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computest | computist |

As a verb computest

is archaic second-person singular of compute.

As a noun computist is

one who performs computations.

computest

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic) (compute)

    • 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

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    computist

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who performs computations.
  • * {{quote-web
    • , date = 2013-08-08 , author = Charlotte Mulcare , title = The lost mathematicians: Numbers in the (not so) dark ages , site = plus.maths.org , url = http://plus.maths.org/content/lost-mathematicians-numbers-not-so-dark-early-middle-ages , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Despite the high acclaim and wide acceptance of Bede's work, centuries later, medieval computists' were still working on the same problem. Given the (relatively) confined scope of the mathematics involved, how did computus manage to remain such a core intellectual pursuit? In part, '''computists''' refined the basic model Bede had popularised. The introduction of a ''golden number'' in circa 1150 enabled ' computists to reference a given year's position in the 19-year cycle. It was calculated as (year number, divided modulo 19) + 1. By this reckoning, 2013/ 19, remainder 18; 18+1 = 19. Thus, 2013 is the 19th year in the 19-year cycle.
    (Webster 1913)