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Six example sentences with computation, each labelled with its topic.
One computation on the back of a receipt showed the fee would swallow every gain the fund made that year.
Finance
The roof pitch came from a single computation the builder did with a folding rule and a scrap of plywood.
Architecture
Every eclipse prediction in the almanac rests on a computation the astronomers repeat by hand to check the printed tables.
Science
Rendering a single frame of the film took hours of computation, spread across four hundred machines running through the night.
Technology
The inflation figure comes from a computation over thousands of prices collected in shops across the country each month.
Economics
Each move the chess engine considers triggers a computation over millions of positions before it settles on a reply.
Gaming
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