as in arithmetic
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value
I did the math, and we can't afford to keep spending like this
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Recent Examples of math
The Heat do not have the ability to even extend an offer sheet due to their cap position and the sign-and-trade math would not seem to work.
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 24 July 2025
The school’s English and math test scores are below-standard but dramatically improving, the state’s school dashboard shows.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
By middle school, the chatbot—now a boy-band singer—might help with math homework and give advice on how to talk to a crush.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
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Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2025
Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy.
—Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 24 July 2025
The school’s English and math test scores are below-standard but dramatically improving, the state’s school dashboard shows.
—Jemma Stephenson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2025
By middle school, the chatbot—now a boy-band singer—might help with math homework and give advice on how to talk to a crush.
—Lila Shroff, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for math
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Beginning in 1970, Edwards and a close friend began teaching a class, one afternoon a week, at Argonne National Laboratory, instructing members of the lab’s custodial staff on reading, writing and basic arithmetic.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
24 July 2025
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Researchers have also made progress identifying the procedures that language models use to perform tasks such as retrieving relevant words from earlier in a sentence, identifying the grammatical function (opens a new tab) of certain words or doing simple arithmetic (opens a new tab).—
Ben Brubaker,
Quanta Magazine,
30 Apr. 2025
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When Anthropic silently added additional weekly usage limits to Claude Code, power users were left befuddled, claiming the company’s calculation of usage was inaccurate.—
Rashi Shrivastava,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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The savings projected under Biden were even larger after including purchase incentives in the calculations.—
Ignacio Calderon,
USA Today,
31 July 2025
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“Math.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/math. Accessed 8 Aug. 2025.
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