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 The Herald included active and inactive voters in all calculations and graphics, since inactive voters are still eligible to cast ballots. — Verónica Egui Brito, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026 When climate forecasters built models, their calculations assumed CCS would work. — Katie Worth, ProPublica, 30 Oct. 2026 Such errors can corrupt calculations without necessarily activating standard monitoring systems. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Oct. 2026 Including benefits and their share of the postseason pool, players received about 49% of revenue, according to calculations by The Captain’s Blog. — Justin Birnbaum, Sportico.com, 29 Oct. 2026 Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and weather-dependent solar and wind are adding variables that make these calculations more complicated and demand harder to predict. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 Should the Chiefs prevail, their chances of winning the division increase to 85% in the New York Times calculations. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 29 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 calculations behind Venezuela's claim of more than 303 billion reserve barrels began over a decade ago. — ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
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  1. maths
  2. computations
  3. figures
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
Definition of maths
Noun
  • In large computations, many qubits must wait between operations, during which their quantum states can decay.
    — Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Crucially, the weights governing these computations are not individually designed by humans.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of computations
Noun
  • The cost figures draw on the Family Budget Calculator developed by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute from federal data on rents, food costs and consumer spending, with The Post’s own health care estimates.
    — Amy L. Wong, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Another star turn goes to Mary Ellen Pleasant, who was arguably America’s first Black millionaire and inarguably one of the most canny and chameleonlike figures this country has ever produced.
    — Kathryn Schulz, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of figures

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