as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
he wasn't very good at ciphering, but he had excellent language skills
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as in calculating
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total
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Noun
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The explicit goals of the long term financial plan are revenue sufficiency and rate calculation.—
Graham P. Johnson,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025 -
The law’s calculation and amount of credit was intended to be based on the volume of export.—
Catherine Muccigrosso,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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When calculating on-time performance, Cirium tracks more than 35 million flights globally per year and uses a complex methodology that factors in delays and cancellations as well as passenger volume.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Still, calculating what beneficiaries are owned may not be simple or quick.—
Kate Gibson,
CBS News,
3 Jan. 2025
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The show is really aimed at creating foundational skills in reading and arithmetic, along with lessons on proper behaviors that carry forward to the classroom.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
6 Feb. 2025
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However, the model failed on the hidden code and complex number set prompts, making basic errors in counting and/or arithmetic that one or both of the OpenAI models avoided.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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Florida’s eighth-graders struggled on the national math test, posting the state’s lowest scores in 20 years.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Feb. 2025
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Takeaways and postgame reaction February 04, 2025 10:32 PM The issue is Bradley Beal would need to be part of any Suns trade package (if Devin Booker and Kevin Durant are off the table) to make the salary-cap math work, but the Suns have been unable to find a match for Beal.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
5 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The actors' strike also posed the same problem for OD, Kojima's second game in development, powered by cloud computing technology from Microsoft's Xbox division.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
3 Jan. 2025
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The proliferation of mobile banking and the need for real-time transaction processing has pushed computing to the edge.—
Ramasankar Molleti,
Forbes,
3 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The deep learning approach leveraging massively parallel computation made the metrics go up, but the teams at Meta didn’t know why one piece of content was winning over another because the decisions were being made inside the deep learning black box.—
Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
11 Feb. 2025
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With those computations in hand, the attacker can then run code reserved for one data structure on another data structure.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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