as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
we were able to divide the dinner bill fairly with a little computation
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Recent Examples of computation
Every step in a quantum computation is another source of error, as is the error-correction procedure itself.
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Researchers are exploring techniques like sparsity and quantization, which reduce the computations needed without sacrificing accuracy.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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
Coal, oil, and natural gas consumption shows no signs of slowing down, and demand for light, heat, movement, and computation is only growing.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 28 Dec. 2024
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Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
Researchers are exploring techniques like sparsity and quantization, which reduce the computations needed without sacrificing accuracy.
—Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
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
Coal, oil, and natural gas consumption shows no signs of slowing down, and demand for light, heat, movement, and computation is only growing.
—Umair Irfan, Vox, 28 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
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In terms of the wins above replacement (WAR) statistic for pitchers based on Baseball-Reference’s calculation, the best comparisons for Sabathia (61.8) are Hall of Fame right-handers Juan Marichal (61.8) and Don Drysdale (61.3).—
Wayne G. McDonnell, Jr.,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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As part of an annual revision to preliminary figures, the statistics bureau in late December revised the 2023 GDP growth to 7.4%, according to a CNBC calculation of the official data.—
Anniek Bao,Evelyn Cheng,
CNBC,
17 Jan. 2025
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools saw improvement in elementary math scores in 2024, but otherwise remained relatively stagnant, according to new data released Wednesday.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
29 Jan. 2025
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America’s struggling students have fallen further behind in math and reading.—
Jacob Turcotte,
The Christian Science Monitor,
29 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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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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