Details of her precise value are hard to determine -- "She is a pretty secretive yacht, " admits Richard Thiel, Editor-in-Chief of Power and Motoryacht Magazine.

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One fundamental puzzler is how to determine that precise private value market or intrinsic worth.

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But without a final lease agreement it is impossible to determine what the precise increase in revenue and value will be for the Falcons.

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Scientists and engineers might need the precise time, but these childhood memories of the value of punctuality may be what sustains the layman's passion for exactitude.

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