The closer you look at any particular set of numbers, the fuzzier they become.
"It's kind of a mind-boggling set of numbers, " said Barry Popkin, the program's principal investigator.
He said no set of numbers is going to be perfect, that at best they define broad trends.
He bent and picked up a golf ball, and pointed to a set of numbers stamped on it.
And by loading in a different set of numbers, it can be reconfigured in the twinkling of an eye.
The way in which the cells are interconnected is specified by loading another set of numbers into the chip.
Change the first set of numbers and you change what the cells do.
What jumps out at me is there are no venture capital returns in this set of numbers that break double digits.
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However, said Dr Aviv, these results were produced when Pins and patterns were picked from a 50-strong set of numbers and shapes.
"Our goal is to get Europe broadly flat in aggregate and we haven't quite made it in this set of numbers, " he said.
Hollywood used to have a set of numbers -- waist circumference, face shape, beard length -- that Santas were supposed to adhere to, Kliner said.
Another set of numbers is that roughly 10% of UK retail sales now take place online: and roughly 10% of UK retail space is now empty.
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If the names are the same, Dr Naor's method means that each manager will have added the same set of numbers together, and will thus have arrived at the same grand total.
Unlike the original Kisai Rogue SR2, its wooden successor is a combination of maple and sandalwood wrapped around a prominent always-on LCD lined with a circle of connecting blocks in place of a traditional set of numbers.
The whole idea was that the speaker would talk for a while, and then occasionally show a slide that illustrated a point with a picture or a striking image, or made a set of numbers clear with a bar graph or a pie chart.
Misreporting becomes a bona fide issue only when the different set of numbers filed in China was filed before an agency whose mandate warrants a requirement that numbers be accurate (such as the State Administration of Taxation) and that the differences be unexplainable by differing U.S. and Chinese accounting rules.
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Today's facial-recognition systems use a camera to zoom in on an individual's eyes, mouth and nose, and extract a "feature vector, " a set of numbers that describes key aspects of the image, such as the precise distance between the eyes. (Remember, in the end, digital images are just numbers.) Those numbers can be fed back into a large database of faces in search of a match.
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The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy.
True to form, the borrowing numbers have changed again with the release of the March public finance figures - the last set of monthly numbers for the 2012-13 financial year.
Analysts produced a range of interpretations of the latest set of jobless numbers.
The report was made two days after the shop was identified as having sold the sole set of winning numbers for the Mega Millions prize.
The last set of economic numbers to come out of China gave a mixed picture of the recovery in Asia's largest economy, adding to concerns that the government could become stricter on the property market in response to a pickup in house prices.
Mr. Puzo, who says he has set up increasing numbers of quiet trusts in the past two years, notes that it is important not to leave heirs in the dark too long: The beneficiary needs to know his financial situation, and the family needs to make sure someone is keeping tabs on the trustee, he says.
Believing mainstream parties have failed to protect them from aching rounds of austerity, record numbers of voters look set to seek shelter in the arms of outsiders.
They have reversed many of the measures that were set up specifically to combat the vast numbers of bogus asylum applications.
Before you jump into retirement, invest the time and money in a second set of professional eyes to look at your numbers, review your investment suggestions, and discuss the pros and cons of different types of investments, ensuring that your vines are long enough, but not too long.
He wrote few of the group's numbers, but his compositions often set the tone of alienation and frustration for which X Japan was revered.
The government set itself a target of doubling cyclist numbers between 1996 and 2002.
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