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
Austria has just launched one of the world’s 100 fastest supercomputers, which is equipped with 1,088 Nvidia chips and can carry out 45,110 trillion calculations per second.
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Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
The rare disruptions that insurance companies struggle to factor into their calculations aren’t so rare anymore, Oliver Bäte observes.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
These numbers may be too bullish, according to calculations conducted by investment research firm Morningstar exclusively for CNBC.
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Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
According to the operator, the pilot used a small clipboard to record load notes and fuel calculations, but that clipboard was not found in the wreckage, investigators said.
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Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Political calculations surrounding the 2028 presidential election inevitably shape these competing perspectives, but electoral considerations cannot replace strategic reality.
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Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The transaction would result in a company with reach to 80% of homes, but Biard says the math involved in the cap calculations is widely misunderstood – including by some of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
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Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
Once shipped, the products are included in gross domestic product (GDP) calculations.
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Doug Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
And the crazy thing that seems to have come out in the amplituhedron story, as done by the physicists, is that the thousands of calculations can be reduced sometimes to one calculation.
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Quanta Magazine,
25 June 2026
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
3 July 2026
The rare disruptions that insurance companies struggle to factor into their calculations aren’t so rare anymore, Oliver Bäte observes.
—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
3 July 2026
These numbers may be too bullish, according to calculations conducted by investment research firm Morningstar exclusively for CNBC.
—
Ryan Ermey,
CNBC,
3 July 2026
According to the operator, the pilot used a small clipboard to record load notes and fuel calculations, but that clipboard was not found in the wreckage, investigators said.
—
Judy L. Thomas,
Kansas City Star,
2 July 2026
Political calculations surrounding the 2028 presidential election inevitably shape these competing perspectives, but electoral considerations cannot replace strategic reality.
—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026
The transaction would result in a company with reach to 80% of homes, but Biard says the math involved in the cap calculations is widely misunderstood – including by some of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit.
—
Dade Hayes,
Deadline,
26 June 2026
Once shipped, the products are included in gross domestic product (GDP) calculations.
—
Doug Ashburn,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 June 2026
And the crazy thing that seems to have come out in the amplituhedron story, as done by the physicists, is that the thousands of calculations can be reduced sometimes to one calculation.
—
Quanta Magazine,
25 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for calculations
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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.
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Some of the studies are showing kids that maybe weren't as interested in maths now love maths.
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After a year and 40 pages of dense computations, the trio posted their paper in July 2025.
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Instead, consciousness is an outcome of information processing, and thus in principle it can be generated in any number of physical substrates so long as those substrates can support the requisite informational patterns, structures and computations.
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Based on those figures, Honsal said 731 dogs remain unaccounted for.
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Kids will create origami figures, write wishes on them and hang them on bamboo.
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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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