Hints and tips:
...“It’s like baking a cake: you don’t put cement in it,” the official said, adding that Berlin’s proposals would make the new budgetary formula “inedible”....
...“After so many years of difficult negotiations . . . there’s no magic formula that allows all of us to be completely happy.”...
...Another option, which has won the backing of prominent educators, is switching A-levels to numerical grades....
...Lyft’s formula for success relies in large measure on two things: first, the use of government incentives to spur electric car purchases by Lyft drivers....
...One is that comparing the numerical outputs the IRR spits out against stock market performance is a bit like comparing apples with pears....
...The mathematics professor relied on the so-called Bayes formula. The formula is correct but he did not plug in the right numbers because he missed a subtlety of the game....
...Students are expected to memorise certain formulas which used to be given at the top of the exam paper....
...The aim was to ensure that “tariffication”, the conversion of purely quantitative measures to numerical percentage duties, did not reduce market access....
...But the party has wavered between adopting his preferred formula of a target of growth at “about” a certain percentage and falling back on absolute targets....
...For example: putting a number (rather than a cell reference) directly into a formula....
...Then: more numbers, a spiraling out-of-control formula, and that awful scraping of chalk on blackboard. Finally, the classroom fell silent. Poor Nicholls stood motionless....
...But that does not justify a muddled concern for numerical formulas that tell us little about what is desirable or just....
...Harari’s formula for the agricultural revolution provides him with a working definition of human progress....
...And they’ve come up with a formula whereby, if 110,000 isn’t enough there is a way in which it can be racked up to 180,000.” So, there are two big hopes in his eyes....
...In a faintly surreal sequence we glimpse him at an easel among fields, apparently a landscape painter; but it transpires he is at a board, writing out his formula for “value at risk”....
...Russian conservatism can be traced to the time of the monarchy and is known by a simple formula: “Good tsar, bad elites.”...
...Coca-Cola famously dumped its market-leading drink in favour of a new formula, which data showed customers might prefer. New Coke proved an unmitigated disaster....
...to tradable assets (not to a Vix for interest rates) and the numerical methods used are a joke....
...Klout, a San Francisco-based start-up, tracks people’s internet presence and perceived influence, and condenses that into a single numerical score....
...” of general numerical targets....
...More broadly, they contend that final judgments about governments’ fiscal policy should be taken at a political level – and not based so heavily on numerical charts....
...Rather, differences remain about formulas for other highly paid staff....
...Why did no one notice the formula’s Achilles heel? Some did....
...First, the structure of the model they are using (the formulas and equations to carry out the calculations); and second, the numerical value of the parameters used....
...Croats and Serbs, the country’s other two “constituent peoples”, continue to shelter themselves against Bosniak numerical domination through ethnically-based safeguards....
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