It is a cynical calculation that has worked so far.
It was a shrewd political calculation that has had disastrous effects on some of the poorest places in England.
Now House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis). and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky). have made the same calculation that has failed so many Republicans before them.
It sounded like a recipe for just the sort of dry calculation that has sunk so many outwardly similar modern operas.
Much research in Lagrangian staggered-grid hydrodynamics (SGH) has focused on explicit viscosity models for adding dissipation to a calculation that has shocks.
By my calculation, that has saved $147 million.
"This is the first calculation that has been provided concerning the amount of materials that spilled on Jan . 9" Huffman said.
With the radar on, scientists would now know in seconds whether the spacecraft was where it "thought" it was based on a course calculation that had begun with a relatively rudimentary alignment of the sun and stars.
Some have based their choices on the kind of crass political calculations that have made New York famous or infamous, depending on one's point of view.
To suggest that they are implacable foes also ignores the long history of pragmatism and political calculations that have informed the Haqqani leaders' actions for 40 years.
