calculations

plural of calculation
as in maths
the act or process of performing mathematical operations to find a value by my calculation, it should take me a month to save up for the weekend getaway

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Recent Examples of calculations And the cosmic radiation that Earth’s atmosphere filters out can scramble calculations, forcing systems to catch and correct errors on the fly. — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026 Per the center’s calculations, a family of four buying a home in Madera County would have to earn no more than $166,800 a year, while a family in Santa Clara County could earn up to $375,800 a year and still qualify. — Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026 Our quantum calculations told us that a hydrogen atom was tunneling, which increased the reaction’s efficiency. — Sophya Garashchuk, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026 Wage risk calculations now incorporate information from more than 70,000 site-level SMETA audits alongside external sources. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026 Atmospheric transmission, sky background, and detector noise also factored into the calculations. — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026 Tensor Cores are specialized parts of NVIDIA GPUs designed to speed up AI calculations. — Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026 Letter grades and grade point average calculations would then begin with the second semester. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026 That information had previously been left out of the state’s calculations for land values. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 24 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • From the age of 14, pupils will be able to combine technical subjects like manufacturing and AI with core subjects like maths and English.
    — Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 29 July 2026
  • As a school-leaving-age young woman in 2012, simple maths dictates that she must have been conceived around the time of a conflict that was also defined by the use of mass rape as a weapon of war.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026
Noun
  • Instead of performing computations entirely through conventional electronic circuits, Q/C’s approach uses the interference of light to carry out certain mathematical operations.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Crucially, the weights governing these computations are not individually designed by humans.
    — Ambuj Tewari, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • The Justice Department also says Beijing is determined to sway American public opinion in its favor by cultivating relationships with political figures seen as having access to the levers of power.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Forty-five percent of adults 30 to 44 say the same; both figures have declined in the years since the COVID-19 pandemic.
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 5 Oct. 2026

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“Calculations.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculations. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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