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Meanings of computation in English

Russian
вычисление
Portuguese
cômputo
Spanish
cálculo
Catalan
còmput
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Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities.

        вычисление
        Usage of computation in English
        1
        After seven and a half million years of computation, it replied 'forty-two'.
        What does a martian look like?
        2
        The book convinced him such lengths weren't necessary: he just needed computation.
        The Guardian
        3
        Amazon charges for many of its products, including computation time and storage.
        Mysql high availability
        4
        Someone has to cover the cost of computation on a public blockchain.
        Wired
        5
        The cost of this dinner may be seen by the following computation:
        Essays; Political, Economical, and Philosophical — Volume 1
        6
        The computation was parallelized and implemented on a general purpose multi-core architecture.
        Pubmed
        7
        The cost in suffering, broken lives, and broken hearts is beyond computation.
        Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
        8
        We show that the computation time is linear over various network sizes.
        Pubmed
        9
        Actiaca Aera was a computation of time from the battle of Actium.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        10
        Now, here, both the Egyptians and the Greeks made an erroneous computation.
        Letters on England
        11
        We had continued the computation of our observations at every possible interval.
        Autobiography of Sir George Biddell Airy
        12
        By the most moderate computation they must have lost over two thousand.
        By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War
        13
        These bring up the computation to a figure higher by several thousands.
        The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. / From the Acc...
        14
        The theory is easily understood, however, although the computation is somewhat intricate.
        Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888
        15
        I wonder whence the computation can arise, that this should discourage industry.
        The Commonwealth of Oceana
        16
        Numerical computation of this kind might almost be described as his pastime.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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        Computation through the time
        Computation across language varieties
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