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compute

To perform mathematical operations or general computer processing. For an explanation of "The 3 C's," or how the computer processes data, see computer.



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We compute the TRAMECKSAN, or high heels, to exceed us in number; but the power is wholly on our side.
Yes, my boy; and you need not try to compute the number of these infusoria.
The remotest idea of returning to Nukuheva, unless assured of our vessel's departure, never once entered my mind, and indeed it was questionable whether we could have succeeded in reaching it, divided as we were from the bay by a distance we could not compute, and perplexed too in our remembrance of localities by our recent wanderings.
 
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