as in math
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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According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China has achieved 1,882 exaflops – short for exa floating-point operations per second – which translates to 1,882 quintillion, or billion billion, calculations per second, reported SCMP.
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
At the center of that calculation is the Disaster Relief Fund, FEMA's primary account for responding to catastrophes.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
By her calculation, this could lose someone as much as 10,000 dec-aura points.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
Boothby said his calculations show roughly 6,000 square feet, based on two sections totaling about 4,400 and 1,600 square feet.
—Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 Apr. 2026
At the center of that calculation is the Disaster Relief Fund, FEMA's primary account for responding to catastrophes.
—Nicole Sganga, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
By her calculation, this could lose someone as much as 10,000 dec-aura points.
—Katherine McLaughlin, Architectural Digest, 22 Apr. 2026
Boothby said his calculations show roughly 6,000 square feet, based on two sections totaling about 4,400 and 1,600 square feet.
—Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Apr. 2026
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Zevik Glidai, a 78-year-old math teacher and volunteer ambulance driver, discovered coils of the translucent fiber-optic cables surrounding a drone that crashed into his backyard in the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on April 13.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
30 Apr. 2026
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Burton brought in a stethoscope, a scale, and a thermometer so that children could use the numbers for a math activity and demystify doctors’ visits.—
Tribune News Service,
Baltimore Sun,
30 Apr. 2026
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The arithmetic does not come close to closing a gap of this magnitude even under the most optimistic assumptions.—
Veronique De Rugy,
Oc Register,
13 Apr. 2026
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That figure is the cold arithmetic of economic gravity.—
Bobby Ghosh,
Time,
8 Apr. 2026
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Neuroscientists have found that these events at dendrites can allow even single neurons to perform complex computations — meaning that dendrites are the reason why a single neuron can have the same amount of computational power as a deep artificial neural network.—
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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The Thus processor is the world’s first neural-net compute-in-memory AI audio chip, which is smaller than traditional chips, and requires less power to run complex computations.—
John Higgins,
The Verge,
22 Apr. 2026
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“Calculation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/calculation. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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