The early notion that double or triple suns would not have planets because of their irregularity had been an erroneous estimate, fortunately.

An article last Sunday about living in Watchung, N.J., included a town official's erroneous estimate of the deer population.

The defective system on which the military accounts were kept occasioned a very erroneous estimate of the cost of the Second Afghan War of 1878-80.

In places where trees or structures impede the near-surface wind, the use of a constant 1/7 exponent may yield quite erroneous estimates, and the log wind profile is preferred.

The change in instrumentation, enclosure and location can lead to a jump in, for example, the measured temperature or precipitation values, which can lead to erroneous estimates of climate trends.

Erroneous estimates by the states cause problems for the President and Congress because the Federal Government relies on state estimates in writing the budget for Medicaid, which finances health care for 27 million poor people.

He claimed that Arnold's account showed that Arnold was incorrectly estimating his height, believing himself level to mountains four thousand feet below him giving him erroneous estimates of the level, distance, and speed of the objects.

"The State Department notified Yugoslav diplomats on Jan. 16," it said, that in early January the State Department spokesman, Richard A. Boucher, "cited a completely erroneous estimate of 70,000 prisoners on Yugoslavia's territory."

The perceived missile gap that ensued was based on a comparison between US ICBM strength as then programmed, and reasonable, although erroneous estimates of prospective Soviet ICBM strength that were generally accepted.