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calculus

[kal-kyuh-luhs] / ˈkæl kyə ləs /




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“If you reduce your application rates, you’re going to look at yield losses. So, it’s a really challenging calculus on that front.”

From Salon • May 15, 2026

That setup has changed the calculus for investors.

From Barron's • Apr. 27, 2026

“There is a lot of calculus to be sorted through,” Alvarez said, in an interview with CNBC.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

The expansion of U.S. interdictions thousands of miles beyond the blockade of Iran’s ports “has to change the risk calculus for the people who are involved,” said Powell.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

But between 1673 and 1676, when Leibniz next visited London, he, too, had developed calculus, although in a slightly different form.

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




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