How to avoid the same calculations on column values over and over again in a select?

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Published on 2010-04-07T01:18:21Z Indexed on 2010/04/07 1:23 UTC
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I sometimes write SELECTs on the form:

SELECT
    a.col1+b.col2*c.col4 as calc_col1,
    a.col1+b.col2*c.col4 + xxx as calc_col1_PLUS_MORE
FROM ....
INNER JOIN ...
    ON a.col1+b.col2*c.col4 < d.some_threshold
WHERE a.col1+b.col2*c.col4 > 0

When the calculations get rather involved and used up to 3-5 times within the same SELECT, I would really like to refactor that out in a function or similar in order to
1) hopefully improve performance / make use of cache
2) avoid forgetting to update one of the 4 calculations when I at a later stage realize I need to change the calculation.

I usually have these selects within SPs.

Any ideas?

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