I'm going to show how I'd come up with a ballpark estimate.
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But thanks to Uproxx's Zach Johnston, we now have a pretty good ballpark estimate.
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Rather, it gives us a ballpark estimate of bitcoin's energy consumption according to basic economic theory.
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Jim Shivers, a spokesman for Caltrans, said that even a ballpark estimate for reopening was impossible.
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Software involving 3D graphics is, if I had to give a ballpark estimate, like, 3x as difficult.
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Experts say a ballpark estimate for annual total sales for Ivanka Trump goods is less than $100 million.
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If the sample is less than 400, the result should be considered no more than a ballpark estimate.
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It's not precise, but it more or less is decent at delivering a ballpark estimate of your daily activity.
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"I knew a ballpark estimate of what to expect for my starting salary in the technology field," he says.
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It's like giving a ballpark estimate—you get a sense of something, but you don't know the exact particulars.
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Let's rerun the numbers with a little more precision, though we won't change Greenstein's ballpark estimate of the cost.
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Mr. Kudlow said on Sunday that the $200 billion number was a "rough ballpark estimate" that both sides had used.
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"The (Fitbits) give a pretty decent ballpark estimate of activity levels, but these are difficult elements to measure perfectly," Montoye said.
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A good business broker can give you a ballpark estimate as well as the typical costs associated with selling a franchise.
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Apple hasn't given a figure for Apple Watch sales, but it did give a way to figure out a ballpark estimate.
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In short, there are simply too many unknowns to get anything better than a ballpark estimate of future Bitcoin energy consumption.
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Based on studies, Knopp says serious commitments should never be made sooner than a year in, at least — but that's just a ballpark estimate.
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The length of this particular homer is clearly a ballpark estimate, based on photographic evidence and meteorological records (76 degrees, a 21 m.p.h. wind).
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Cunningham said a ballpark estimate for the value of the five units collectively would be about $3.7 million once it's all said and done.
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The RCMP said Thursday they expect 1,000 women to come forward, which is how they decided on the "ballpark estimate" of $75 million in compensation.
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Since the median worth on Forbes' list is about $2 billion, a ballpark estimate of annual income is one-tenth of this, or $20173 million.
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As a ballpark estimate, you'd have to measure a typical system's initial conditions 100,000,000 times more accurately to predict its future evolution eight times further ahead.
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The difference between yields on these adjusted bonds and standard Treasury bonds is often used as a ballpark estimate for inflation expectations among bond market investors.
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Back in 2013, astronomers started to get an inkling that brown dwarfs are a fairly common fixture of the galaxy, offering a ballpark estimate of 70 billion.
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Chi gives his ballpark estimate as six times or every three or four hours, during waking hours, but "there is a lot of variation of normal," he says.
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You need to first run a calculation to see if you are on target to retire by 65 by using the "ballpark estimate" at a website like choosetosave.org.
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That gives them a ballpark estimate for the roof cost (including materials, installation and the cost of removing your old roof), at which point they factor in the cost of a Powerwall battery.
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Duke is now in its second year of issuing a spring debt letter to each student, which details their loans and gives a ballpark estimate of what monthly payments will be after graduation.
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A 2009 CBO analysis of Medicare buy-in suggested that premiums of about $600 per month would be appropriate, a figure that will be somewhat out of date but should still offer a ballpark estimate.
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Two days later, he said that the number was merely a "rough ballpark estimate," and that the two countries never expected to reach an agreement and merely planned to issue a statement laying out next steps.
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Jason Furman, an economist and professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, offered a ballpark estimate following the President's remarks, suggested a 10% income tax cut might cost nearly $2 trillion over the next decade.
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Seth Masket, a political science professor at the University of Denver, said his best "ballpark estimate" is that Sanders would cost the Democratic Party 2 to 3 percentage points in a general election compared with a more conventional nominee.
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One way to generate a ballpark estimate on how much you'll spend is by calculating its 5-Year Cost to Own figure — which is the total you'll likely have to cover during the first five years of owning your car.
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The researchers used an equation that relates the body and brain weight of modern South American rodents to get a ballpark estimate for N. acreensis, then compared that with the brain weight implied by the volume of the cavity in the skull.
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"They'll have to gauge the appetite on the ground, and make some sensible ballpark estimate of the implications," said Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a former C.B.O. director who is now the president of the American Action Forum, a right-leaning policy research group.
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Replacing 6 million lead services lines, a ballpark estimate at best, could cost as little as $33 billion (the estimate from the American Water Works Association) or as much as $275 billion (the estimate from Fitch Ratings, which analyzes municipal finance and bond markets).
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"We are no longer, I believe, in a market where people by expectation will consider 8, 10, 12 percent or more per year, many times after tax, to be a ballpark estimate of what they're trying to do for their funds," said Breyer, founder and CEO of global venture capital firm Breyer Capital.
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So, if I had to, at a high landscape, describe what's happening, we are no longer, I believe, in a market where people, by expectation, will consider 8, 10, 183% or more per year, many times after tax, to be a ballpark estimate of what they're trying to do for their funds, whether it's a private equity fund, whether it's a venture capital fund, whether it's an endowment.
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Ballpark, in the ballpark, ballpark figure, and out of the ballpark — "Ballpark" has been used to mean a broad area of approximation or similarity, or a range within which comparison is possible; this usage the Oxford English Dictionary dates to 1960. Another meaning, "sphere of activity or influence", is cited in 1963. "In the (right) ballpark", meaning "within reasonable bounds" dates to 1968. A "ballpark figure" or "ballpark estimate", one that is reasonably accurate, dates to 1967.
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Retrieved Nov 3, 2012. a two- page worksheet that identifies a person’s general savings target for a comfortable retirement. It is used as the retirement calculator for federal employees on the Office of Personnel Management’s Federal Ballpark E$timate website“Federal Ballpark E$timate,” - U.S. OPM, Retirement Information and Services. Retrieved Nov 3, 2012. and also by the U.S. Thrift Savings Plan on its website.“How Much Should I Save (Ballpark Estimate)?” - Thrift Savings Plan website. Retrieved Nov 3, 2012.
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Price forecasts from a few hours to a few months ahead have become of particular interest to power portfolio managers. A power market company able to forecast the volatile wholesale prices with a reasonable level of accuracy can adjust its bidding strategy and its own production or consumption schedule in order to reduce the risk or maximize the profits in day-ahead trading. A ballpark estimate of savings from a 1% reduction in the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) of short-term price forecasts is $300,000 per year for a utility with 1GW peak load.
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