calculus

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Working with stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson, director Kristoffer Borgli is less interested in matters of compatibility than the fickle calculus of cancellation.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2026

“It seems for Jews that there is a calculus of the lesser of evils,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

Mortgage rates ticked higher last week, continuing their march above 6% and potentially complicating the calculus for buyers and sellers at the beginning of a spring season that had been showing green shoots.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

For the owners, however, the calculus on all of this is quite different.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

In 1696, l’Hôpital’s Analyse des infiniment petits became the first textbook on calculus and introduced much of Europe to the Leibnizian version.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife