calculation
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The AI boom changes that calculation in several ways, as crystallized in Anthropic’s public offer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
Their preliminary calculation highlights the potentially enormous scale of the process.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
"Mathematics goes far beyond calculation: it's a way of thinking clearly," Mallat said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
After a moment of intense calculation, he added, “Make that a double.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
To be even more generous and also to simplify the rough calculation, assume it’s a cube 40 billion light-years on a side.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
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
“There are now so many phase-outs and phase-ins and interlocking provisions that back-of-the-envelope calculations aren’t reliable,” says Tim Steffen, director of tax planning at Baird.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
Their calculations suggest that cosmic acceleration could emerge naturally from Einstein's equations, potentially eliminating the need to invoke mysterious dark energy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 29, 2026
An abacus is a physical tool for carrying out complicated calculations; it enables you to add and subtract, multiply and divide.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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