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noun

as in calculation

the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value he wasn't very good at ciphering, but he had excellent language skills

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verb

present participle of cipher

as in calculating

to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations were surprised by how much we had spent on the cruise after we had ciphered out the grand total

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Noun

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

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Verb

Created by Elizabeth Meriwether, the thriller follows an FBI agent hunting a calculating female serial killer.

— Pete Hammond, Deadline, 20 Oct. 2026
Traditional CPUs excel at sequential computing tasks, such as calculating a massive spreadsheet or running a precise physics simulation, as these often require executing steps in strict order at blazing speeds.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2026

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The Arab parties On paper, the opposition holds roughly 67 seats, but that arithmetic is fractured by ideological, national and personal rivalries.

— Tal Shalev, CNN Money, 28 Oct. 2026
There is no indication that the parliamentary arithmetic in the City Council has shifted in favor of a head tax this year.

— Chris Tye, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026

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There’s a lot left to get back on the right track — especially with the New York Giants figuring things out at the top of the division — but Monday’s result could serve as the launching pad for a run in the next few weeks.

— Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Oct. 2026
Ernest couldn’t sleep, but lay awake on his mattress in the basement, figuring.

— Madeline ffitch, Harpers Magazine, 27 Oct. 2026

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Brain games, crosswords and math puzzles are often promoted as ways to sharpen memory, but neurologists warn that generic exercises may not address the specific cause of mental fog.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
Among the region’s six largest districts, only Folsom Cordova Unified cleared the halfway mark in English, and none did in math.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 24 Oct. 2026

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Now, despite the economic benefits — considerable tax revenue, money for schools, numerous construction jobs and a smaller number of permanent jobs — no one seems to want a computing campus in their backyard, especially one shrouded in secrecy.

— Andrea Hsu, NPR, 28 Oct. 2026
Most of this capital is targeted toward generative AI, cloud computing infrastructure and logistics automation.

— Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

Definition of computing

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In large computations, many qubits must wait between operations, during which their quantum states can decay.

— Tejasri Gururaj, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
Now, the company is using a scheme that uses laser light to selectively manipulate those qubits that have leaked into other energy states and bring them back to one of the two used for computation.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 20 Oct. 2026

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