mathematical
adjective
math·e·mat·i·cal
ˌmath-ˈma-ti-kəl 
ˌma-thə-
variants
or less commonly mathematic
ˌmath-ˈma-tik
ˌma-thə-
1
: of, relating to, or according with mathematics
3
: possible but highly improbable
only a mathematical chance
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They recorded the changes with mathematical precision.
The team has only a mathematical chance of making the play-offs.
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The team is also developing mathematical and computer models of the process and plans to initiate a long-term data collection project in the near future.
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
At Google DeepMind, Fawzi had led the team that in 2022 developed its AlphaTensor AI, which discovered new ways to do matrix multiplication, a fundamental mathematical process for training and running neural networks and many other computer applications.
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By picking up on how humans write and reflect their anger, the AI uses mathematical and computational pattern matching to then mimic the emotion of anger.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The way training works—still speaking roughly—is that all those numbers filling the memory slots are combined using all those mathematical operations to produce probabilities about what word the AI will see next.
—Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
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Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
At Google DeepMind, Fawzi had led the team that in 2022 developed its AlphaTensor AI, which discovered new ways to do matrix multiplication, a fundamental mathematical process for training and running neural networks and many other computer applications.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
By picking up on how humans write and reflect their anger, the AI uses mathematical and computational pattern matching to then mimic the emotion of anger.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
The way training works—still speaking roughly—is that all those numbers filling the memory slots are combined using all those mathematical operations to produce probabilities about what word the AI will see next.
—Nate Soares, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Mathematical.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mathematical. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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mathematical
adjective
math·e·mat·i·cal
ˌmath-ə-ˈmat-i-kəl
math-ˈmat-
1
: of, relating to, or according with mathematics
2
: very exact
mathematical precision
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