* According to The Economist, however, IKEA's charitable giving is meager, " barely a rounding error in the foundation's assets.

In metrology, physics, and engineering, the uncertainty or margin of error of a measurement is stated by giving a range of values likely to enclose the true value.

The parody is also an erroneous example of the activity of giving a definition in a dictionary, where the more general error it makes is in mistaking dictionaries to involve procedures that are found in logical or mathematical contexts.

* If, after giving the cards, the dealer turn up a card in error, as though it were the trump card, he cannot refuse another discard.

We can convert this into an error analysis for the Riemann sum (*), giving an upper bound of

Here " best " means giving the lowest possible mean squared error of the estimate.

A printing error resulted in giving the album cover a copper colour.

Prosecutors are protected from civil liability even when they knowingly and maliciously break the law in order to secure convictions, and the doctrine of harmless error is used by appellate courts to uphold convictions despite such illegal tactics, thus giving prosecutors few incentives to comply with the law.

Austin warns us to take care when removing words from their ordinary usage, giving numerous examples of how this can lead to error.

Mackie has been interpreted as giving two arguments for moral error theory.

Polybius in his Histories ( c. 140 BC ), Book XXXIV, cites Pytheas as one " who has led many people into error by saying that he traversed the whole of Britain on foot, giving the island a circumference of forty thousand stades, and telling us also about Thule, those regions in which there was no longer any proper land nor sea nor air, but a sort of mixture of all three of the consistency of a jellyfish in which one can neither walk nor sail, holding everything together, so to speak.

Further, the water metering system would have to be extremely reliable, giving one drop per second per square inch, and was achieved via a trial / error design approach on real hardware.

The error detection and conflict monitoring theories cannot explain some evidence obtained by electrical studies that demonstrate the effects of giving feedback after responses because the theory describes the ACC as strictly monitoring conflict, not as having evaluative properties.

At the end mean is calculated giving the average error which can be taken as the measure of sensitivity.

As there were only two recordings, if an actor flubbed a line in both takes, the error appeared in the broadcast, giving the show some immediacy.

The Berry – Esseen theorem, or Berry – Esseen inequality, quantifies the rate at which this convergence takes place by giving a bound on the maximal error of approximation between the normal distribution and the true distribution of the sample mean.

The game is also notoriously unstable with unusually high tendencies to hang, crash without giving reason, and display error messages incorrectly and / or at the wrong times.

The new constitution, though not giving Dorr and his followers all they had asked, did give them most of the substance, so their rejection of it may be seen as a tactical error.

At 1, 000 meters, that same 0. 2 mm misalignment would be magnified 100 times, giving an error of over 300 mm ( 1500 times the sight misalignment of 0. 2 mm ).

This phase error, which increases with the flare angle, reduces the gain and increases the beamwidth, giving horns wider beamwidths than similar-sized plane-wave antennas such as parabolic dishes.

As the size of a horn in wavelengths is increased, the phase error increases, giving the horn a wider radiation pattern.

# Astrologers and palmists, who hoodwink the gullible by saying that astrology and palmistry are perfectly " Scientific ", can win my award if they can pick out correctly — within a margin of five percent error — those of males, females, and living and the dead from a set of ten palm prints or astrological charts giving the exact time of birth correct to the minute, and places of birth with their latitudes and longitudes.

The local error at each step of the midpoint method is of order, giving a global error of order.

Not only did the ideal entrepreneur not produce the greatest good for the greatest number, he ended by destroying himself, by giving birth to monopoly capitalism.

To put it bluntly, many a local church is giving its members only what they consciously want.

This slim book, while giving the reader only a fleeting glimpse of the scientific mind confronting the universe, has the appeal that informed conversation always has.

Even if that's all the promise he ever gave or ever will give, the giving of it once was enough and you believed it then and you will always believe it, even when it is finally the only thing in the world you have left to believe, and the whole world is telling you that one was a lie.

But the only love I was giving him was the pure kind.

Thus, giving grades and promotions based only on an individual's performance relative to a small local group, as is common, may reduce cooperative behaviors in the group.

From the early Middle Ages until after the Second Vatican Council the sacrament was administered, within the Latin Church, only when death was approaching and, in practice, bodily recovery was not ordinarily looked for, giving rise, as mentioned above to the name " Extreme Unction " ( i. e. final anointing ).

Orchestration differs in that it is only adapting music for an orchestra or musical ensemble while arranging " involves adding compositional techniques, such as new thematic material for introductions, transitions, or modulations, and endings ... Arranging is the art of giving an existing melody musical variety " ( ibid ).

The judges decided only 30 minutes before the ceremony, giving the prize to Golding.

The conservative nature of these changes underlines the fact that Protestantism was by no means universally popular – a fact that the queen herself recognized: her revived Act of Supremacy, giving her the ambiguous title of Supreme Governor passed without difficulty, but the Act of Uniformity 1559 giving statutory force to the Prayer Book, passed through the House of Lords by only three votes.

We can only study their behavior ( i. e., by giving them our own Turing test ).

They led the Wild Card by 1. 5 games over San Francisco and Houston on September 25, and both of those teams lost that day, giving the Cubs a chance at increasing the lead to a commanding 2. 5 games with only eight games remaining in the season, but reliever LaTroy Hawkins blew a save to the Mets, and the Cubs lost the game in extra innings, a defeat that seemingly deflated the team, as they proceeded to drop 6 of their last 8 games as the Astros won the Wild Card.

# hardware context switching does not save all the registers ( only general purpose registers, not floating point registers — although the TS bit is automatically turned on in the CR0 control register, resulting in a fault when executing floating point instructions and giving the OS the opportunity to save and restore the floating point state as needed ).

The latter test is relatively insensitive, successfully detecting only 60-80 % of infections in asymptomatic women, and often giving falsely positive results.

As part of this notice procedure, there may have to be several notices, first a notice giving class members the opportunity to opt out of the class, i. e. if individuals wish to proceed with their own litigation they are entitled to do so, only to the extent that they give timely notice to the class counsel or the court that they are opting out.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

Francisco Pizarro never had the intention of giving up Cuzco to Almagro, and only wanted to win time for himself to organize an army strong enough to defeat Almagro's troops.

" 9 to 5 ", the theme song to the feature film 9 to 5 ( 1980 ) Parton starred in along with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, not only reached number one on the country charts, but also, in February 1981, reached number one on the pop and the adult-contemporary charts, giving her a triple-number-one hit.

Certain complex character combinations can only be accomplished in a double-byte language, giving rise to especially complex forms, sometimes known by their romanized Japanese name of kaomoji.

There are three types of epistolary novels: monologic ( giving the letters of only one character, like Letters of a Portuguese Nun ), dialogic ( giving the letters of two characters, like Mme Marie Jeanne Riccoboni's Letters of Fanni Butlerd ( 1757 ), and polylogic ( with three or more letter-writing characters, such as in Bram Stoker's Dracula ).

In 185 battles that France had fought over the past 800 years, their armies had won 132 times, lost 43 times and drawn only 10, giving the French military the best record of any country in Europe ".

There are only about 3 cubic metres in the observable universe, giving about 7. 1 Planck spaces in the entire observable universe, so a googolplex is far larger than even the number of the smallest measurable spaces in the observable universe.

However, the Coalition was only assured of another term in government when Moreton was called for Liberal Jim Killen, giving the Coalition a precarious one-seat majority.