as in maths
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 calculations
The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.
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Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Russell and his colleagues did some calculations and found that solar flares could actually be over 100 million degrees Fahrenheit, and quite possibly hotter.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Samsung did not specify how the two chips differ, but MediaTek says the 9400+ is built more specifically for AI applications and is 20% faster than the MediaTek 9400 at agentic AI calculations.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
This was previously excluded from most structural calculations.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
To test his calculations, Manabe created a very simple climate model.
—Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
The calculations also used survey data from the past three years.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
No single dataset includes all the information required for those calculations, and the major 2021 reorganization of the way risk is calculated for the National Flood Insurance Program makes things even more tricky.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
And Billy Perrigo reports from Paris on the geopolitical calculations and risks that accompany the competition for achieving artificial general intelligence.
—Sam Jacobs, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
Russell and his colleagues did some calculations and found that solar flares could actually be over 100 million degrees Fahrenheit, and quite possibly hotter.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
Samsung did not specify how the two chips differ, but MediaTek says the 9400+ is built more specifically for AI applications and is 20% faster than the MediaTek 9400 at agentic AI calculations.
—PC Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025
This was previously excluded from most structural calculations.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025
To test his calculations, Manabe created a very simple climate model.
—Nadir Jeevanjee, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2025
The calculations also used survey data from the past three years.
—Cheryl V. Jackson, IndyStar, 3 Sep. 2025
No single dataset includes all the information required for those calculations, and the major 2021 reorganization of the way risk is calculated for the National Flood Insurance Program makes things even more tricky.
—Andrea Riquier, USA Today, 29 Aug. 2025
And Billy Perrigo reports from Paris on the geopolitical calculations and risks that accompany the competition for achieving artificial general intelligence.
—Sam Jacobs, Time, 28 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
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Replicating those buffers of points in the bag before the turn of the year would put Leeds ahead of the maths and perhaps turn their springtime fixtures into a matter of consolidation rather than a scramble for survival.—
Sukhman Singh,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The only problem is, economists can’t quite figure out his maths.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 Aug. 2025
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Unlike digital computers that crunch information in binary, the AOC embodies computations in physical systems.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Sep. 2025
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Each Turing machine performs computations in discrete steps according to a unique list of simple rules.—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
22 Aug. 2025
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Her comments come as Democrats face a leadership crossroads in Washington, with long-serving figures under scrutiny and younger candidates pushing for change.—
Samantha-Jo Roth,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Sep. 2025
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Plenty of timepiece brands increased their prices, too, in response to those initial tariff figures back in April, according to Hodinkee.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.
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