My colleague Osha Gray Davidson has some more numbers showing the growth trends of the solar sector.
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Almost as odd is that it is an "initial modelling result", with a promise to publish more material in due course, once it has crunched through some more numbers.
The state governments themselves have often released some numbers that are more in the spirit of what you're asking about.
Forbes spent a good chunk of the day verifying some of these numbers and learning more about this incredibly low profile entrepreneur.
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True enough, it is a bit more complicated than simply punching some numbers in a digital calculator.
This value is estimated in current forecasting models, so plugging in some accurate numbers should make those predictions more reliable.
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To mathematicians all numbers are special, but some are more special than others.
There are more assertions about whether the bid to increase the numbers moving to work is some kind of scam, but this seems tendentious: a goal of moving more people into jobs may be realistic or not, but more people in more jobs would be more people in more jobs.
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The bottom line is you can use these numbers to tell many different stories, some more valid than others, depending on the taxes you include and the income measure you use.
But some combinations of a few numbers are going to be immensely more meaningful than others.
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Mr MacGugan said more deer may be being culled in some areas, but numbers of the animals were higher in other parts.
Most analysts agree that cod stocks today are nowhere near healthy numbers, though some fishermen say they've netted more cod recently than in the past.
In More or Less, we investigate some of our most politically sensitive numbers with revelations about the way we measure the performance of the health service, looking particularly at the crisis of nurse recruitment.
Much more important, the Bank would need to have some confidence that those numbers were not going to be constantly - and extensively - revised.
And to estimate the share of prisoners in certain subgroups, it was necessary in some cases to use surveys conducted no more than once every five years, interpolating numbers in between and making the result fuzzier.
Some of the numbers bandied about in policy discussion were quite imaginative and we wanted a more defensible estimate.
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Those statistics have fed more than a dozen lawsuits alleging that some schools misled students with deceptive job-placement numbers.
The numbers do not reveal how many guns were purchased because some buyers could have bought more than one.
As Austan said, I think we will learn more about what this report means in the coming months as we look through some of the numbers underneath what do the construction numbers mean, what do the transportation numbers mean, what do the overall workforce numbers mean.
Marina Ottaway, do you get some sense that in some way there's a revised policy that there's something more than a new strategy in increasing numbers of troops or deploying them differently?
But some Democrats are more wary, despite polling that finds that core Democratic voters still support Mr. Obama in large numbers.
On some occasions, the broker signaled Hertz to change his bids to specific numbers so that his employer could make more money.
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No one was more emotional than Carter, who took six years to get in despite putting up some of the best receiving numbers in NFL history.
India traditionally follows wholesale data closely, although the more representative consumer inflation numbers introduced a couple of years ago are expected to become the benchmark in some years.
Our usual response to those numbers is a vague clamor for more jobs and better jobs and job training, and then some screaming about all the jobs outsourced to India and China.
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