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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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 -
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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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
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And it’s now known that origami can be used to perform all sorts of computations.—
Kevin Hartnett,
Quanta Magazine,
6 Oct. 2025
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According to the team, these computations should make the system feasible for industrial-scale use.—
Jacek Krywko,
ArsTechnica,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Arithmetics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arithmetics. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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