Mathematical operation or series of operations which takes some input and gives an output.
A calculation is at the simplest level the execution of some mathematical equation. Based upon the composition of this equation, including variables, operators or more complex functions implementing user-defined logic, a particular calculation can be very crucial to the correct operation of an overall system.
In software there are many different mathematical operators which may make up an equation a calculation executes:
- Addition (+)
- Subtraction (-)
- Multiplication (x)
- Division (/)
- Bitwise AND (&)
- Bitwise OR (|)
- Bitwise XOR (^)
- Bitwise NOR (~)
- Bitwise LSHIFT (<<)
- Bitwise RSHIFT (>>)