calculations

Synonyms

math mathematics computing computation deliberation reckoning derived function

Phrases with the word

arithmetical calculations scientific calculations rough calculations base eight calculations ephemeris calculations

Examples

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand. Sun Tzu

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants. Honoré de Balzac

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war. Livy

Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit. Abu Bakar Bashir

Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define. Giuseppe Peano

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. Ihara Saikaku