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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Achieving a true quantum advantage in chemistry will likely require breakthroughs in both hardware and algorithms before quantum computers can surpass classical machines on these fundamental molecular calculations.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026 -
That ticking clock is where the Republican silence on tariffs transforms from a tactical calculation into a potential strategic catastrophe.—
Jay Caruso,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Worry not; for better or worse, this game of chance requires minimal calculating on your part.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
9 Mar. 2026
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The man Cameron thought was a patriot, now seemed like a calculating conman.—
Erin Moriarty,
CBS News,
8 Mar. 2026
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But our board, our investors, our unions, our NGO partners, and policymakers saw beyond the arithmetic.—
Paul Polman,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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So drivers are now doing constant frantic mental arithmetic about when to deploy extra energy to go faster and when to recharge — at 200 mph, in traffic.—
Alex Kirshner,
New York Times,
8 Mar. 2026
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The truth is, Ricciardo is still figuring everything out.—
Madeline Coleman,
New York Times,
10 Mar. 2026
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To be sure, Republicans wanted to face Crockett in the general, figuring their chances in Texas were better against a progressive Black woman rather than a Presbyterian white man.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Clifton, New Jersey — At Clifton High School in Clifton, New Jersey, senior Gianna Colon is a three-sport athlete, sophomore Sebastian Fazio loves math and baseball, and sophomore Hamza Ramach is in band and is a goalie on the school hockey team.—
Meg Oliver,
CBS News,
12 Mar. 2026
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Drones cost a fraction of the weapons needed to shoot them down, a math problem that has vexed military planners for years.—
Chris Boccia,
ABC News,
12 Mar. 2026
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That includes a new central computing rack made up of central processing units (CPUs) rather than the graphics processing units (GPUs) Nvidia has been known for.—
Hadas Gold,
CNN Money,
16 Mar. 2026
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Shortly afterwards, Conyngham, an AI expert and electrical and computing engineer who co-founded Core Intelligence Technologies and served as a director for the Data Science and AI Association of Australia, immediately set to work once UNSW completed the $3,000 genomic sequencing for Rosie.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Mar. 2026
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While diplomats talk about what to do with the key oil chokepoint of the Strait of Hormuz closed, the actual battle for low-cost and robust energy will be won through the integration of physics, subsurface engineering, and advanced computation.—
Siddharth Misra,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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However, previous photonic systems could only process linear computations using light.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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“Ciphering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ciphering. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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