square-root

To put it another way, verbs evolve at a rate inversely proportional to the square-root of their prevalence in the English language.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

Because while local dry cleaning and laundry services would bring me back clothes mangled, shrugging like I'd asked them for the square-root of the word "elephant," Garment Valet actually called to discuss my clothes and let me know when to expect them.

Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last Ed Zitron 2010

Because while local dry cleaning and laundry services would bring me back clothes mangled, shrugging like I'd asked them for the square-root of the word "elephant," Garment Valet actually called to discuss my clothes and let me know when to expect them.

Ed Zitron: Ride the Whirlwind: Making a New York Minute Last Ed Zitron 2010

It warned clients that economic performance could look more like a square-root sign: down, up and then sideways.

Investors Search for Sure Signs 2009

As an electrical engineer I understand e ** jwt (we use j instead of i for the square-root of -1).

A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis) 2007

Confidence intervals (the plus-minus X% part of the poll result) can then be estimated as usual using a square-root rule.

TPM Track Composite: Obama Ahead By Over Seven Points 2009

You posed a rhetorical question as a counter-example to square-root weighting.

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Its bet for the euro zone: A "square-root" scenario of "a sharp initial recovery followed by a leveling off halfway down the road."

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Even so, Eric's use of square-root weighting seems like a misapplication of chi-square.

TPM Track Composite: Obama Ahead By More Than Eight Points 2009

I still believe the square-root thing is a mistake.

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