How to Use compute in a Sentence
compute
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The thought bloomed that something had happened to his sister but still wouldn’t fully compute in Phillips' mind.
— Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024 -
This mostly reflects 50 years of progress in computing hardware.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019 -
This is not to say that there aren’t real challenges for a sustained expansion of computing power supply.
— Nathan Warren, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024 -
The contrasting messages of the inviting phrase and ferocious creature did not compute.
— Lisa Bonos, Dallas News, 23 July 2019 -
More recently, the pace slowed and the futures of Intel and computing have appeared less tightly bound.
— Tom Simonite, WIRED, 3 July 2019 -
That is, each number of the sequence could be computed precisely, but the resulting pattern appeared to be complex and random.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 July 2019 -
The company’s cloud computing performance continues to dwarf revenue from the No.
— Jay Greene, Washington Post, 25 July 2019 -
That includes its business that rents computing power to other companies, as well as its enterprise software tools such as G Suite.
— Washington Post, 25 July 2019 -
Today, most bitcoin mining is done using specialized hardware capable of computing trillions of hashes per second.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 9 July 2019 -
Insurers allocate an average of 3.6% of their revenue to computing technology—about half the share that is typical for banks.
— The Economist, 20 July 2019 -
Just does not compute in my mind of what that looks like.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 16 June 2022 -
The concept of a ‘revenge game’ does not compute for these guys.
— oregonlive, 18 Nov. 2022 -
The software will ask you simple questions and compute all the math for you.
— Kristen Doerer, ProPublica, 3 Mar. 2023 -
Thin and lightweight, the LG Gram Pro is the perfect choice for computing on the go.
— PCMAG, 8 Oct. 2024 -
The thresholds computed in this way are all less than 3, so the triples relate to the part of the spectrum below 3.
— Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 -
The program that does the detection would compute a value based on the text and be able to compare that to a stored key.
— Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022 -
This gives the iPad Pro a greater ability to compute AI tasks on-device.
— Eric Zeman, PCMAG, 15 May 2024 -
The next task was to figure out how to compute the Berry curvature using QAC.
— Spyridon Michalakis, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2020 -
There are seven ways to demonstrate that 2% doesn’t compute.
— Rick Helfenbein, Forbes, 10 May 2021 -
Ivan Sutherland has blazed a truly unique trail through computing over the past six decades.
— IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023 -
More analogies come to mind, right away, as my brain tries to compute what is happening.
— The Indianapolis Star, 21 Dec. 2022 -
Yes, the Big 12 has been anointed as the best men’s basketball conference in the land by those who talk and those who compute.
— Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023 -
The thresholds in the Markov spectrum come from a number c in this sequence by computing sqrt(9 - 4/c^2).
— Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023 -
Servers leave them on tables at meal’s end, and customers insert cards, compute tips and sign.
— Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2019 -
But Winter Olympics sports not named hockey just don’t compute.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022 -
By measuring the motions of stars, astronomers hope to compute the orbits of stars around the galaxy—and therefore, the structure of the Milky Way.
— H.j. McCracken, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2022 -
Any of these can be in local hardware or take advantage of cloud compute from Azure.
— Michael Muchmore, PCMAG, 24 May 2022 -
Not anytime in the near future, and for two reasons, one of which is computing power.
— Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2019 -
Theft of resources: This refers to the unauthorized use of computing resources.
— Dan Branco, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023 -
The amount of debt gets added to the city’s operating tax rate to compute a homeowner’s final city tax bill.
— Wells Dusenbury, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Sep. 2020
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