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Recent Examples of calculation Such agreements required explicit calculations of the worth of each party. Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025 Ellison’s wealth stands at $393 billion, surpassing Musk, who has a measly $385 billion, according to Bloomberg’s calculations. Jordan Valinsky, CNN Money, 10 Sep. 2025 The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction assigns letter grades to each school based on student performance on standardized tests (about 80% of the grade calculation) and whether schools meet their targets for student improvement from one year to another (about 20% of the calculation). David Raynor, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025 By 2100, the average American could take in over a pound of additional sugar per year, according to calculations by Duo Chan, a climate scientist at the University of Southampton and one of the study's authors. Alejandra Borunda, NPR, 10 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for calculation
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Noun
  • Buffett waits until the long-term math makes sense, and interest rates both their absolute level and their shape across maturities are central to that equation.
    Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The math revealed something shocking.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Adopt zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multiparty computation (MPC) to validate identity attributes without exposing the raw data, making synthetic identity theft less profitable.
    Rohan Pinto, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • 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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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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