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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Noun
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These calculations are computationally intensive and only recently became feasible.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
21 Feb. 2026 -
Florida Blue gave me some crazy calculation about meeting out-of-pocket deductibles.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Cantarelli shared a handout given to the customer care center attendees that explains what goes into calculating delivery charges.—
Doug Ross,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2026
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Then there’s Rick Devens, whose reputation coming off of his fourth-place finish in season 38’s Edge of Extinction is less of a coldly calculating snake than a perpetual-motion machine whose strategizing and idol-hunting has the 50 returnees already exhausted at the thought of playing with him.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
25 Feb. 2026
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What sounds like bad arithmetic is correct politics.—
Josef Joffe,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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No self-pity in those four words, no performance of stoicism either—just the clean arithmetic of a life lived at full speed.—
Outside,
Outside,
10 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Some startups, figuring that people might prefer a tangible barrier, offer hardware solutions that introduce physical friction between you and an app.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
21 Feb. 2026
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Stolz kept figuring someone else would try to reel in the leaders.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
21 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Imagine Math is the only math vendor singled out for a $1 million appropriation in the Education Department’s budget that year.—
Nuria Martinez-Keel,
Oklahoma Voice,
19 Feb. 2026
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Alpha School then uses AI to evaluate students’ scores to determine their knowledge gaps on math, science, reading and language, which are considered core skills.—
Erick Trevino,
AZCentral.com,
18 Feb. 2026
Verb
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And that computing power runs on energy.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Part of the pressure followed Anthropic’s midday announcement that its Claude Code tool can be used to update a legacy computing language prized at IBM.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
24 Feb. 2026
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The consequences of such an error, in the context of a computation where there is no cross-checking in place, can range from unnoticeable to catastrophic.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Feb. 2026
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But AIs will just happily blast through those tedious computations.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
24 Feb. 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 26 Feb. 2026.
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