Thesaurus results for COMPUTATIONS

computations

noun

plural of computation

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 Whereas most computers use CPUs (central processing units) to perform the majority of their computations, the specialized GPUs (graphical processing units) and TPUs (tensor processing units) used in AI data centers use several times as much energy per computer as a standard CPU would. —

Big Think, 24 Feb. 2026 But AIs will just happily blast through those tedious computations. —

Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 24 Feb. 2026 Bad software architecture forces unnecessary data transfers, redundant computations, and excessive resource use. —

Arjun Sharma, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Feb. 2026 The likelihood of the quadruple happening is rated by Betfair’s computations at 5%. —

Peter South, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026 In explaining the rationale for the deal, Musk said in the statement that the least expensive way to do AI computations within two to three years will be in space. —

Bloomberg Wire, Dallas Morning News, 2 Feb. 2026 Quantum computations can be described as extremely large tensors—mathematical structures far too big for direct classical simulation. —

Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 Jan. 2026 Those costs, Adler said, include slowing down response times, increasing the number of computations and sometimes the model rejecting non-problematic requests. —

Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 8 Jan. 2026 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

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These calculations are computationally intensive and only recently became feasible.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 21 Feb. 2026
But since the federal government owns large swaths of Nevada’s acres, its restrictions would leave less than 15% of the state open for renewable development, according to USA TODAY’s calculations.

— Suhail Bhat, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026