They organize in leagues that play an Internet version of the game on Web sites like Sportsline.com, ESPN.com and Yahoo.com, or in groups that make their own game-by-game calculations.
Even maths books for primary schools include – among examples based on train timetables and children's games – calculations of the number of "American imperialist bastards" killed by the Korean people's army.
They regarded chess as a game of calculation, and calculation, of course, is what computers are good at.
But for a while, Hingis's clever game of calculations did not factor in the emotion that spirited her opponent around the court or the passion that was behind ground strokes that seemed borrowed from a time capsule.
Worried by the potential for banks to game the calculations that underpin these same risk weightings, regulators this month proposed a higher "leverage ratio", a blunter measure of capital that reflects the overall size of a bank's balance-sheet as well as its riskiness.
Julian Sanchez, a former editor at Reason, offers a round up, and a sharp take on the fraught game theory calculations involved in deciding how far to go on those first few dates:This is a tempting line of thought: If libertarians are seen as basically unmoored and "up for grabs," both parties will have more incentive to court us.
Some states require hospitals to explain in writing how they go about discounting charges for hardship patients (as we can see in New York's policy), but you might guess that hospitals worry that patients will game those calculations in order to pay less.
The clarity of forgiveness formulas is also their weakness, because they make it easier for debtors to "game the calculation" and can ultimately make loans more costly for borrowers who pay in full.
According to some calculations – game winning goals, first goals etc - he was the world's leading goalscorer in 2010.
His chief spokesman, Marc La Vorgna, wrote on Twitter before the games that "heavy calculations" were made to ensure that the mayor split his time equitably.
The pixels on that screen have to be controlled by the CPU and graphics processing unit (GPU), and increasing those puts a greater load onto the processing capability of the device; inevitably, that subtracts from what's available for other processes, such as handling touch events or calculations around games.
