calculations

plural of calculation
as in maths
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 calculations Their calculations showed that the molecule conducts electricity very differently depending on its rotational angle. — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026 Successful candidates will then be invited to spend a day at the bank’s offices where they are tested on banking regulation, their use of AI, and their ability to build calculations. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026 The count is the first of two crucial, bottom line-affecting enrollment calculations during the school year; the second takes place in February. — Austin Horn, Miami Herald, 23 Oct. 2026 The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has spent around $366 million across 40 races so far in the midterms, based on CNBC’s calculations, making Musk the largest individual donor of the cycle. — Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026 The conversational layer may be what a borrower sees, but the difficult work happens deeper in the stack, where documents, rules, calculations, decisions, and transaction states have to remain connected. — Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 The calculations behind Venezuela's claim of more than 303 billion reserve barrels began over a decade ago. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026 Advertisement The convergence of these calculations makes the coming weeks particularly perilous. — Ali Vaez, Time, 21 Oct. 2026 The group’s calculations exclude automobile dealers, gasoline stations and restaurants. — Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
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Noun
  • Less than a month after astonishing the world with its solution to the long-standing Navier-Stokes problem, OpenAI has released 722 maths papers, proving or disproving problems across numerous fields from algebraic geometry to number theory.
    — Will Barker, TheWeek, 9 Oct. 2026
  • As a school-leaving-age young woman in 2012, simple maths dictates that she must have been conceived around the time of a conflict that was also defined by the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • The findings follow years of progress in reducing the resources needed for useful quantum computations.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
  • Crucially, the weights governing these computations are not individually designed by humans.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • These figures therefore should not be treated as interchangeable measures of payload capacity.
    — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
  • More than 1,500 businesses were affected nationwide, according to the FCD figures.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 19 Oct. 2026

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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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