as in calculations
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
I haven't actually done the arithmetic yet, but I suspect we're losing money on the deal
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Noun
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Our software is built on engineering-grade calculations.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
12 Sep. 2025 -
Should revenues hover at $5–6 billion while the market applies even lower sales multiples, the calculations suggest a stock price around $3—half of the current levels.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Make daily physical activity as routine as maths and reading.—
William Warr,
Time,
15 Sep. 2025
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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
Noun
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Shortly after, miners realized that GPUs were more adept at handling the parallel computations demanded by Bitcoin's algorithm.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 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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“Arithmetics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arithmetics. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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