as in calculation
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
we were able to divide the dinner bill fairly with a little computation
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Recent Examples of computation
South Korea’s largest conglomerate has run into significant headwinds in recent years across both of its key revenue streams: the manufacturing of memory chips, which help devices store data, and logic chips, which power data processing and computation.
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John Liu, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
That single value app is presented with a user interface, an appropriate level of backend infrastructure provisioning (to handle computations, input/output of data, external API connects and so on) and a database service.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Willow performed a standardized benchmark computation, known as the RCS, in under five minutes — something that would have taken today's fastest supercomputers about 10 septillion years to perform.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
These components of the Spatial Web will all simply, like other protocols and standards before it, just do the hard communication and computation work behind the scenes.
—Gabriel René, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
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John Liu, CNN Money, 31 July 2025
That single value app is presented with a user interface, an appropriate level of backend infrastructure provisioning (to handle computations, input/output of data, external API connects and so on) and a database service.
—Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
Willow performed a standardized benchmark computation, known as the RCS, in under five minutes — something that would have taken today's fastest supercomputers about 10 septillion years to perform.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
These components of the Spatial Web will all simply, like other protocols and standards before it, just do the hard communication and computation work behind the scenes.
—Gabriel René, IEEE Spectrum, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for computation
Noun
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That calculation, however, rested on a faulty premise.—
Dan Alexander,
Forbes.com,
23 Aug. 2025
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For a while, Israeli and Palestinian leaders invested in diplomacy, gambled on its effectiveness, and trusted in its primacy over force, out of political calculation, tactical considerations, or both.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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The national erosion of math skills could cost hundreds of billions in future earnings.—
Marielys Divanne,
New York Daily News,
19 Aug. 2025
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Both tea groups performed better on the math puzzles than the hot water group.2 Because hojicha tea contains relatively little caffeine, scientists theorized that this benefit may actually be due to compounds found in its aroma.2 2.—
Sarah Bence,
Verywell Health,
19 Aug. 2025
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Pruning involves eliminating redundant parameters that don’t significantly impact accuracy, and quantization converts the models to use lower-precision arithmetic to save on computation and memory usage.—
Dwith Chenna,
IEEE Spectrum,
20 July 2025
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In large numbers, transistors can represent nearly every number, refer to parts of the system’s memory, and do arithmetic.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
27 June 2025
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“Computation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computation. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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