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The calculation comes from the Latin word ("pebble"). It is said that shepherds with their sheep comptabilisaient pebbles in a jar at the entrance and exit of the fold. These objects could also be shaped clay in the form of a half-sphere, spheres, and could include conoides pets.
- In science , the word computing can have a mathematical meaning.
- In medicine , we denote by calculations of the mineral masses formed mainly in the urinary tract (kidney stones) and bile (gallstones), but also for example in the tear ducts.
- In philosophy , the word "calculus" can refer to the reason (eg, in Hobbes , , I, 5) or some form of reason (the ratiocination , or instrumental reason ). Reasoning (Latin ratiocinari, calculate) has a pejorative connotation. See also mind , functionalism and computationalism.
- In France, the Plan Calculus is a government plan for years 1960-1970, in the field of computing.
