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synonyms for approximation
- guess
- estimation
- conjecture
- ballpark figure
- guesstimate
- educated guess
- informed guess
- rough idea
- rough measure
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The format pits teams of four against each other in a loose approximation of football.
KEEP THE FOOTBALL MODE IN ‘ROCKET LEAGUE,’ YOU COWARDSMIKHAIL KLIMENTOVFEBRUARY 8, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThe new approaches disguise that nonlinearity as a more digestible set of linear approximations, though their exact methods vary considerably.
NEW QUANTUM ALGORITHMS FINALLY CRACK NONLINEAR EQUATIONSMAX G. LEVYJANUARY 5, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINEThis will give you a close approximation of how much noise you can get away with.
HOLIDAY SEX IN YOUR PARENTS’ HOUSE WITHOUT GETTING CAUGHTMICHAEL ALVEARDECEMBER 15, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEThe closest approximation to this that you may have heard about was when a holographic version of the late Tupac Shakur performed at Coachella in 2012.
THIS COMPANY WANTS TO PUT A HUMAN-SIZE HOLOGRAM BOOTH IN YOUR LIVING ROOMVANESSA BATES RAMIREZNOVEMBER 25, 2020SINGULARITY HUB Pinning down exactly what coverage a team is in can be difficult, but we can get an approximation.
IN EFFECTIVE PASS COVERAGE, WHAT YOU SEE ISN’T ALWAYS WHAT YOU GETRICHARD JOHNSONNOVEMBER 11, 2020WASHINGTON POSTConveniently, this function approximation process is what we need to solve a PDE.
AI HAS CRACKED A KEY MATHEMATICAL PUZZLE FOR UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLDKAREN HAOOCTOBER 30, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWIn doing so, he devised perhaps the most famous approximation algorithm in theoretical computer science — one that usually forms the first example in textbooks and courses.
COMPUTER SCIENTISTS BREAK TRAVELING SALESPERSON RECORDERICA KLARREICHOCTOBER 8, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEBecause these fractions are small, this approximation works.
HOW TO ASSESS RISKS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMICPRADEEP MUTALIKSEPTEMBER 25, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINEBecause we cannot do that for obvious ethical reasons, everything else is an approximation.
4 REASONS YOU SHOULDN’T TRASH YOUR NECK GAITER BASED ON THE NEW MASK STUDYJONATHAN LAMBERTAUGUST 12, 2020SCIENCE NEWSHistory can never be other than an approximation to the truth, even when it relates to the events and characters of its own age.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDWORDS RELATED TO APPROXIMATION
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