compute
verb (used with object)
to determine by calculation; reckon; calculate.
had been computing
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past perfect progressiveof compute.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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Mr. Temple paused for breath, and Frank, who had been computing mentally, interrupted.
From The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border by Gerald Breckenridge
It appeared to be a statement of his affairs, in which he had been computing the liabilities of the firm.
From The Firm of Girdlestone by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
