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- noun Plural form of
calculation .
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Underlying the calculations is a complicated "risk-adjustment" formula for ironing out differences in hospitals 'patient mix, so the comparison will be fair.
Compare hospitals on heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia 2009
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Do you all think Cd. Camargo to Zacatecas, which by my calculations is about 620 km, (on the aforementioned AAA map) is a reasonable trek for two quasi-viejitos?
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The way some people make up their calculations is amazing.
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The beauty of these kind of calculations is that there's such a myriad of variables involved that, depending what you choose to count and how you choose to count it, you can get any result you want.
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The beauty of these kind of calculations is that there's such a myriad of variables involved that, depending what you choose to count and how you choose to count it, you can get any result you want.
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I have to admit, it takes a pretty tall ivory tower to believe that your paper napkin calculations are more correct than 50+ years of market data!
Time to Panic?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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As a result, there has been a huge surge of enrollment draining previous funding based on calculations from the 1960's when the Baby Boomer generation hadn't even began to retire.
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I did some napkin calculations today and calculated that the 20 million illegals require the output of 58 2.5 GW coal fired power plants to support their electricity needs.
The Perfect Storm of Cap and Trade. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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Determining the numbers, elevations, floor plans and calculations is the Science aspect of it.
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Momentum, in our calculations, is an attempt to measure online buzz -- it values not only the total frequency of media mentions but also the visibility of each hit and the credibility of the source, among other factors.
Steve Schohn: Shorting the Hype of a Candidate with Momentum Steve Schohn 2010
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