Under the AMT, a taxpayer must do a second calculation that doesn't allow itemized miscellaneous deductions such as lawyers' fees.

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Crews do a rough calculation.

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This allows the phone to do a quick shorthand calculation to provide GPS satellite data based on nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell tower data, instead of phoning home ET-style.

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To come up with a quote, a good contractor will do a heat-load calculation to determine what size unit and how much piping to install.

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Or is there also, do you believe, a political calculation that Republicans are making on this based on politics?

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The federal U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines calculator was developed by an innovative lawyer who was looking to develop a tool to help lawyers do the calculation for their clients.

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If the server farm is doing a lot of work to take in cell tower distance data and spit back car locations, it can certainly do each calculation faster than any endpoint, particularly a small one, but what happens when 1 million endpoints are hitting the cloud at the same time?

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To do so is to be guilty of using a simple arithmetic calculation that leans on mean reversal theory.

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But McBride suggests there's one other major factor in the calculation that has little to do with politics and more to do with the simple task of helping a spouse at a critical time.

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