calculus

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“It seems for Jews that there is a calculus of the lesser of evils,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

That calculus is also dependent on the “broader context,” he added, citing the fact that inflation has run above the Fed’s 2% annual target for the past five years.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Mortgage rates ticked higher last week, continuing their march above 6% and potentially complicating the calculus for buyers and sellers at the beginning of a spring season that had been showing green shoots.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 12, 2026

For the owners, however, the calculus on all of this is quite different.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026

The inventors of calculus, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, created the most powerful mathematical method ever by dividing by zero and adding an infinite number of zeros together.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife