compute
Electronic spreadsheets can be instructed to perform any computation desired.
Our smart card can now handle complex mathematical computations.
The control of the robot arm requires the computation power of its host PC.

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computation | American Dictionary

computation
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌkɑm·pjəˈteɪ·ʃən/
mathematics
calculation:
[ U ]the computation of the square root of pi

computational

adjective mathematicsus/ˌkɑm·pjəˈteɪ·ʃə·nəl/

computationally

adverb mathematicsus/ˌkɑm·pjəˈteɪ·ʃən·əl·i/

Examples of computation

computation
There is no theoretical reason for claiming that representations and computation need to be conscious.
In other words, backward-reconstruct paths of zeros that lead to the output of the computation.
The former tries to delay some computations while the second drives different computations through a tree of branching paths.
The same sequence of r random numbers has been applied to all computations.
We can do things with, and do things to, emergent forms in an ongoing computation.
Computation also shows that the optical thickness cannot be a factor.
These computations show that there is a critical size rs for the shell thickness rs at which the energy density has a maximum.
Note that, when using general shell elements, these computations are not straightforward since the membrane and bending energies are combined in the basic shell model.
Two stages of curve detection suggest two styles of visual computation.
Thus, a control expression is in a sense a self-contained computation.
The distance map is determined using just two videoscans and thus only two computations per point.
To facilitate tracing, we define types and functions to produce traces of probabilistic and randomized computations.
Finally, when they are compared with respect to the easiness of visual computations of the required motion parameters, rotation translation appears simpler.
To be consistent with our own viewpoint, we have then to posit that early visual processing involves neither representation nor computation.
After these rather crude cases were performed, the parameter s for interesting selected single cases with very detailed computations can be done.
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