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Diesis

A small interval less than any in actual practice but used in the mathematical calculation of intervals

Reckoning

The act of one who reckons counts or computes the result of reckoning or counting calculation

Damages

are either liquidated or unliquidated. Whenever the amount to which the plaintiff is entitled can be ascertained by calculation or fixed by any scale or other positive data, it is said to be 'liquidated' or made clear.

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Clerical or arithmetical error

and does not depend for its discovery on argument or disputation. An arithmetical error is a mistake of calculation, and a clerical error is a mistake in writing or typing, Sooraj Devi v. Pyare Lal, (1981) 2

fudge factor

a term or factor inserted into a calculation to compensate for anticipated errors or to arbitrarily make the result conform to some desired conclusion

Assessment of damages

which have based on the number of years that the expectancy would probably have lasted: central to that calculation is the probable length of the deceased's working life at the date of death, Uttar Pradesh State Road

Average

months or four complete weeks or twelve full working days, as the case may be, and where such calculation cannot be made, the average pay shall be calculated as the average of the wages payable to a

Parameter

A constant number which is part of a theory function or calculation whose value is not determined by the form of the theory or equation itself and may in some

Palinurus

An instrument for obtaining directly without calculation the true bearing of the sun and thence the variation of the compass

Incalculable

Not capable of being calculated beyond calculation very great as his action did incalculable harm

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