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This is an approximation, the original was even more toe-curling, if you can believe it.
In that year Briggs gave a numerical approximation to the base 10 logarithm of e but did not mention e itself in his work.
We may perceive effects as real but they are in no way approaching even a rough approximation of reality and probably never will.
In a rough approximation, it works the same way as lint, and lint's users will need very little time to understand how to use it.
A similar algorithm was later developed which allowed rational approximation of continuous functions defined on an interval.
He gave a wonderful series of lectures on special functions, asymptotic analysis, and approximation theory.
Thus, model fluorescence data was blurred by convolving it with the triple Gaussian approximation of the PSF of the objective.
We've got computer projections of drift according to the weather and charts which give us an approximation of survival times.
At this level, many learners achieve a close approximation to the skills of the native speaker of the target language.
It was also introduced to Europe and the famous Aylesbury duck of England is, if not exactly the same variety, a very close approximation.
The continental slope would therefore give, apart from rare exceptions, a good approximation of the precise extent of the continent domain.
The surgeon also strives for a functional repair of the muscles and an aesthetically pleasing approximation of the skin edges.
It is possible to include a first-order approximation of mass transport influence in the distribution analysis, based on compartment models.
He returned to problems that had interested him earlier in his career, such as problems concerning approximation and interpolation.
Later in his career, he taught courses on differential geometry, interpolation and approximation, and probability theory.
His main work was on the constructive theory of functions and approximation theory.
The approximation of the integral is most accurate if the lattice points lie in the high-density region of the integrand.
In 1802, he wrote a paper on the approximation of decimal fractions by common fractions.
The effects of bending are neglected to first approximation, and the dominant resistance to indentation is taken as the isotropic tension.
Techniques for circumcision vary from excision without suturing to wound approximation with sutures and the use of tissue glue.
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This, out here to the southwest, is what might be called an approximation to his trail.
Can we find any approximation to this in the different races known to be produced by selective breeding from a common stock?
Form in painting, like the eternal readjustments and equilibria of life, is but an approximation to stability.
I don't think I can answer that question accurately, because the time approximation, without a stopwatch, would be difficult.
If we are to seek for an approximation to aristophanic humor, we shall find it perhaps in Rabelais.
In mathematics, approximation is not guesswork, not looseness, and not error.
So that, all things considered, the transformist hypothesis looks more and more like a close approximation to the truth.
The Newtonian theory, then, is not to be considered as wrong, but in the light of a first approximation.
Twitchell suggests 346 as the combining weight of rosin, but 330 is a closer approximation.
An approximation to the quantity can be obtained from the spread between the acetin and bichromate results on such distillates.
Perhaps the law of refraction was not quite accurate, but only an approximation.
This represents an approximation between income and outgo which it would be hard to improve.
He moved his tail again, as though this closest approximation of lashing in which he dared indulge might stimulate his momentarily waned courage.
The approximation of sound in these names is sufficiently evident.
Even an approximation to it is rare, and absolute accuracy is still rarer.
This approximation, however, will serve all the purposes of this argument.
You cannot have read them without some approximation to our Church.
At each new visit they beheld a larger pile of wooden chips and a nearer approximation to something beautiful.
The more perfect the approximation to truth, the more perfect is art.
This is a very near approximation to the story of the Kilkenny cats.
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