impractical
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Standard computational techniques that attempt to calculate the properties of such dynamically disordered systems demand extremely high computing power, making large-scale studies impractical.
From Science Daily
“Too small for the risk”: The plan to have the U.S. government provide an insurance solution for ships trapped in the Persian Gulf may be impractical, analysts said.
Others in the shipping business, including a maritime insurer, cautioned that the plan may be all but impractical, at least in the short term.
From MarketWatch
Yet real world adoption has lagged, largely because the hardware required to power these displays has been bulky and impractical.
From Science Daily
But this would have been impractical given the rarity of the disease, and unethical because some children would receive a placebo for a fatal disease.
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