fudge factor

With a 3 percent fudge factor typically included for such projects, the total cost would be $95.5 million.

"I make it eight hours, fifteen minutes, with a fudge factor of about 6 percent."

Still, it makes them uneasy to be introducing such fudge factors.

In earlier years, the fudge factor was seven minutes.

Just a few years later, though, Einstein was rethinking his fudge factor.

A fudge factor, on the other hand, can often be tweaked in more than one direction.

The key to history, it appears, is the Fudge Factor.

How did he and his 80-year-old fudge factor come to be at the center of a revolution in modern cosmology?

Is it really Einstein's old fudge factor returned to haunt his children?

In other words, a fudge factor of underexposure is built in.

"That might be a fudge factor, but taxes, transportation and available work force are what companies are really looking for."

Even after adding a fudge factor for modesty, differences in expectations were striking.

Come close as you can, no fudge factors, please."

Relieved of their fudge factor, the equations describing Einstein's universe were simple.

For years, scientists agreed, dismissing lambda as "that fudge factor."

So Einstein added a fudge factor that he called the cosmological constant to his equations.

It had no fudge factors - no dials to twiddle.

Looks as if the number of slowpokes, the second wave, will just about match the original fudge factor."

But his fudge factor refused to die.

But it justified, in retrospect, his fudge factor.

There was a fudge factor: the frictional coefficient of the "interstellar gas."

Fudge factors are frequently adjusted incorrectly by programmers who don't fully understand their import.

This variation may have some physiological significance and/or it may be just a "fudge factor".

The songs were however remixed and/or re-released in those years, so the fudge factor fits.

A common feature of "fudge factors" in science is their arbitrariness, and their retrospective nature.