arithmetics

plural of arithmetic
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
  • The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Russell and his colleagues did some calculations and found that solar flares could actually be over 100 million degrees Fahrenheit, and quite possibly hotter.
    Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 5 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
  • The only problem is, economists can’t quite figure out his maths.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2025
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  • Each Turing machine performs computations in discrete steps according to a unique list of simple rules.
    Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Many researchers believe that consciousness is nothing more than the complexity of neural computations.
    Adam Frank, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Arithmetics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/arithmetics. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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