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For reference, L.A.’s tallest building, the Wilshire Grand Center, has a ratio of roughly 10.5, depending on how you calculate the square footage and acreage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

People didn’t have to manually calculate number after number on paper.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Using both datasets will allow scientists to build more detailed models of the stars and calculate properties including their chemical abundances and the rates at which stellar winds strip away their mass.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026

To calculate the number of days above the heatwave threshold, we first averaged the daily maximum temperature for each grid cell with its nearest grid cells on every day.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

My role was to help calculate the trajectory of the Lunar Lander that would get them there.

From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson

A Monte Carlo simulation, widely used in financial planning, calculates the probability that you’ll run out of money before you die.

From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026

When you gaze into the black box, the black box calculates how best to gaze back.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

A measure of consumer prices that took what has gone on with home prices and interest rates into account would be up by over 40% from January 2020 levels, Cramer calculates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Both Heathrow and Gatwick, for example, have moved away from mandating minimum distances between incoming aircraft in favour of a system which continually calculates spacing times based on wind speeds and aircraft types.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

"Actually"—Fifi calculates by lifting her fingers one by one from the baby's back, then patting them down—"it was the fourth night. But I knew the minute I saw him."

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

“Everything is perfectly calculated, so you cannot just say, ‘You need more time, you’re going to launch it later,’ so you need to finish on time,” Muñoz said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

That could allow scientists to investigate quantum systems whose behavior cannot yet be calculated precisely, potentially including problems too difficult for classical computers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Only 28% of nurdles which spilled into a river have been recovered and are expected to continue washing up on beaches in the future, scientists have calculated.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Analysts at Goldman Sachs Group and elsewhere have calculated that more than $1 trillion has already been spent on the data center build-out since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Quickly she calculated a way to eat only half of the food tonight and the rest for their next dinner.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt

Home prices also aren’t included—the Labor Department calculates housing prices by calculating how much it would cost owners to rent the homes they live in rather than what those homes would cost to buy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

For companies that still operate old-fashioned pension plans, higher yields mean higher discount rates, which are key to calculating the present value of their liabilities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Rubner said downside protection is inexpensive, calculating that demand for market protection is in the bottom first percentile of the entire year.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

Sherriff ordered the Labor Department to “promptly produce” a new methodology for calculating H-2A wage rates consistent with his decision.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

Making books fly around her room like birds, calculating how far they can travel before she must adjust her technique.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern