Of course, what happens in local elections does not (directly at least) change the arithmetic in the House of Commons.
Some other improvements in the budgetary arithmetic meant that Mr Darling could unveil this extra expenditure without changing his overall forecasts for borrowing for those years.
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If he does not, then Germany knows that the harsh budget arithmetic in the new Stability and Growth Pact will not add up even for France - let alone the likes of Spain.
Although the electoral maths is now in its favour, the fiscal arithmetic is less forgiving.
This is the conclusion of Nobel Laureate William Sharpe in his latest Financial Analysts Journal article The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses.
The somewhat baffling arithmetic behind this advice is explained in the chapter on protecting your retirement from college costs.
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The dialectic of Arithmetic in Grocery Shopping, in Rogoff, B.
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But the greater problem, at least in size, lies with Social Security, where the demographic arithmetic is startling enough to force politicians to take notice.
This assumption was proposed by Sharpe in his timeless 1991 article, The Arithmetic of Active Management.
But 76% agreed with proposals to test the skills of trainee teachers in the areas of reading, writing, arithmetic and new technology.
Ms Truss said an over-reliance on calculators meant children missed the rigorous grounding in mental and written arithmetic they needed to progress.
In addition to straight arithmetic errors, the IRS can scan tax returns early on to see if there are any mismatches on filers' names, Social Security numbers and other data they can correct.
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The SNP are claiming victory based on arithmetic, but, in terms of expectation, Labour did far better than the nationalists.
Because it would change the arithmetic of the current Commons in quite a significant way.
Introduced in the early 1990s, Mr Kotlikoff's unpleasant arithmetic is attracting renewed official interest.
The mathematician defined the language in his 1703 paper Explanation of Binary Arithmetic.
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In a moment, well give a hint about the compound arithmetic that makes this so.
Schools turned out clerks who functioned as interchangeable parts in a vast bureaucracy where the skills of reading, writing and arithmetic were key.
But refugee girls are now being taught the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic, in a school sponsored by an organisation that has campaigned for women's rights in Afghanistan.
They also tested whether the learning process was conscious by distracting the subjects during the video viewing - the volunteers were asked to do simple arithmetic sums in their head, for example.
It's impossible to add up all the indirect environmental costs of a windmill, but a good proxy for this arithmetic is simply to compare the resources consumed (in dollars) with the output produced (in dollar value of the electricity).
The Arithmetic of Investment Expenses explores the benefits of index funds in a way that should resonate with the public.
If in the seventies, some students argued that pocket calculators made it senseless to do arithmetic by hand, now the very value of sole authorship is called into question.
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That kind of arithmetic points to a strong bias, at the very least, in industry-linked studies.
"Simply replacing the arithmetic Carli formula with the geometric Jevons formula, as will happen in RPIJ, is not optimal, " she added.
It remains theoretically possible for the Conservatives to corral the smaller parties into their lobby and force the changes through - but the by-election defeat in Corby, in the wake of the departure from the Commons of Louise Mensch, has made the arithmetic a little tougher.
The potential gain for innovation from of reducing the maintenance spend is huge, as simple arithmetic shows a 10 percent reduction in maintenance to 70 percent allows an increase in innovation budgets, from 20 to 30 percent, a 50 percent gain.
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