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  • adjective Impossible to calculate.

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un- +‎ calculable

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Examples

  • There is no doubt that the negative consequeces for their business and personal lives will uncalculable.

    Unspinning the spin 2009

  • When Plaid look back on this decade they will see that ousting Wigley was the single biggest catastrophe of their Assembly history, and a cost that is uncalculable - i.e. they woul; dn; t have got so badly trounced in 2003, the Labour hegermony would have ended in 1999, allowing Plaid to build and spread, and the Tories would have been comfortably in 3rd place, rather than neck and neck.

    Poll shows One Wales support grows 2008

  • There is no doubt that the negative consequeces for their business and personal lives will uncalculable.

    Unspinning the spin 2009

  • The output would definitely still be more random than any computer RNG, but it might have a very uneven and uncalculable distribution, and as you doubtless know a predictable distribution is almost as important to an RNG as the unpredictability of the individual values.

    We are as worms - The Panda's Thumb 2005

  • Steel seems to agree that Kennedy did have to get the missiles out, that this sudden upsetting of the world's balance would bring on uncalculable events even though the Soviets did not intend a sudden, surprise attack.

    An Exchange on the Missile Crisis Hilsman, Roger 1969

  • But suppose we have a chance of flying to others we can measure the length and breadth of, and staving off thereby an uncalculable unknown?

    Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878

  • The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable.

    Essays: Second Series (1844) 1844

  • The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable.

    Essays — Second Series Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

  • Except sometimes you can actually prove that things are inherently uncalculable.

    reddit.com: what's new online! 2010

  • Except sometimes you can actually prove that things are inherently uncalculable.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2010

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