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German: Anzahlen

English translation: quantities



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German term or phrase:Anzahlen
English translation:quantities
Entered by:Stephen Sadie
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Tech/Engineering - Mathematics & Statistics
German term or phrase: Anzahlen
This is from the statistical area in SixSigma. Two items on a PP presentation:
1) Bei Anzahlen muß der Betrachtungsraum bekannt sein.
2) Bei Anzahlen sollten seltene Ereignisse bewertet werden.
I only know this term in the financial sense!
TYFYH
Stephen Sadie
Germany
Clarification request(s) and response
Stephen Sadie (asker): 5:40pm Jul 8, 2005: @norbert: frankly i am very unsure
Stephen Sadie (asker): 5:44pm Jul 8, 2005: @andrea: how would you word the sentence then? i am honestly a little stuck and very tired, nonstop since 5 this morning!

amounts / quantities
Explanation:
Does this make sense within the context?
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ntext
United States
Note from asker to answerer
thanks norbert and everybody else
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +2amounts / quantities
ntext
4numbers of a well-ordered setandrealondon
3counts
Brie Vernier
2numericalyZareh Darakjian Ph.D.


  


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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
amounts / quantities

Explanation:
Does this make sense within the context?

ntext
United States
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 12
Note from asker to answerer
thanks norbert and everybody else

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree bell-issima: yes
15 mins

agree Ken Cox: sounds like 'quantities' to me
1 hr
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
numbers of a well-ordered set

Explanation:
look at ref. hopes it helps


    Reference: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/rancho.pancho/Abstra.htm
andrealondon
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ItalianItalian
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5
numericaly

Explanation:
I am not sure here... but may be

1) The analytical space must be known numerically.

2) Rare events must be evaluated numerically.

Zareh Darakjian Ph.D.
United States
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in ArmenianArmenian
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
counts

Explanation:
I think this fits better. See e.g. http://www.qualitydigest.com/may01/html/sixsigma.html

and http://www.qualitydigest.com/may01/html/sixsigma.html under "discrete data"

and http://www.asq.org/pub/qualityprogress/past/0102/27sidebar01...

Brie Vernier
Germany
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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