The technique used for his original estimate, possibly as many as 12, 000, 000 species, was criticized, and was later revised, with estimates of 850, 000 – 4, 000, 000 species proposed.

Mark Liberman calculated the storage requirements for all human speech at 42 zettabytes ( 42, 000 exabytes, and 8, 400 times the original estimate ), if digitized as 16 kHz 16-bit audio, although he did freely confess that " maybe the authors the exabyte estimate were thinking about text.

Of course, when a simple function is used to estimate data points from the original, interpolation errors are usually present ; however, depending on the problem domain and the interpolation method used, the gain in simplicity may be of greater value than the resultant loss in accuracy.

Researcher Robert Conquest, meanwhile, has revised his original estimate of up to 30 million victims down to 20 million.

According to a conservative estimate, about 40 percent of the island's original forest cover was lost from the 1950s to 2000, with a thinning of remaining forest areas by 80 percent.

The total collection from the capitation, according to Necker in 1788, was 41 million livres, well short of the 54 million estimate, and it was projected that the revenues could have doubled if the exemptions were revoked and the original 1695 assessment properly restored.

We then have a better estimation for the total probability by adding the probabilities of these two possibilities to our original simple estimate.

Although numerous technical, political, and financial problems had been overcome, the final cost was more than double the original estimate.

But Friedrich Bessel was skeptical about Struve's data, and, when Bessel published a parallax of 0. 314 ″ for the star system 61 Cygni, Struve revised his value for Vega's parallax to nearly double the original estimate.

However, the £ 603 million of lottery money was still £ 204 million in excess of the original estimate of £ 399 million required, due to the shortfall in visitor numbers.

Post-action reports still documented the original estimate and assumed that the 352nd had been deployed to the coastal defenses by chance only a few days previously as part of an anti-invasion exercise.

This was an increase from the original estimate of 13, 115.

Nash's original estimate of the building's cost had been £ 252, 690, but this had risen to £ 496, 169 in 1829 the actual cost was £ 613, 269 and the building was still unfinished.

When the Cromford Canal was opened in 1794, it had cost nearly twice Jessop's original estimate.

The construction of the railway cost was £ 180, 000, higher than the original estimate of £ 155, 000 (£ and £ respectively as of ) but much lower than the £ 500, 000 the canal was predicted to cost (£ as of ).

Cost £ 690, 717 against the original estimate of £ 801, 059.

The final cost of construction was £ 26, 263, which was nearly double the original estimate.

In 1880 they carried 151, 860 tons, and by 1913 there were 18 tugs, 1, 010 compartments, and 1, 560, 006 tons were carried, 33 times Warde-Aldam's original estimate.

Today we can only estimate a description of the original habitat and wildlife by comparing with that of neighbouring countries and it is believed that it would have consisted of freshwater swamps inland and salty mangroves on the coast and the river estuaries.

90 % of all vulnerable machines were infected within 10 minutes, showing that the original estimate for infection speed was roughly correct.

However it was found that the original estimate for the stone stadium would still be too expensive, and the plans were once more modified in order to simplify the design and reduce costs.

But one of the subcontractors then claims reimbursement above its original estimate and, because of this change, B Ltd cannot profit from the works.

Wyatt's original estimate for the work was £ 23, 000, but the need to repair structural defects discovered during the work led to costs escalating to more than £ 61, 000.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

According to the original program, Premier Khrushchev expected the millions looking toward the Kremlin this morning to be filled with admiration or rage -- depending upon individual or national politics -- because of the `` bold program for building communism in our time '' which the Congress will adopt.

Petitioner was not entitled, either in the administrative hearing at the Department of Justice or at his trial, to inspect the original report of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, since he was furnished a resume of it, did not challenge its accuracy, and showed no particular need for the original report.

The filing of an original or amended declaration, otherwise due on January 15, 1962, is also waived, if you file your Form 1040 for 1961 and pay the full tax by January 31, 1962.

In addition to the three major original equipment segments of the electronics business, the steady growth in the market for replacement parts continues year by year.

Although lacking absolute verisimilitude, they supply the ear and the imagination with all necessary materials for re-creation of the original.

In the period since the end of World War 2, -- a period coinciding with merchandising demands for the colorful, the unusual, and the original in signs and displays -- plastics have come on so strong that today they are the acknowledged leaders in the field.

Pennsylvania Avenue, named for one of the original 13 states, perhaps is not the most impressive street in the District of Columbia from a commercial standpoint.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

In recent days there have been extensive lamentations over the absence of original drama on television, but not for years have many regretted the passing of new plays on radio.

In moderate doses, alcohol narcotizes the appestat and enhances appetite ( the original reason for the cocktail ) ; ;

The category's original name was Best Art Direction and was changed to its current name for the 85th Academy Awards, with the Art Director's branch being renamed the Designer's branch.

This essay had the same shock value as the original " Modest Proposal " for those readers who had not been exposed to Swift.

* A language may use different sets of symbols or different rules for distinct sets of vocabulary items, such as the Japanese hiragana and katakana syllabaries, or the various rules in English for spelling words from Latin and Greek, or the original Germanic vocabulary.

The term " droid ", coined by George Lucas for the original Star Wars film and now used widely within science fiction, originated as an abridgment of " android ", but has been used by Lucas and others to mean any robot, including distinctly non-human form machines like R2-D2.

1993 saw a release for PCs with Windows 3. 1 as part of the original Microsoft Arcade package.

In 2004, Asteroids ( Including both the Atari 2600 port and the arcade original, along with Asteroids Deluxe ) were included as part of Atari Anthology for both Xbox and PlayStation 2, using Digital Eclipse's emulation technology.

His later novels included fixups such as The Beast ( aka Moonbeast ) ( 1963 ), Rogue Ship ( 1965 ), Quest for the Future ( 1970 ) and Supermind ( 1977 ); expanded short stories ( The Darkness on Diamondia ( 1972 ), Future Glitter ( aka Tyranopolis ) ( 1973 ); original novels such as Children of Tomorrow ( 1970 ), The Battle of Forever ( 1971 ) and The Anarchistic Colossus ( 1977 ); plus sequels to his classic works, many of which were promised, but only one of which appeared, Null-A Three ( 1984 ; originally published in French ).

A 1945 radio series of at least 13 original half-hour episodes ( none of which apparently adapt any Christie stories ) transferred Poirot from London to New York and starred character actor Harold Huber, perhaps better known for his appearances as a police officer in various Charlie Chan films.

The adaptions are notable for changing the plots and characters of the original books ( e. g., incorporating lesbian affairs, changing killer identities, renaming or removing significant characters, and even using stories from other books in which Miss Marple did not originally feature ).