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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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Successful candidates will then be invited to spend a day at the bank’s offices where they are tested on banking regulation, their use of AI, and their ability to build calculations.

— Sam Birchall, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
Given the same borrower information, loan program, property details, and applicable rules, the calculation and decision should generally remain consistent.

— Ethan Stone, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026

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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
Policymakers and advocates have proposed alternatives to the CPI-W for calculating the annual COLA.

— Lorie Konish, CNBC, 14 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

Definition of figuring

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English and math scores in the Sacramento area’s largest school districts, as in California overall, have yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, according to results released this week.

— Chaewon Chung October 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Throw in a third massive object, though, and the math gets ridiculously more complicated and difficult to solve.

— Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2026

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An additional software test will examine whether computing applications can be deployed and managed reliably on the Moon.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
For the better part of the first quarter of this century, the rise of Big Tech has made computer science (CS), and computing education more broadly, among the most popular subjects in American higher education.

— Kamau Bobb October 21, Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

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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
At the time, the team utilized a different error-correction method called Helix to demonstrate record-setting logical memory and computation.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

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