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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Global dust storms on Mars occur roughly every five and a half Earth years, so SpaceX will have to factor Mars' weather into its calculations.
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Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024
The calculation uses a share count estimate for December 2024 that is an extrapolation of the recent trend in shares outstanding.
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That's because the data centers tasked with running the complex calculations needed to power artificial intelligence applications require enormous amounts of power.
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Kate Irwin, PCMAG, 23 Sep. 2024
The calculation uses a share count estimate for December 2024 that is an extrapolation of the recent trend in shares outstanding.
—William Baldwin, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2024
That's because the data centers tasked with running the complex calculations needed to power artificial intelligence applications require enormous amounts of power.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
Enlarge / Math for English Majors talks about numbers as nouns, verbs as calculations, and algebra as grammar.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 4 Oct. 2024.
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