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
These calculations are estimates, and every family’s situation is different.
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Addy Bink, The Hill, 21 June 2025
Chris Weatherspoon What impact will this have on Liverpool’s PSR calculation?
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
The European aircraft manufacturer had racked up nearly $21 billion of orders as of Thursday morning, per a Reuters calculation.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Waiting for the lasers The key questions are when it will be released, and when its successor, which should be capable of performing some real calculations, will follow it?
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
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Addy Bink, The Hill, 21 June 2025
Chris Weatherspoon What impact will this have on Liverpool’s PSR calculation?
—Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 June 2025
The European aircraft manufacturer had racked up nearly $21 billion of orders as of Thursday morning, per a Reuters calculation.
—Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 20 June 2025
Waiting for the lasers The key questions are when it will be released, and when its successor, which should be capable of performing some real calculations, will follow it?
—ArsTechnica, 20 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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Here’s what the math on that decision could look like, theoretically: Long-term in 2025 option Marner signs next week for seven years around $13 million, which equates to $91 million.—
James Mirtle,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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The math isn’t mathing, though—especially now that the same team is working with Shamea, Kelli’s new BFF.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
22 June 2025
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That's the arithmetic that prompted Moody's to cut its rating on U.S. debt, from its top rating of Aaa to Aa1.—
Alain Sherter,
CBS News,
19 May 2025
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So doing the work is the arithmetic, and AI is the algebra, intelligence leverages are the calculus.—
John Werner,
Forbes,
7 Mar. 2025
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This problem is acutely evident in large language models, where the massive scale of parameters and computations magnifies these inefficiencies.—
Lee-Lean Shu,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Quantum error correction schemes, however, require that some of the hardware qubits undergo weak measurements multiple times while the computation is in progress.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
20 June 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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