computation
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The Energy Department will invest more than $500 million over five years in lab measurement, modeling and computation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
According to the researchers, those results illustrate how optical computation could provide a more secure and dependable foundation for some artificial intelligence systems.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
The quantum computation was completed in about 15 minutes, while leading classical computing methods would require an impractical amount of time to perform the same task.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
At the same time, the added structure allows errors to be detected during the quantum computation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
When Dorothy and the other West Computers signed up for computation classes in the 1950s, they registered to attend at Hampton Institute.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Their computations, which are in effect the switching on and off of microscopic silicon transistors that make up a chip, are actually silent.
From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026
Even so, some have already outgrown those computations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
South Korea’s market is led by twin chip giants, Samsung and SK Hynix, which dominate the production of two leading types of memory chips for AI computations and data storage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
This is a model that abstracts away from anatomical detail to focus on the core computations done by simple brains.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2026
The upshot is that your computations are necessarily based on a series of nested assumptions, any of which could be a source of contention.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing computation
"A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift
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Henry David Thoreau "Civil Disobedience" (1849)
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