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English word

calculation

C1
UK /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn/US /ˌkælkjuˈleɪʃn/
noun

the act or process of using numbers to find out an amount

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Sentence 55 · Pro
Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)
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Very rough numbers—and I certainly would invite others to check our calculations, because they may arrive at different conclusions.

Elon Musk: A future worth getting excited about (TED 2022)

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So, that means all of your calculations have to be right—if you miss, if you miscalculate something, you get an answer wrong—it blows up.

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders LectureSentence 233 · Pro

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