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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

Based on current calculations, Swift is now expected to begin its atmospheric re-entry no earlier than October.

— Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 20 Aug. 2026
By Hanke’s calculation, prices measured in Venezuela’s coin of the realm, the bolivar, are now rising at a 400% annual clip.

— Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2026

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This means taxpayers won’t be responsible for determining eligibility or calculating their own deduction as many were for their 2025 return.

— Sarah Agostino, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2026
Leaders in that town were also outraged and are calculating the cost of clean up with the intention of billing the firm, officials have said.

— Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 15 Aug. 2026

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There were those who said they should be banned in schools, and if the purpose of a lesson was to teach basic arithmetic, that made sense.

— Larry Magid, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026
Run the arithmetic on the last three months and net job creation in the American economy is approximately zero.

— Jason Kirsch, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026

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The centers, used as high-program computing hubs as the use of artificial intelligence increases, are popping up across the nation and causing a stir.

— Kairi Lowery, Miami Herald, 19 Aug. 2026
The work points toward a different kind of computing architecture.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of computing

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Instead of bringing biology into electronic systems, researchers are starting to put computation directly into living systems.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
The findings reveal how much computation might be happening within a single neuron of a living being.

— Ajdina Halilovic, Scientific American, 13 Aug. 2026

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