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
The study’s results bolster claims by many researchers and medical providers that BMI—a calculation that compares someone’s weight to their height—is a flawed way to assess obesity and, by extension, health risk.
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Alyssa Hui, Health, 16 Jan. 2025
According to their calculation, each car sold due to the incentive (roughly 25% of the total number of vehicles sold) came at a cost to taxpayers of $32,000.
—Veronique De Rugy, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
This necessitates precise calculations before each flight.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
The United States’ ranking is held down by its lack of reciprocity, according to how Henley & Partners makes its calculations.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
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Alyssa Hui, Health, 16 Jan. 2025
According to their calculation, each car sold due to the incentive (roughly 25% of the total number of vehicles sold) came at a cost to taxpayers of $32,000.
—Veronique De Rugy, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
This necessitates precise calculations before each flight.
—John Mac Ghlionn, Newsweek, 13 Jan. 2025
The United States’ ranking is held down by its lack of reciprocity, according to how Henley & Partners makes its calculations.
—Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes, 8 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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Visa critics point to Census data that show only 28% of U.S. college graduates with degrees in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) actually work in STEM jobs.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA TODAY,
16 Jan. 2025
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Our schools are in desperate need of a reset back to focusing on reading, writing, and arithmetic leaving all the social ideologies to be handled at home by the parents.—
Andy Humbles,
The Tennessean,
18 July 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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This consists of an input layer that receives a signal, an optical cavity that acts like a second layer containing feedback loops (or recurrent loops) that can be tweaked to change the device behavior and an output layer that produces the result of this computation.—
The Physics arXiv Blog,
Discover Magazine,
16 Jan. 2025
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The problem is that this cascading requires massive parallel computations that, when done on standard computers, take tons of energy and time.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
12 Jan. 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.
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