fluctuations

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Complaints have mushroomed for months about World Cup ticket price fluctuations caused by sophisticated algorithms that can dramatically increase costs based on demand.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Factoring out fluctuations in gas prices and foreign exchange, Costco’s same-store sales rose 6.6%.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

According to the researchers, this shows that equatorial sunlight changes alone were capable of driving major climate fluctuations.

From Science Daily • May 27, 2026

And that in turn, could lead to some interesting price fluctuations for Amazon stock.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Studies reporting small nonzero correlations are often merely reporting chance fluctuations, and are about as meaningful as a coin being flipped fifty times and not coming up heads half the time.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos