Perhaps it thought that being near the stern of the boat, according to the calculations above quoted, it could still remain beyond the three-mile limit.
Or are the further calculations more accurate,--that there have been constant migrations of people from Asia?
Immediately after Oro had triumphantly vindicated his stellar calculations he turned and departed into the cave, followed by his daughter, waving to us to remain where we were.
Then he remarked very quietly that all was in order, and handing the plate he held to Yva, said: "The calculations made so long ago are correct, nor have the stars varied in their proper motions during what is after all but an hour of time.
He replied that he was checking his calculations that he found to be quite correct, an exact period of two hundred and fifty thousand years having gone by since he laid himself down to sleep.
The Lord Oro needed me, and those calculations were long and difficult.
My labours are finished; my calculations are complete," and he pointed to the sheets of metal before him that were covered with cabalistic signs.
Unless my skill has failed me and my calculations have gone awry, that Traveller of which I tell should presently be with us.
But I was commanded to believe; and yet it corresponded not with what had been established by calculations and my own sight, but was quite contrary.
Meanwhile, however, there had been an immense rally to him of the younger clergy and of the less conservative among the laity.
This was the beginning of that protracted duel between him and Mr. Disraeli which lasted down till the end of the latter's life.
He used to say that when he had disposed of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, he might undertake a "Dictionary of European Impostors.
With perfect lucidity and an unstrained natural vigour, there was a sense of abounding and overflowing knowledge which inspired confidence in the reader, making him feel he was in the hands of a master.
He is also more fond of exerting his intellect on abstractions.
How far the change which passed over him was a natural development, how far due to mere calculationsof interest, there is little use discussing: perhaps he did not quite know himself.
The calculations involved great labour, and were not published during his lifetime.
Borelli gave calculations of the enormous strength of the pectoral muscles in birds; and his proposition cciv.
In all calculations on which a declaration of war is based the moral fibre of the actual and potential enemy nations is fully considered.
A general whose strategy is based upon time calculations that are rendered inaccurate by the breakdown of the marching power of his troops runs grave risk of disaster.
But the calculations of the aged physicist had been accurate.
It'd make it easier for them if we'd shut off our power and drift at constant velocity, but we'd use up valuable time and throw our calculations all out of whack.
The total contingent upon which we have been making our calculations numbered 290, but it is right to exclude all the epileptics, for the reasons we have mentioned.
This sad story, which we have just recalled, we give as a striking illustration of our statistical calculations regarding the ultimate fate of these institution cases.
From all thesecalculations we obtained a figure to remember, and also an opinion.
There was no cash-box for him to be absorbed in now; but every evening he made countless calculations in an old ledger which he took to bed with him with as much care as he had the money-box.
And in the evening, as he sat over his endlesscalculations at the kitchen table, the girl and the old woman scarcely dared speak to each other save in whispers.
The binomial symmetry is obtained through calculations of mathematical combinations.
Rapid calculations flashed through his mind--already he regretted his last year’s inactivity, the destruction of his picture.
Five hundred at sixpence each--why, it sounds like one of those faëry calculations with which McTavit sometimes dazzles the school-room.
This seems to have been the only occasion in the strangely varied life of Catherine, when evil passions, unmixed with political reasons, or calculations of expediency, governed her conduct, and urged her to excesses of cruelty.
And in this way several of them became important elements in the calculations of those potentates.
These variations have been ascertained by a reference to the course of the heavenly bodies, or the calculations of the wúku, which are described in another part of this work.
The Admiral sent a boat ashore to ask what people lived on the island, and to ask his way, although, as he afterwards found, his own calculations were so correct that he did not need any help.
The worth of a maravedi varied, from time to time, so that the calculations of the value of any number of maravedis are very confusing.
Now the calculationsof Reineker, like most calculations, went wrong.
His calculations were frustrated by one of the forts taking fire on the 27th, when an assault was delivered, and the whole of the forts surrendered; Marmont at once fell back across the Douro, there to await the arrival of his reinforcements.
For five hours the battle had raged, when, just as all appeared lost, one of those circumstances occurred which upset all calculations and decide the fate of battles.
For actual calculations a less symmetrical form may be used.
If the interpolated value of u has to be used in calculations for which it is important that this value should be as accurate as possible, it may be convenient to retain it temporarily in the form .
The preceding formulae indicate clearly the nature of the calculations by which an insurance office is able to ascertain the amount of funds which ought to be kept in hand to provide for the liabilities to the assured.
The actuary is forced to observe that the interest factor in his calculations is much less definitely fixed by known facts than the mortality factor.
Already they have their tables of calculationsfor such cases.
On these calculationsthe immediate and all subsequent premiums or payments are based.
Arithmetician he was not, in the ordinary sense--but he managed his business calculations in a way of his own, that answered all his need.
He was amply tutored during the early years of his study; and, when he had become a great Master, he still proceeded by calculations founded partly on what he had already been taught, though transcending it in reach and refinement.
And according to mycalculations there's exactly one way out.
He had not taken into his calculationsat any time such prosaic objects as parents, brothers, sisters, and, more vital than all, other young men who might have found the same qualities in Eileen to adore as had attracted and bound him.
But he soon discovered to his cost, that the calculations he had made were quite fallacious, owing to his having neglected to inquire whether the late prosperous season had been a normal or an exceptional one.
All calculations of prices would then be made by simple multiplication.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "calculations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
