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
Xiaomi's deliveries for the first half of the year exceeded 150,000 cars, according to CNBC calculations of publicly available figures.
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 July 2025
Her calculations show from January through March in 2025 compared to the same months in 2024, 19% more people are coming through the pantry.
—Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
This changed the formula calculation, essentially reducing an affected worker's Social Security benefit (though the benefit could not be entirely eliminated).
—Amy Wagner, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The Trump administration and certain Senate Republicans are opting not to include the cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts in their calculations of the bill’s impact on the federal deficit.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
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Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 2 July 2025
Her calculations show from January through March in 2025 compared to the same months in 2024, 19% more people are coming through the pantry.
—Kelly Wilkinson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
This changed the formula calculation, essentially reducing an affected worker's Social Security benefit (though the benefit could not be entirely eliminated).
—Amy Wagner, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
The Trump administration and certain Senate Republicans are opting not to include the cost of extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts in their calculations of the bill’s impact on the federal deficit.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 1 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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That’s the math that should drive every marketing decision.—
Michael Fox,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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Here’s why: By the simplest math Miami gives up two starters and gets one, a lopsidedness that the Fins’ slight edge in the picks swap does not make up for.—
Greg Cote,
Miami Herald,
1 July 2025
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By placing teachers at the center of innovation, the AFT and its partners aim to ensure that the next generation of students learns not just reading, writing, and arithmetic, but also how to use artificial intelligence wisely and with purpose.—
Dan Fitzpatrick,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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The curriculum included arithmetic, reading, writing, history and geography, along with civics, politics, home economics and vocational training.—
Michael Barnes,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
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Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic.—
Max Springer,
Scientific American,
27 June 2025
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What remains immutable is the physics of computation itself: the energy required to power these systems.—
Aya Saed,
Time,
17 June 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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