computative

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But by some chance of evolution—some sport—a vent-hole was opened at this one point between the different strata of his being, and a subliminal uprush carried his computative faculty into the open day.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

Adopting, the additional computative burden imposed by it notwithstanding, Schonfeld's modification of Airy's formul�, he introduced into his equations a fifth unknown quantity expressive of a possible stellar drift in galactic longitude.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 by Various