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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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ciphering

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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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Since then, the consumer business has grown to around $51 billion in 2025, or 39% of total revenue, according to CNBC calculations.

— Matthew Tan,Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2026
That calculation is reason enough to grant commissioners a boost in pay, one outgoing commissioner said.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 8 Oct. 2026

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Payment history is the largest factor in calculating a FICO® Score, accounting for 35% of the score.

— Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 4 Oct. 2026
People with eating disorders may exhibit compulsive behaviors around both exercise and eating, including working out for multiple hours every day and carefully calculating every aspect of their diet.

— Melissa Rudy, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

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Multiplying two matrices together requires a tedious amount of arithmetic.

— Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2026
To the continued amazement of advantage players, casino operatives can argue with apparent conviction that card counting— essentially mental arithmetic—is a form of fraud.

— Kit Chellel, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2026

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This is also figuring that Warners unleashes Digger on Premium VOD soon and does a decent number relative to the box office because people are curious.

— Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 4 Oct. 2026
UConn has been figuring it out with 87 new players, many of whom hadn’t seen regular game reps at their prior stop.

— Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026

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The abundance of computing power created by the AI buildout is also behind Hayes' latest crypto venture, Flop, an AI-agent payments project expected to launch in the first quarter of 2027.

— Jenny Lee, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2026
If, say, a Chinese model developer can piggyback on all the money and computing power those companies have invested, the incentive to keep making new models starts to evaporate.

— Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of computing

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Our minds take in information from the world (input), manipulate it in some fashion (computation), and then enact behavior (output).

— Benjamin Riley, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026
Instead of performing computations entirely through conventional electronic circuits, Q/C’s approach uses the interference of light to carry out certain mathematical operations.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

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