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calculate, cipher, figure, reckon, work out
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Sunday’s event was aimed at making clear that storied, troubled, Intel can still deliver huge growth in computing power as the industry has provided in the past half-century. — Tom Simonite, WIRED, "Intel's New Chip Wizard Has a Plan to Bring Back the Magic," 3 July 2019 These futuristic ideas are proof for Amazon and its backers that the world will always need the same resources that the company provides now: digital infrastructure, storage, and computing power. — James Vincent, The Verge, "I welcomed our new robot overlords at Amazon’s first AI conference," 27 June 2019 Moore’s law, the famous guideline stating (roughly) that computing power doubles every two years, is exponential. — Kevin Hartnett, Scientific American, "A New “Law” Suggests Quantum Supremacy Could Happen This Year," 21 June 2019 Moore’s law, the famous guideline stating (roughly) that computing power doubles every two years, is exponential. — Quanta Magazine, "A New Law to Describe Quantum Computing’s Rise?," 18 June 2019 Built on the computer coding revolution of the mid-20th century, using charts and graphics to communicate statistical information began to take off in the 1980s and 1990s, as computers and computing power became cheaper. — Dan Kopf, Quartz, "The multibillion-dollar sales of Tableau and Looker are a coming of age for data visualization," 12 June 2019 Think of it like Amazon’s AWS business, but instead of offering computing power on tap, its robotic mobility. — James Vincent, The Verge, "Boston Dynamics prepares to launch its first commercial robot: Spot," 5 June 2019 And that’s not to mention its advances in computing power and artificial intelligence. — Sarah Scoles, Discover Magazine, "Are Humans or Robots Better Fit for Exploring Space?," 12 Mar. 2019 Meanwhile, Amazon has expanded into new lines of business, such as groceries, and amassed a massive cloud-computing footprint. — Anchorage Daily News, "Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compute.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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