To be sure, calculating a brand's real contribution to the market cap of a company is an inexact science.
There are the all-purpose chips like Intel's Pentium series, which can perform almost any computing task, from running a videogame to calculating a spreadsheet.
There is no surefire method for calculating a currency's fundamental value.
Sure you do and regular readers will recall that I huffed and puffed about how that was an entirely absurd method of calculating a tax bill.
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On May 6th, 1949 EDSAC (or Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator) ran its first programs, calculating a table of squares and generating a list of prime numbers.
This figure is the primary figure against which all calculations are run for figuring your retirement benefit, and for calculating a Spousal Benefit for your wife or husband.
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He now sees the company shipping 24 million Tegra units in FY 2011, up from 21 million, adding design wins from Samsung, and calculating a boost to his Android market share forecast to 39%, from 37%.
To appreciate the affront to fairness and mathematical integrity that zeroing represents, recall that antidumping duty rates are determined by calculating a weighted average dumping margin, which derives from individual dumping margins calculated for multiple comparisons.
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He was trained at Arnold and Porter in Washington and was a partner at Howrey, Swidler Berlin and Dickstein Shapiro, specializing in dispute resolution and insurance, areas that put a premium on calculating what a case would cost to litigate and how much a jury might award in damages at the end.
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The Study reduces these economic assumptions by calculating in a 3% inflation rate, which is a good conservative move.
During the turbulent 1990s, Brazilian firms sought to float on exchanges abroad, calculating that a foreign listing would give them access to deeper pools of money and an implicit stamp of approval in the eyes of investors.
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In the struggle to pull Pakistan from economic morass and solidify its fragile democracy, Mr. Sharif is calculating that a bold opening to New Delhi could jump-start the economy and weaken the military establishment that ousted him in a coup in 1999, and that still retains formidable authority.
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The fact of the matter is that good analysts and investors will likely conduct both fundamental and technical analysis or rely on their advisers to do so: After calculating if a security is overvalued or undervalued, they may use technical analysis to determine the best time to enter or exit a position.
The post-cold-war world differs from the disciplined bipolar world of the years between 1945 and 1989 because, among other things, it contains quite a lot of countries which may be able to lay their hands on weapons of mass destruction and whose rulers may be less carefully calculating than a Nikita Khrushchev or a Leonid Brezhnev.
That is a measure of calculating speed ordinarily translated into a thousand trillion operations per second.
There are a number of mistakes when calculating the probability of a traffic news report being useful to a motorist.
It will also replace the existing formula for calculating payments with a simpler system.
But such information is critical to calculating how much a company needs to invest to avoid harming the resource.
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Kasparov talked about the game more like a poet than a calculating machine.
How fitting, then, that Leibniz conceived of a calculating language defined by two and only two figures: 0 and 1.
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Stumbling around, apparently hapless, Baron Cohen conducted interviews with people who somehow never realized that they were talking to a calculating satirist.
How often do we do this level of measuring success criteria with our people and calculating how valuable a business assist is or could be?
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This sort of lack of understanding mirrored, I felt, what was going on with much of the population, because so many people feel that she is just a calculating entertainer who got lucky.
But calculating the average probability for a group is much easier than calculating the same probability for any individual.
Any perception of a tweed-clad member of the landed gentry more concerned with pheasant stocks, Purdey shotguns and regenerative timber stocks hides a shrewd, calculating businessman, unafraid to show the ruthlessness of a mako shark in making unpopular decisions.
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The findings suggest that, for some, wearing a helmet is less about calculating risk, and more about having a way of feeling safer in situations that feel risky - whether or not it actually would make them safer.
What, do you think you'll be able to go through life with a tiny calculating machine in your shirt pocket, she screamed.
Calculating the cost of a pension scheme depends on two key assumptions.
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They used our data to prove it for themselves by calculating the performance of a portfolio of publicly traded companies that are leaders in our Customer Experience Index.
The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).
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