variants
also calculuses
as in calculations
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
by my calculus the more efficient air conditioner will have paid for itself within a span of five years
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The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Russell and his colleagues did some calculations and found that solar flares could actually be over 100 million degrees Fahrenheit, and quite possibly hotter.—
Nell Greenfieldboyce,
NPR,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Calculi.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculi. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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