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
More recent developments have changed the Gulf states’ calculations.
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Hasan T. Alhasan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
When Anthropic silently added additional weekly usage limits to Claude Code, power users were left befuddled, claiming the company’s calculation of usage was inaccurate.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The savings projected under Biden were even larger after including purchase incentives in the calculations.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 31 July 2025
The calculation includes the acquisition price, maintenance costs from 2022 through 2026, administrative costs and consultant fees, but excludes legal costs and financing charges.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
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Hasan T. Alhasan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2025
When Anthropic silently added additional weekly usage limits to Claude Code, power users were left befuddled, claiming the company’s calculation of usage was inaccurate.
—Rashi Shrivastava, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
The savings projected under Biden were even larger after including purchase incentives in the calculations.
—Ignacio Calderon, USA Today, 31 July 2025
The calculation includes the acquisition price, maintenance costs from 2022 through 2026, administrative costs and consultant fees, but excludes legal costs and financing charges.
—Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculation
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The national erosion of math skills could cost hundreds of billions in future earnings.—
Marielys Divanne,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
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Both tea groups performed better on the math puzzles than the hot water group.2 Because hojicha tea contains relatively little caffeine, scientists theorized that this benefit may actually be due to compounds found in its aroma.2 2.—
Sarah Bence,
Verywell Health,
19 Aug. 2025
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Pruning involves eliminating redundant parameters that don’t significantly impact accuracy, and quantization converts the models to use lower-precision arithmetic to save on computation and memory usage.—
Dwith Chenna,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 July 2025
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In large numbers, transistors can represent nearly every number, refer to parts of the system’s memory, and do arithmetic.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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Those models require huge amounts of computation to make very narrow predictions.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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That means bridging the gap between verifiable computation and regulated capital.—
Sean Lee,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 26 Aug. 2025.
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