calculations

noun

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 According to Zandi’s calculations, the price of gas is costing the average household $360 more. — Christine Romans, NBC news, 25 July 2026 Understand the costs If you’re approved, know that many cards charge a balance transfer fee, so just make sure to include that in your overall calculations. — Ryley Amond, CNBC, 24 July 2026 Such calculations are core to a company that talks of bringing a Silicon Valley ethos to a distinctly low-tech industry. — Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 24 July 2026 Markets without a closing bell lack the anchor that net asset value calculations, margin requirements and index rebalancing have relied on for as long as those processes have existed. — Mike Cahill, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 OpenAI needs to spin up roughly $100 billion in free cash flow by 2030, according to calculations by Harrison Rolfes of PitchBook. — Annie Lowrey, The Atlantic, 21 July 2026 The Athletic’s calculations cover that primary $250million tranche of payments and find, just as in 2018 and 2022, Manchester City come out on top. — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 21 July 2026 As emergency fuel surcharges begin flowing into regular quarterly BAF calculations, shippers may effectively pay twice for the same fuel price increase, Komodromos said. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 17 July 2026 In fact, since the start of 2025, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and Oracle alone have issued more than $300 billion in bonds, according to Bloomberg calculations. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
  1. maths
  2. computations
  3. figures
Noun
  • 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
  • Some of the studies are showing kids that maybe weren't as interested in maths now love maths.
    — Dan Fitzpatrick, Forbes.com, 19 May 2026
Definition of maths
Noun
  • The deterministic layer checks computations rather than asking a language model to predict them.
    — Ray Ravaglia, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • The team also believes programmable metasurfaces could eventually support optical computing, where light performs computations instead of conventional electronic circuits.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Definition of computations
Noun
  • Leipzig had locker room issues a few years ago, when a few players were regarded as not pulling their weight — and Schlager was one of the senior figures who challenged them and urged them to improve their mentality.
    — Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 21 July 2026
  • Those figures are comparable only in some respects because private transaction values can include debt while public market capitalizations do not.
    — Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Definition of figures

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