How to Use mathematical in a Sentence

mathematical

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  • The team has only a mathematical chance of making the play-offs.
  • They recorded the changes with mathematical precision.
  • McIlroy had a mathematical chance to return to No. 1 in the world, but only by winning.
    — Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Their work joins a handful of other trigonometric proofs that were added to the mathematical archives over the years.
    — Leila Sloman, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2023
  • One of the biggest mathematical discoveries of the past year was the proof of a new, tighter upper bound to Ramsey numbers.
    — Quanta Magazine, 23 Dec. 2023
  • To make this work, the mass of the tachyon has to be imaginary, but in the mathematical sense: Its mass would be multiplied by a factor of the square root of negative one.
    — Paul M. Sutter, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The album, out in early May, is his final LP of a set of records named after mathematical symbols.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2023
  • In the standard model, simply plugging in the W and Z masses ruins the mathematical symmetry that produces the weak force in the first place.
    — Byadrian Cho, science.org, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The first person to harness this power was Georg Cantor, the founder of the mathematical subfield of set theory.
    — WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Last May, Albrecht asked one agent to solve a tricky mathematical puzzle.
    — WIRED, 19 Sep. 2023
  • In Heisenberg’s mathematical language, the state of the particles doesn’t change.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The mathematical modeling used in the study showed both species are much more likely to die from being eaten than from food scarcity.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 13 Mar. 2023
  • That mathematical sleight of hand meant that eCash was provably secure.
    — Andy Greenberg, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
  • In some years, the favorites will dominate, like the final pre-pandemic Tonys when 22 of the 26 mathematical favorites took home prizes.
    — Ben Zauzmer, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2023
  • But some mathematical head could tell me what the probabilities of this were.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 23 Oct. 2023
  • How did the players feel about the decision? Earlier this week, Doncic vowed to continue to play as long as Dallas had a mathematical chance to reach the play-in.
    — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Much like how Albert Einstein proved the theorem at the age of 12, an amazing mathematical proof has once again come from the ingenuity of young minds.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • What’s more, these cells follow a mathematical pattern based on size and mass that appears elsewhere in nature.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Certainly since 2007, when there was at least a mathematical chance of elimination in the final group game.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 31 July 2023
  • Subtract, out May 5, is Sheeran’s final LP of a set of records named after mathematical symbols.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Quilting is a craft that requires the use of the brain and the body, that involves the senses of sight, touch, sound, and smell, that requires mathematical calculation, forward planning, and rapt attention.
    — Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
  • In these cases, having the spin glass find its ground state is the mathematical equivalent of finding the optimal solution to a problem.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Peter, aghast, points out the mathematical fallacy, but Simon’s mind is made up.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 28 Sep. 2023
  • And there's a very simple mathematical reason for that number.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That left seven others still in mathematical contention for the play-in tournament.
    — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Coders create programs, and those programs bring mathematical problems to the C.P.U., which produces one solution at a time.
    — Stephen Witt, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • For people around the world excited by the mathematical significance of pi and the broad potential for honorary puns related to it, there are plenty of ways to pay homage.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Human players, freed from the burdens of mathematical precision, can and do change their Wordle openers throughout the year.
    — Aatish Bhatia, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The Chicago School used complicated mathematical models to sort the good monopolists from the bad ones.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • There were also all sorts of statistical and mathematical safeguards to ensure that the results could be trusted.
    — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023

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