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
As a result, our calculations do not include a slew of Mountain West games that were shown on CBSSN last season.
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Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Google last year unveiled an experimental quantum computer that completed calculations in five minutes that most supercomputers could not finish in 10 septillion years.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Blythe reported the temperature was at 9 degrees at the time of the stop, and a weather.com calculation indicated the real feel was -19 degrees at 55 mph for Chica.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
The explicit goals of the long term financial plan are revenue sufficiency and rate calculation.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2025
Google last year unveiled an experimental quantum computer that completed calculations in five minutes that most supercomputers could not finish in 10 septillion years.
—Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Blythe reported the temperature was at 9 degrees at the time of the stop, and a weather.com calculation indicated the real feel was -19 degrees at 55 mph for Chica.
—Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2025
The explicit goals of the long term financial plan are revenue sufficiency and rate calculation.
—Graham P. Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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Operating margin should go from 17% to roughly 30% during that period, which bakes in a level of conservatism based on the math above.—
StockStory Team,
CNBC,
22 Feb. 2025
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But the math obviously works with 16; both the Big 12 and SEC will have 16-team events.—
Jon Wilner,
The Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2025
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One is to vote in a change to the debt brake (difficult given parliamentary arithmetic — there is talk of doing it in this parliament), declare an emergency ‘event’ that merits high spending as was the case with Covid-19 and it will be argued that President Donald Trump has created a crisis.—
Mike O'Sullivan,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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His pitch encountered initial resistance from potential members, given the arithmetic: Twenty percent higher costs for planting, while yielding 25 percent less coffee.—
Peter S. Goodman,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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Reliance on decentralized network means better performance and reduced latency, as computations happen closer to end-users.—
Tyler Shepherd,
USA TODAY,
21 Feb. 2025
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By contrast, following Google’s announcement of its Willow chip in early December 2024, its head of Quantum AI stated that Willow lends credence to the notion that quantum computation occurs in many parallel universes.—
Pravir Malik,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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