Extending this forward through our forecast period, a back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests an upside of around 15% to our price estimate for NYT stock.
And a back-of-the-envelope calculation based on the 1.8m sorts of organism recognised so far as species under the Linnaean system, on the rate at which new species are being discovered and on such ecological matters as the average number of parasites (themselves new species) that each free-living species harbours, suggests the final total may be around 30m.
It authorizes the transaction and sends bits whizzing back, a 39, 000-kilometer roundtrip journey that involves five stops plus a calculation of how much to charge the merchant in fees and how to divvy up those fees among the banks.