as in math
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculation, it should take me a month to save up for the weekend getaway
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Recent Examples of calculation
Skip to the current day and supercomputers are performing a nearly unfathomable number of calculations daily to produce highly detailed weather forecasts many days into the future around the globe.
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Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Blanket preemptive pardons remain on table A far more delicate political calculation for Biden will be whether to offer blanket pardons to shield individuals who Trump has threatened.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Gigs takes over that process, as well as customer service and tax calculation automation, Frank says, shortening the setup process to weeks and cutting costs.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushed to admit the casualties sustained by his country's forces, after a substantial calculation was provided by U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Mary Gilbert, CNN, 13 Dec. 2024
Blanket preemptive pardons remain on table A far more delicate political calculation for Biden will be whether to offer blanket pardons to shield individuals who Trump has threatened.
—Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2024
Gigs takes over that process, as well as customer service and tax calculation automation, Frank says, shortening the setup process to weeks and cutting costs.
—Lucinda Shen, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushed to admit the casualties sustained by his country's forces, after a substantial calculation was provided by U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump.
—Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
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Her husband, my grandfather, was not only a composer who wrote liturgical music, motets, symphonies, and string quartets but also a beloved music teacher who believed that music was as crucial to the development of the mind as math.Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2024
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But the study authors made a math mistake, miscalculating how much of potentially toxic flame retardants a 132-pound person could safely ingest.Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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So tariff revenue will not be as high as our initial arithmetic shows, but the loss of consumer welfare will be in the ballpark of that initial figure.Bill Conerly, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Expanding that field into the new 12-team iteration changes that often-infuriating arithmetic that left deserving teams like Florida State last season, Texas A&M in 2020, UCF in 2017 and Baylor and TCU in 2014 cursing the way college football crowned a champion.David Ubben, The Athletic, 26 Aug. 2024
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Gartner predicts that by 2025, 60% of enterprise AI deployments will incorporate privacy-enhancing computation techniques.Sai Arava, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
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Willow was able to perform a computation in under five minutes that would take Frontier, the world’s fastest existing supercomputer, 10 septillion years to solve.Peter Green, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2024
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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