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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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By one calculation, a combined United-American would account for 40% of US domestic flying capacity.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 11 Sep. 2026
Leadership attention, team capacity and missed opportunity belong in that calculation too.

— Chris Suchánek, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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Also figuring prominently in the proceedings is the cleric’s acolyte Alyce (Thomasin McKenzie, Jojo Rabbit), a fictional character representing the many women who took part in the movement.

— Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
At a time when figuring it out fast is needed, the empty gas light has been on for several days.

— Dan Hayes, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026

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Even in the Ocala area, where living costs can be lower than other parts of Florida, the math is difficult.

— Jay Reddick, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2026
They could also be used to write an essay from scratch, solve a math problem and plan a whole science fair project with a single prompt.

— Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026

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The turbines are there because SpaceXAI needs an enormous amount of electricity for Colossus 2, one of the country’s densest concentrations of computing power, where the company is training Grok, its chatbot.

— Austyn Gaffney, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026
EuroHPC is overseeing the implementation of 19 AI Factories and 13 AI Factory Antennas across Europe, while also developing a European quantum-computing infrastructure that will integrate quantum technologies with conventional supercomputers.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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That level of detail also allowed the researchers to calculate a provable lower bound for the probability of completing the computation successfully.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Sep. 2026
Finally, the researchers tested their system using real blocks, each a few centimeters across, with circuitry inside that ran computations locally.

— Matthew Hutson, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2026

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