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
According to the company, this same computation would take Frontier, currently considered the world’s fastest supercomputer and operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and U.S. Department of Energy, 10 septillion years to solve.
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Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2025
Clearly, this is a multi-dimensional computation, and not a matter of guesswork.
—Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The calcium ion served as a local memory and was used in computations, while the strontium ion served as one of the two ends of the quantum network.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
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Britney Nguyen, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2025
Clearly, this is a multi-dimensional computation, and not a matter of guesswork.
—Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2025
Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 18 Feb. 2025
The calcium ion served as a local memory and was used in computations, while the strontium ion served as one of the two ends of the quantum network.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for computation
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
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Her son simply made a statistical calculation based on probability theory and realized that the odds of both lunches being wrong were considerably different from the odds of a single order getting messed up.—
Rob Long,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
21 Mar. 2025
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What initiatives, clients, and/or offerings weigh the most in your performance evaluation, raise and bonus calculations and promotion decisions?—
Caroline Ceniza-Levine,
Forbes,
21 Mar. 2025
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Its government has long emphasized science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education.—
Kevin Rennie,
Hartford Courant,
29 Mar. 2025
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Tucker graduated from Duke University in 2019 with a major in math and served as the sports editor for its student newspaper, The Chronicle.—
Hank Tucker,
Forbes.com,
28 Mar. 2025
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The victory completes a Damascene conversion in German politics – using the outgoing parliamentary arithmetic.—
Sebastian Shukla,
CNN,
18 Mar. 2025
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This particular bump, as opposed to the previous ones in NBA history, is not driven by simple arithmetic.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
7 Jan. 2025
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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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