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The act or process of computing; calculation; reckoning.
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The result of computation; the amount computed.
Examples of computation in a Sentence
The number of eggs laid is enormous, one computation putting it at twenty thousand.
Actiaca Aera was a computation of time from the battle of Actium.
It is not known for what reason the alteration was made; but it is conjectured that it was for the purpose of causing a newfrevolution of the cycle of nineteen years (which was introduced into the ecclesiastical computation about this time by Anatolius, bishop of Hierapolis) to begin with the first year of the reign of Diocletian.
They are the best for analytical computation.
It May Be Remarked, That As A (C _ 17) W' The Value Of A Will Be O Till C 17C 17 =25 Or C =42; Therefore, Till The Year 4200, A May Be Neglected In The Computation.
Here were discovered in the caves near Walzin the bones of prehistoric men, and other evidence of the primitive occupants of this globe at a period practically beyond computation.
He held that thought has in itself no power of development, and ultimately reduced it to arithmetical computation.
The principal modification is that,up to the present time, stellar astronomy has not advanced so far that a computation of the perturbations in each case of a system of stars is either necessary or possible, except in exceptional cases.
He long adhered to the traditional belief that all celestial revolutions must be performed equably in circles; but a laborious computation of seven recorded oppositions of Mars at last persuaded him that the planet travelled in an ellipse, one focus of which was occupied by the sun.
His first work, Fundamenta nova, appeared in 1838, and contained an exposition of his ingenious and peculiar methods of computation.
During the twenty years following he devoted a large part of his energies to the numerical computation of the lunar inequalities, the redetermination of the elements of motion, and the preparation of new tables for computing the moon's position.
But Adams in 1853 1 showed that the previous computations of the acceleration were only a rude first approximation, and that a more rigorous computation reduced the result to about one-half.
The amount of retardation does not admit of accurate computation, owing to the uncertainty both as to the amount of the oceanic friction from which it arises and of the exact height and form of the tidal wave, the action of the moon on which produces the effect.
To develop advanced theoretical and computation models of acoustic cavitation and sonochemistry.
Kolmogorov's proposal outlined strives for the firmer and less contentious ground expressed in finite combinatorics and effective computation.
Speaking of Owen Barfield's work; see chapter 23, " Can We transcend computation?
This is often not the case, and we need to consider restarting the computation in a controlled fashion.
Perhaps we could look for the pattern of communications that would be required to collect the data from the distributed computation.
One possibility is to assume isotropic sky conditions at all times and so simplify computation since diffuse radiation is then independent of direction.
They all require a certain amount of numerical computation.
It is not my intention to turn you into experts in neural computation - that is not possible in the time we have available.
Non-classical computation encompasses many different approach to tackle some or all of these problems.
Their potential use in quantum computation is very exciting.
Once all the data to be updated has been updated, one of the digest methods should be called to complete the hash computation.
In less extreme cases, the computation of the beta weights and their standard errors can become very imprecise, due to round-off error.
The most costly step in the serial 2 nd derivative algorithm is the computation of the 2 nd derivative two-electron integrals.
He proposed simple and small convolution masks in combination with the computation of the local variance using a moving window in the image.
The counting efficiency computation for electron capture nuclides is not considered.
Molecular Computation Using DNA to solve computational problems can allow massive parallelism, by exploring 10 19 cases in parallel.
Wouldn't it be nice (perhaps even parsimonious) if our low level and high level accounts shared the same characteristics of computation?
What conclusions do you draw from the computation of the posterior probability?
When the input configuration is almost but not quite singular, the computation will be prone to rounding errors.
However, the computation time to perform a complete search is not tractable.
All this is true, but three readings instead of one for each pointing, much more figure-work in computation (especially if corrections have to be applied to the scale readings to reduce them to exact normal screw readings), are factors which involve a far greater expenditure of time than making a few additional turns of a screw in the process of measurement.
Of Japanese there were 3500, of Hindu and Sinhalese 4600, according to recent computation, but the policy of the Commonwealth is adverse to further immigration of other than whites.
At the lowest computation 37 genera seem to be peculiar to it, though it is certain that species of several are regularly wont to wander beyond its limits in winter seeking a southern climate.
It is a challenging task to study these problems in the setting of quantum computation.
Any computation in this quotient group will be ` ` shadowed ' ' in the source group.
In brief my research interests lie in the wider area of theory and semantics of computation, language and logic.
Call for Papers Original papers are solicited in all areas of unconventional computation.
Computation codes for speciation analysis were evaluated and tested in interactive exercises.
This allows routine computation of undamped vibration of any linear structure, for example by Finite Element methods.
Add-on assessments that address the academic components of word analysis, vocabulary, language mechanics, spelling, and mathematics computation.
More than half of the states use the "high-quarter benefit" computation method to determine how much you receive.
Reduced rates shown on the Tax Computation worksheet apply only to logging vehicles.
Others are relics of an earlier geological period, when land areas 1 Authorities differ in their methods and results of computation of these and other similar measurements.
The derivation of the distance of the sun by it is of such interest from its simplicity that we shall show the computation.
There can be no exact computation of time or placing of events without a fixed point or epoch from which the reckoning takes its start.
Since that time they have generally employed a mundane era, and dated from the creation of the world, which, according to their computation, took place 3760 years and about three months before the beginning of our era.
The chronological computation of Julius Africanus was adopted by the Christians of Alexandria, who accordingly reckoned 5500 years from the creation of Adam to the birth of Christ.