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
In other words, the future belongs to human originality, not computation.
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Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
The difference this time is that there are only a few who can do the buildout, namely Oracle and Coreweave, as well as Nvidia and other chipmakers that help out in the computation and communications process.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The team tweaked the LLMs to ensure compatibility with FHE, such as replacing some complex mathematical functions with their approximations for more efficient computation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
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Big Think, 2 Oct. 2025
The difference this time is that there are only a few who can do the buildout, namely Oracle and Coreweave, as well as Nvidia and other chipmakers that help out in the computation and communications process.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2025
With RoboBallet, the complexity of computation also grew with the complexity of the system, but at a far slower rate.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
The team tweaked the LLMs to ensure compatibility with FHE, such as replacing some complex mathematical functions with their approximations for more efficient computation.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
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The team’s calculations showed that the typical mass of the heavy neutrinos and the energy released from knot collapse led to the universe reheating to 100 GeV.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Oct. 2025
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Through several calculations of length, width, and depth, Manzur achieves these different sizes while guaranteeing that each basin can hold an equivalent volume of water.—
Mario Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
23 Oct. 2025
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Florida’s chief financial officer brought his tax-cut campaign to Miami on Thursday, using some basic math to insist the city spends too much on salaries and services.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
24 Oct. 2025
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Other farm animals were inside a school, eating the math books.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Simple arithmetic such as 355/113 could be calculated in place by selecting the text and pressing USE FRONT-CALC (Control-G), which yields the answer with a dotted underline to indicate the result of a computation.—
Cameron Kaiser,
ArsTechnica,
12 Sep. 2025
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The arithmetic of the French National Assembly – the key hurdle to getting any budget passed – hasn’t changed with a new prime minister.—
Joseph Ataman,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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