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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The quality of the tracks should make such calculations easier and help reconstruct the world in which these dinosaurs roamed.
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Indeed, these outdated calculations can also make young people feel a sense of guilt for their spending habits, according to Powers.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Every calculation assumes 27-student classes, 20% special education enrollment rate and a building efficiency factor of 75%.
—Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
Yet to him, this calculation at the turn of the twentieth century was still weighted in favor of the yellow metal’s worth.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2025
Indeed, these outdated calculations can also make young people feel a sense of guilt for their spending habits, according to Powers.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
Every calculation assumes 27-student classes, 20% special education enrollment rate and a building efficiency factor of 75%.
—Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024
Yet to him, this calculation at the turn of the twentieth century was still weighted in favor of the yellow metal’s worth.
—Saleem H. Ali, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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Benjamin, a senior studying math and economics at Brown University, was initially working on a project about taxis when his adviser, professor Emily Oster, made a suggestion about switching topics.Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
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In 2022, Baltimore City had 23 schools without a single student who tested proficient in math, Maryland State Department of Education data revealed.Patrick Hauf, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
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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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Researchers are exploring techniques like sparsity and quantization, which reduce the computations needed without sacrificing accuracy.Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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Google said last month its new quantum computing chip, code named Willow, did computations in five minutes that would take today's supercomputers 10 septillion years.Felix Salmon, Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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