6 sentences with 'calculate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word calculate and other words derived from it.
• « Growers in the Yucatan, in the tropical jungle zone of Mexico, calculate that a large, well-populated cave, with some four million bats hunting in flocks, eliminates twenty-five tons of insects every night. »
• « "It's impossible to calculate in monetary terms the support they have given us," Walden asserts. »
• « By simply weighing it, an experienced pizzaiolo is able to calculate the weight of a dough ball with astonishing accuracy. »
• « Archimedes discovered the principle of using the displacement of water to calculate the specific gravity of objects, and devised a series of complex war machines used against Roman forces when his home city of Syracuse in Sicily was under attack. »
• « While it is impossible to calculate anything approaching exact literacy rates at any time before the modern era, it remains clear that literacy began to rise after that low point in the 11th century, with many regular tradesmen and even some peasants acquiring at least basic reading skills by the 14th century. »
• « One German prince had his court preacher calculate the total number of years his large collection of relics would remove from his and his subjects' time in purgatory; the total was 1,902,202 years and 270 days. There was another prince whose total was 39,245,120 years of time free to leave purgatory. »