calculus
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They unpack David Ellison’s calculus, the potential ripple effects, and more.
From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026
Average grades in preparatory math, precalculus and calculus across UC continue their five-year decline, while D and F grades, no-pass marks and withdrawals in those courses have gone up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The calculus of pros and cons determines what students are willing to pay to attend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
So right off the bat, that changes the calculus in your question.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
It seemed like he was good at everything—he helped Theo with calculus, he could destroy chemistry without blinking, he slept through his A+ in English, and everything else seemed to bore him.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019
Midway through Infinite Powers, Steven Strogatz writes that Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz both “died in excruciating pain while suffering from calculi — a bladder stone for Newton, a kidney stone for Leibniz”.
From Nature ● Apr. 1, 2019
These should not be set down as biliary calculi without further developments.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
Johann Kentmann, a physician of Torgau, devoted a great deal of attention to the study of the formation of all kinds of calculi in human beings, biliary, salivary and intestinal.
From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh
Cholesterine, ko-les′te-rin, n. a substance occurring abundantly in bile and biliary calculi, probably a monovalent alcohol.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
“Do I think I underestimated some factors and overestimated some others? Sure. Do I think that there were calculations and calculuses that I made? Yes,” Porter went on.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024
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