as in calculated
to determine (a value) by doing the necessary mathematical operations
for the test we were required to compute the answers without using a calculator
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Recent Examples of computed
How many people on Earth actually understand how wins above replacement are computed?
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Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Today, pi has been computed to over 200 trillion digits, using algorithms whose foundations trace back to Ramanujan’s ideas.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The simulation hypothesis does not have to mean that people in the simulation are only soulless, computed AI inside someone else’s creation.
—Rizwan Virk, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
The alternative proposition is emergence, which states that qualitatively novel properties are found in more complex systems that can never, even in principle, be derived or computed from fundamental laws, principles, and entities.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
To check that, Lai and his colleagues computed the most optimal task allocations, schedules, and motions in a few simplified work cells and compared those with results delivered by RoboBallet.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Administrators then questioned them, computed risk scores and decided who to detain.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
An average percentage of Democratic and Republican votes could be computed.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Speed is computed and displayed by sampling the spacecraft’s altitude about 10 times per second and dividing the change in altitude by the time interval between measurements.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
Jayson Stark, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
Today, pi has been computed to over 200 trillion digits, using algorithms whose foundations trace back to Ramanujan’s ideas.
—Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 6 Dec. 2025
The simulation hypothesis does not have to mean that people in the simulation are only soulless, computed AI inside someone else’s creation.
—Rizwan Virk, The Conversation, 13 Nov. 2025
The alternative proposition is emergence, which states that qualitatively novel properties are found in more complex systems that can never, even in principle, be derived or computed from fundamental laws, principles, and entities.
—Big Think, 16 Oct. 2025
To check that, Lai and his colleagues computed the most optimal task allocations, schedules, and motions in a few simplified work cells and compared those with results delivered by RoboBallet.
—Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
Administrators then questioned them, computed risk scores and decided who to detain.
—Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2025
An average percentage of Democratic and Republican votes could be computed.
—Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2025
Speed is computed and displayed by sampling the spacecraft’s altitude about 10 times per second and dividing the change in altitude by the time interval between measurements.
—Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 28 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for computed
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Due to certain inflation adjustments in how Social Security is calculated and how past earnings are adjusted for inflation, the maximum benefit rose to $5,251 per month, totaling over $63,000 annually in 2026.—
Alexis Simmerman,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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Apple Music introduced fraud penalties back in 2022, where along with demonetizing the illegitimate streams themselves, the company employed a sliding scale of fining fraudsters a fee calculated on what would’ve been royalties.—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Jan. 2026
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Santa Margarita coach Justin Bell figured the Eagles still had a good chance.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
29 Jan. 2026
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Once Tomon figured this out, the rest of the proof came together relatively easily.—
Leila Sloman,
Quanta Magazine,
28 Jan. 2026
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