How to Use calculation in a Sentence

calculation

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  • The book reveals the cold calculations that were behind the government's policies.
  • The computer can do millions of calculations each second.
  • Careful calculation is required to determine the required amount of fuel.
  • His positions are based on political calculation of what voters want to hear.
  • According to experts' calculations, that star will explode within two billion years.
  • Based on this calculation, the black hole in UHZ1 must be at least 107 times the mass of the Sun.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The deal will value Arm at as much as $54.5 billion at the top end of the range, according to Bloomberg News calculations.
    — Liana Baker, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The line for chicken fingers was, per my calculation, fifteen times longer than the line for beer.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
  • Shoppers have to do rapid real-time calculations about whether a batch is worth their time, and then act fast to secure it.
    — Britt Peterson, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The researchers did the calculation, assuming the black hole formed about 200 million years after the Big Bang.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Just keep in mind that with a little calculation, almost any of your favorite recipes can be scaled back or batch-cooked to fit the smaller bill.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Dec. 2023
  • In a calculation of the homicide clearance rate using cases that were cleared by arrest, the rate is 49%.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
  • By my calculation, that comes to 17 thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, which this year is $6.4 trillion.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • The event takes place post-peak TV, however, with a new sense of realism and calculation flooding the world’s TV and film industries.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The first calculation of pi was done by Archimedes, a legendary mathematician of the ancient world, in the centuries leading up to the common era.
    — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2024
  • How many Fox News employees have made the same calculations as Grossberg?
    — Erik Wemple, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • In that scheme, the qubit savings largely survived the calculation burden, but at the cost of computation taking longer to run.
    — Charlie Wood, Quanta Magazine, 25 Aug. 2023
  • By their calculations, those flares should unfurl over months rather than minutes.
    — Zack Savitsky, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2023
  • But an aborted June 24 mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin, the mercenary tycoon, seems to have changed the calculation for the Russian leader.
    — Paul Sonne, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The surprise rules wiped about $80 billion in value from the industry that day, according to a Bloomberg calculation.
    — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But the real calculation is one that’s all but impossible to figure out: Is the pleasure of a Double Big Mac worth the potential harm?
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2024
  • These days, though, Mac buyers have to make some calculations before choosing.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
  • The Bloomberg Billionaires Index continues to use the options from that pay package, which are one of Musk’s largest assets, in its calculations of his wealth.
    — Vernal Galpotthawela, Fortune, 6 Apr. 2024
  • The new calculation would multiply the parent's income by 15% as well as by the family's number of children.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024
  • After an initial calculation showed that the number of days that had elapsed since the founding of The Times did not correspond with that day’s issue number, the question became: Why not?
    — David W. Dunlap, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • This reflected a rise in wholesale car prices earlier in the year that the previous CPI calculations hadn’t digested yet, and that showed up in the April figures.
    — Nate Dicamillo, Quartz, 10 May 2023
  • The calculation is based on a tanker’s depth in the water before and after the oil was loaded, a measurement used by industry analysts.
    — Christiaan Triebert, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Energized by the finding, Hubble carried out the calculations and realized the Cepheid had led him to an even greater discovery.
    — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The result is as much as 3.4-fold boost in speed for certain machine-learning-critical calculations.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Dec. 2023
  • That calculation is based on recent rates for a buyer who makes a 20% down payment and spends 25% of their gross monthly income on housing expenses.
    — Marley Jay, NBC News, 21 Oct. 2023

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