calculus

That concession appeared to reflect a calculus by the Trump administration that a diplomatic breakthrough between Saudi Arabia and Israel isn't likely to happen for some time.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

It is a calculus playing out across the tech industry as a new generation of AI-powered coding assistants transforms how software gets built.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

All these decades later, I understand the calculus but remain baffled by that reasoning.

From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026

It has been a bonanza for options dealers who use stochastic calculus to spit out the right prices.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

It would be many years before mathematicians began to free calculus from its mystical underpinnings, for the mathematical world was busy fighting over who invented calculus.

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

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

Trilabe, trī′lāb, n. a three-pronged surgical instrument for removing calculi from the bladder.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Habitual costiveness and the presence of calculi, are frequent causes of spasmodic colic.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

Professor Nasse, of Bonn, where my son studied medicine at the time, has analyzed the calculi, and has found them to be urate of lime.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

“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