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 The Herald/Times’ independent calculations found that over the past year, the state has spent more than $630 million and still owes $760 million on contracts alone. Liv Caputo, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026 Victory is thus determined largely by calculations made before battle begins. Ethan Teekah, Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026 Social Security recipients may get the largest pay raise in three years in 2027, according to new calculations that include the latest August inflation data. Medora Lee, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026 Based on data and my calculations, less than 4 cents of every dollar spent on climate globally goes toward adapting to conditions already locked in, with the rest directed at reducing future emissions. Tenzin Seldon, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026 The letter does not detail the statistical model used to make the calculations. Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026 However, the new calculations show that this scenario runs into multiple fundamental roadblocks. Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026 But such calculations were only in the background on the summer day where the university lecturer recounted her health struggles over the past five years. Caleb Hellerman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026 By the company's calculations, that makes Kraaken about 44% to 78% of the cost, while taking around three years to deploy rather than six to 10. New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • From the age of 14, pupils will be able to combine technical subjects like manufacturing and AI with core subjects like maths and English.
    Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 29 July 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
  • Its properties can keep quantum states stable, and allow logical qubits (groups of physical qubits that run quantum computations using specifications of a quantum algorithm) to be formed with fewer physical qubits than competing methods.
    Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Finally, the researchers tested their system using real blocks, each a few centimeters across, with circuitry inside that ran computations locally.
    Matthew Hutson, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2026
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  • Webb figures he's got the best of both worlds, having his play-calling mentor by his side and squaring off against defensive coordinator Vance Joseph and Denver's stout defense all summer.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The precise figures go unpublished, all wrapped up in one big commercial total in the accounts, but there is unlikely to be a bigger deal of its kind in the Premier League.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026

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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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