as in calculations
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 computations
Those costs, Adler said, include slowing down response times, increasing the number of computations and sometimes the model rejecting non-problematic requests.
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Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
However, increasing qubits also increases the errors that are incorporated during computations.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Somewhere within those broad frontal and temporal areas, everybody will have some tissue that is reliably doing linguistic computations.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
Reasoning involves running a series of computations that might take extra time in response to requests to produce better answers.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
Memristors are often used in chips that both perform computations and store data.
—Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2025
According to the team, these computations should make the system feasible for industrial-scale use.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Shortly after, miners realized that GPUs were more adept at handling the parallel computations demanded by Bitcoin's algorithm.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Louisiana's corrections department has used the same system to track people in its custody, process time computations, and calculate release dates since 1991, according to court filings.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026
However, increasing qubits also increases the errors that are incorporated during computations.
—Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 30 Dec. 2025
Somewhere within those broad frontal and temporal areas, everybody will have some tissue that is reliably doing linguistic computations.
—Quanta Magazine, 5 Dec. 2025
Reasoning involves running a series of computations that might take extra time in response to requests to produce better answers.
—Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025
Memristors are often used in chips that both perform computations and store data.
—Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Nov. 2025
According to the team, these computations should make the system feasible for industrial-scale use.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Shortly after, miners realized that GPUs were more adept at handling the parallel computations demanded by Bitcoin's algorithm.
—Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Louisiana's corrections department has used the same system to track people in its custody, process time computations, and calculate release dates since 1991, according to court filings.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 24 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computations
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However, calculations on the fallout from atmospheric detonations forced scientists to rethink this.—
Matthew S Williams,
Interesting Engineering,
10 Jan. 2026
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Tariffs have also changed businesses’ calculations on what is or isn’t profitable anymore.—
Elisabeth Buchwald,
CNN Money,
10 Jan. 2026
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Lowering global barriers for advanced maths The company says its Math-V2 model achieved gold-level scores on problems from both this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad and the 2024 Chinese Mathematical Olympiad.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Nov. 2025
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By posing real-life examples of conundrums faced by traders, Fibonacci brought maths to life.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
5 Nov. 2025
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“Computations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/computations. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.
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