calculation
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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
For the location in Wilmette, the calculation was different.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
After a moment of intense calculation, he added, “Make that a double.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He invented the spiral balance spring still used in some watches today; made fundamental contributions to mechanics—e.g., the calculation of centrifugal force—and, from a study of the game of dice, to the theory of probability.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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
By combining historical geography with modern astronomical calculations, the scientists reconstructed an eclipse that occurred in 709 BCE and determined how it would have appeared from Qufu, the ancient capital of China's Lu Duchy.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
By Ellsberg’s own calculations, he was arrested at protests at least twenty-five times.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
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