for bigness comes with human costs, often reducible to formulas.
The governor called for distributing the increase according to formulas based on the poverty of the districts and on the cost of living.
"I use metaphysics to reduce the most important parts of the work to formulas containing all the variables affecting the work," he says.
And I could, with a little effort, convert some of the cells from straight numbers to formulas that varied with income, so that I could model alternative situations.
This is a restricted version of the principle of abstraction, now known as the principle of comprehension, for it provides for the existence of sets corresponding to formulas.
These fatty acids, which are naturally present in breast milk, are already being added to formulas in 60 countries and have been endorsed as beneficial to infant development by the World Health Organization.
