32 adjectives to describe computation

On a moderate computation, the indirect testimony of Irenaeus may be taken to refernot to the period 185-195 A.D., which is out of the questionbut to that from 160-180 A.D.

This was a vast work, involving the subtlest considerations of principle, very long and elaborate mathematical investigations of a high order, and an enormous amount of arithmetical computation.

It were to be wished that an accurate computation could be made how much money has been paid in the United States, within a score of years, for patent medicines.

By careful computation we have ascertained that each vessel might be encircled by such plates, weighing but one hundred and twenty pounds per superficial foot, and have her bulwarks plated also, without adding more than three hundred tons to her weight,actually less than one-third of the cargo she was designed to carry.

A most jealous re-examination has however detected nothing, and has confirmed my belief in the general accuracy of the numerical computations.

His memory was excellent, and he possessed the faculty of rapid computation; though as yet his brain had been but little taxed, since the practice code was still in use.

CHAPTER V The Engagement at Hormigueros Topography of the battlefieldMacomb's cavalry fired into by Spanish skirmishersOur advance-guard comes into contact with the foeGeneral Schwan reaches the firing lineThe main body arrives and joins in the fraySubsequent manoeuvres of our columnThe Spanish retreatA computation of losses.

This, my lords, will appear from a diligent and minute comparison of the captures on each side, and an exact computation of the value of our losses and our prizes.

CHAPTER V The Engagement at Hormigueros Topography of the battlefieldMacomb's cavalry fired into by Spanish skirmishersOur advance-guard comes into contact with the foeGeneral Schwan reaches the firing lineThe main body arrives and joins in the fraySubsequent manoeuvres of our columnThe Spanish retreatA computation of losses.

Then the remoter or metaphorical signification; as, the ground of his opinion was a false computation.

And then, on top of this, when one stops to remember that this army of three hundred thousand men and a hundred thousand horses was merely one single cog of the German military machine; that if all the German war strength were assembled together you might add this army to the greater army and hardly know it was therewhy, then, the brain refuses to wrestle with a computation so gigantic.

The aged Man Had placed his staff across the broad smooth stone That overlays the pile; and, from a bag All white with flour, the dole of village dames, He drew his scraps and fragments, one by one; 10 And scanned them with a fixed and serious look Of idle computation.

In one corner that most worthy implement, an Abacus, four feet square, a specially strengthened piece of ironmongery with rounded corners, awaited the young giants' incipient computations.

In point of fact it appears that Shakspeare did owe debts in all directions, and was able to use whatever he found, and the amount of indebtedness may be inferred from Malone's laborious computations in regard to the First, Second, and Third parts of Henry VI., in which, "out of 6,043 lines, 1,771 were written by some author preceding Shakspeare, 2,373 by him, on the foundations laid by his predecessors, and 1,899 were entirely his own."

And I write it in the tongue of England, the merry and the free, on the tenth day of the month Nisan, in the year, according to the lesser computation, five hundred ninety and seven, that thou may'st learn good thereof.

In a naval battle for instance, ships no longer engage at close range, where it is possible for the crew of one to board the opposing ship and engage in hand to hand conflict with the enemy; machinery turns the guns and even loads them; the whole fight is simply a contest between trained gunners, who must depend for success on cool mathematical computation.

As already indicated, Professor Morgan's standing as an astronomer was undisputed, and Professor Macadam did not question the accuracy of his reasoning, so far as mere computations went.

A pound in that age, as we have already observed, contained three times the weight of silver that it does at present; and the same weight of silver, by the most probable computation, would purchase near ten times more of the necessaries of life, though not in the same proportion of the finer manufactures.

Only rough computations are possible.

"Morgan, what are significant digits?" "Ah," Morgan said, "the concept is that in scientific computation, the result cannot be more accurate than the least accurate quantity or measurement involved."

And besides this, eighty-six separate computations of the tabular R.A. and N.P.D. of cusps have been required.

And that you may not lack matter for your pen, I warmly urge you, when by shrewdest computation you have exhausted the plots of adventure and have worn your villains thin, that you proceed in quieter vein.

I cannot forbear warning you in the most earnest manner against endeavouring at wit in your sermons, because by the strictest computation, it is very near a million to one that you have none; and because too many of your calling have consequently made themselves everlastingly ridiculous by attempting it.

This underrated computation must be accepted unless it can be shown that the temperature produced by radiant heat is not inversely as the diffusion of the rays.

Thus it was that he satisfied himself, and thus that great fortune (in actual computation amounting to upward of sixty-three thousand pounds) fell to Barnaby True, the grandson of that famous pirate William Brand.

32 adjectives to describe  computation