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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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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However, that is easier said than done, as in order to make the TCJA permanent, doing so, in its most general terms, would require creating additional revenue for the Treasury Department to make up for the purported lost revenue that TCJA caused under certain calculations.Darren T. Case, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Depending on the election’s outcome, Biden and Harris might make different calculations on how to proceed with lame-duck actions.Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Then again, games are still scored with numbers, so arithmetic does matter in these contests.Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2024
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For him, the moral arithmetic is simple and Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian population is fundamentally wrong.Sean Illing, Vox, 15 Oct. 2024
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This all might be a campaign lark, particularly given Musk's fuzziness on the math, but at some point the multi-company CEO will be stretched too thin.Dan Primack, Axios, 30 Oct. 2024
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The heavily Democratic city of Philadelphia forms a key part of the state’s electoral math.Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
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But while the cost of computation has been rapidly and steadily decreasing for decades, these breakthroughs happened only over the last decade.Gil Press, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
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The new largest prime number was discovered by Luke Durant of San Jose, California, who is an amateur researcher and former NVIDIA employee, on October 11, 2024 and confirmed by independent computation on October 12.David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2024
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 10 Nov. 2024.
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