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Calculation vs. Reckoning — What's the Difference?

Calculation vs. Reckoning — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Calculation and Reckoning

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Calculation

A calculation is a deliberate process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more results. The term is used in a variety of senses, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to the vague heuristics of calculating a strategy in a competition, or calculating the chance of a successful relationship between two people.

Reckoning

The act of counting or computing.

Calculation

The act, process, or result of calculating.

Reckoning

An itemized bill or statement of a sum due.

Calculation

An estimate based on probabilities.
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Reckoning

A settlement of accounts
A day of reckoning.

Calculation

Careful, often cunning estimation and planning of likely outcomes, especially to advance one's own interests.

Reckoning

The act or process of calculating the position of a ship or an aircraft.

Calculation

The act or process of calculating.

Reckoning

The position so calculated.

Calculation

The result of calculating.

Reckoning

The action of calculating or estimating something.
By that reckoning, it would take six weeks to go five miles.

Calculation

(countable) Reckoning, estimate.
By my calculation, we should be there by midnight.

Reckoning

An opinion or judgement.
Day of reckoning

Calculation

(countable) An expectation based on circumstances.

Reckoning

A summing up or appraisal.

Calculation

The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.

Reckoning

The settlement of accounts, as between parties.

Calculation

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate.
The mountain is not so his calculation makes it.

Reckoning

The working out of consequences or retribution for one's actions.

Calculation

An expectation based on circumstances.
The lazy gossips of the port,Abhorrent of a calculation crost,Began to chafe as at a personal wrong.

Reckoning

(archaic) The bill (UK) or check (US), especially at an inn or tavern.

Calculation

The procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods

Reckoning

(archaic) Rank or status.

Calculation

Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

Reckoning

The act of one who reckons, counts, or computes; the result of reckoning or counting; calculation.
Even reckoning makes lasting friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often.
He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived.

Calculation

Planning something carefully and intentionally;
It was the deliberation of his act that was insulting

Reckoning

The charge or account made by a host at an inn.
A coin would have a nobler use than to pay a reckoning.

Reckoning

Esteem; account; estimation.
You make no further reckoning of it [beauty] than of an outward fading benefit nature bestowed.

Reckoning

The calculation of a ship's position, either from astronomical observations, or from the record of the courses steered and distances sailed as shown by compass and log, - in the latter case called dead reckoning (see under Dead); - also used for dead reckoning in contradistinction to observation.

Reckoning

Problem solving that involves numbers or quantities

Reckoning

A bill for an amount due

Reckoning

The act of counting;
The counting continued for several hours

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