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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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Noun

But fewer will be able to afford the choice, especially when housing, family obligations and student debt are part of the calculation.

— Francisco Ruiz, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
The former is akin to the player profits the Premier League and UEFA allow clubs to include in their SCR calculations, but the EFL’s version comes replete with crucial differences.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026

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Due to its variable rate, calculating long-term interest-earning projections with a high-yield savings account is difficult to do with precision.

— Matt Richardson, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2026
Include all of your debt payments, such as student loans, auto loans, credit card payments and personal loans, when calculating affordability.

— Deane Biermeier, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of calculating

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NurPhoto via Getty Images Anthropic has quietly joined the frontier labs designing their own chips, a shift driven less by escaping Nvidia than by the arithmetic of serving billions of tokens a day.

— Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
That arithmetic has become increasingly difficult for Japan to fight.

— Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 July 2026

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McGurn said Truth Social is in conversations to sign up cloud computing companies, large news organizations, and developers of large language models.

— Jon Brodkin, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
Shares of cloud computing company CoreWeave surged more than 18% and Super Micro Computer’s stock jumped nearly 9% before the market opened on strong quarterly results.

— Elaine Kurtenbach, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026

Definition of computing

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It's born from combining advances across science, engineering and computation in ways that make previously impractical technologies commercially viable.

— Cyrus Wadia, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
The Maxwell Ratings playoff projections are based on a Monte Carlo simulation, a computation of random sampling used to predict outcomes, of the 2026 season.

— Loren Maxwell, AJC.com, 11 Aug. 2026

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