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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Used in calculations.

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  • adjective Of, pertaining to, or employing calculation

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Examples

  • The diagrams are named after Richard Feynman, who invented them as a calculational shortcut.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • “Expert Opinion”, in the shape of Merton,Scholes et al., chose to ignore these calculational inconveniences and instead promoted models based on mild randomness – Gaussian.

    There goes the neighborhood | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • The best-known form of QED relies on pictures called Feynman diagrams, after the noted physicist and colorful character Richard Feynman, who invented them as a sort of calculational shortcut.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • Wolfram Alpha is like Google with calculational capability.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Roberts Court “Anti-Environment”? 2009

  • Most physicists particularly experimentalists are content to use the idea of wavefunction collapse as a calculational shortcut and go about the business of predicting and measuring the physical world, for which regular quantum theory works astound-ingly well.

    How to Teach Physics to Your Dog CHAD ORZEL 2009

  • So they are in fact able to derive “QFT calculational tools from first priciples”.

    Richard Feynman Needs His Orange Juice Sean 2008

  • You are right - by and large, people now no longer worry about the fact that they are unable to derive their QFT calculational tools from first principles.

    Richard Feynman Needs His Orange Juice Sean 2008

  • It also suggests that spacetime is really not a physical entity at all, but is more of an auxiliary calculational device.

    Dark Matter: Still Dark. Julianne 2008

  • The metric is a tool, and points defined in a particular metric are calculational entities of sorts.

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

  • Does this mean the curvature “exists,” or does this mean that it is a geometrical calculational device for predicting a measurement?

    Does Space Expand? Sean 2008

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