as in math
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculation, it should take me a month to save up for the weekend getaway
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Recent Examples of calculation
The Performance and Users tabs used a different calculation method that did account for the total number of cores in a system.
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Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2025
Computers can help with brute force calculations that might give cribbage players an advantage.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
This problem, known as the matrix permanent problem, is notoriously difficult to solve for large matrices, and there’s no simple way to check whether a calculation is correct.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
The Suns' calculation with Beal was somewhat different than the Bucks' with Lillard.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
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Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 29 July 2025
Computers can help with brute force calculations that might give cribbage players an advantage.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 29 July 2025
This problem, known as the matrix permanent problem, is notoriously difficult to solve for large matrices, and there’s no simple way to check whether a calculation is correct.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2025
The Suns' calculation with Beal was somewhat different than the Bucks' with Lillard.
—Bryan Toporek, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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For a lot of young professionals, the math isn’t mathing.—
Kimberly Wilson,
Essence,
28 July 2025
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Lehrer retired from performing in the 70s, turning to teaching math.—
Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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Beginning in 1970, Edwards and a close friend began teaching a class, one afternoon a week, at Argonne National Laboratory, instructing members of the lab’s custodial staff on reading, writing and basic arithmetic.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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Researchers have also made progress identifying the procedures that language models use to perform tasks such as retrieving relevant words from earlier in a sentence, identifying the grammatical function (opens a new tab) of certain words or doing simple arithmetic (opens a new tab).—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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Willow performed a standardized benchmark computation, known as the RCS, in under five minutes — something that would have taken today's fastest supercomputers about 10 septillion years to perform.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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These components of the Spatial Web will all simply, like other protocols and standards before it, just do the hard communication and computation work behind the scenes.—
Gabriel René,
IEEE Spectrum,
24 July 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 5 Aug. 2025.
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