calculus
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While the prediction proved prescient, Musk’s investment has changed the calculus.
From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026
What’s the company’s calculus on going public relatively early?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
AT&T was the last of the major telecommunications stocks that Bernstein analyst Laurent Yoon recommended to his clients, but now SpaceX has changed that calculus.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
They unpack David Ellison’s calculus, the potential ripple effects, and more.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
Scientists took that leap, for calculus is the language of nature.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019
Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 1, 2019
Concrēte′ness; Concrē′tion, a mass concreted: a growth forming in certain parts of the body, as calculi, &c.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
How much the mechanical element may mean in kidney and biliary conditions is well illustrated by the relief often afforded by changes of position when calculi in these organs are giving trouble.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Surely we should reap some flourishing revenue from fashion and credulity, when we find our government awarding £5000 to a certain Johanna Stephens for her discovery of certain medicines for the cure of calculi!
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
“Do I think I underestimated some factors and overestimated some others? Sure. Do I think that there were calculations and calculuses that I made? Yes,” Porter went on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
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