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Compute vs Suppute - What's the difference?

compute | suppute |

As verbs the difference between compute and suppute

is that compute is to reckon or calculate while suppute is (obsolete) to calculate; to compute; to reckon; to supputate.

compute

English

Verb

(comput)
  • To reckon or calculate.
    • Can anyone here compute the square root of 10201?
  • (informal) To make sense.
    • Does that compute , or do I need to explain further?

    Related terms

    * computable * computability * computation * computational * computer * computing * miscompute * recompute * count

    External links

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    suppute

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To calculate; to compute; to reckon; to supputate.
  • *1727 Isaac Newton, Antient Chronologies Amended , Introduction, 4:
  • *:Others supputing the times by the Succession of the Kings of the Lacedæmonians, affirm that he was not a few years older than the first Olympiad.

    • References

    * * Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language , Sixth Edition (1785) ----