calculation
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So with the average cost of raising a single child costing more and more, young people make a reasonable calculation on how many children are worth having.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
No, the analogy can’t take us that far; there are no ingredients here, just a calculation you could, in principle, do by hand.
From Slate • May 25, 2026
Over the past decade, lattice calculations have become increasingly powerful, but the precision needed for the muon g−2 calculation remained exceptionally difficult to achieve.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The government has committed to conducting a review into the CMS' calculation model and said it was considering the report's recommendations as part of an ongoing review.
From BBC • May 15, 2026
In a storm, when the air pressure sank, you had to offset that drop against the altimetric reading, and very often it was a crude rule-of-thumb calculation.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing calculation
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
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Number and Operations in Base Ten
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