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"Fudge factor" nghĩa là gì?
04 Apr, 2017
A wise man is astonished by everything. Photo courtesy Todd Huffman.
'Fudge factor' có từ fudge là việc làm giả dối, cụm từ này nghĩa là một con số được đưa vào một phép tính để giải thích cho sai sót hoặc tình huống không lường trước, hoặc để đảm bảo một kết quả mong muốn (a figure included in a calculation to account for error or unanticipated circumstances, or to ensure a desired result); yếu tố giả dối.
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Meintjes pointed out that non-disclosure was the primary source of claims being rejected, and calls this the fudge factor – where people aren’t 100% honest in the information they provide.
The seasonal adjustments are supposed to compensate for the usual deep freeze of February. After applying the fudge factor, construction jobs supposedly jumped by 58,000—triple the norm of the past year, and in a sector that’s slowing, Rosenberg adds.
Where did all the energy go? Einstein originally believed the universe would collapse inward on itself, yet it was not doing so. So he invented the "cosmological constant," a sort of "fudge factor" to hold the universe at a constant size. The factor was equivalent to 68 percent of the energy of the universe, which nobody could account for.
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