calculation
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Their preliminary calculation highlights the potentially enormous scale of the process.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
The AI boom changes that calculation in several ways, as crystallized in Anthropic’s public offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
This year, the calculation has also been impacted by heavy haze, which has obscured satellite images at times.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
After a moment of intense calculation, he added, “Make that a double.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
By such lessons did I become acclimated to scientific calculation in even the meanest function, so learning the secrets of tare and gross.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
If continuously running at full capacity, our calculations show they would require 1.3 gigawatts of power and could produce an estimated 4.1 million tonnes of carbon emissions a year.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Home Office calculations suggested 196,000 care workers and their adult dependants could settle between 2026 and 2030, at an estimated lifetime cost of £9.5bn to taxpayers.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
This combination of experimental measurements and theoretical calculations was essential to understanding the mechanism.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
If their calculations were still off, the company could miss its window for a fall launch in grocery stores.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026
As for lunars—no one else pretended to work those calculations.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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