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    A slide calculator, also known as an Addiator after the best-known brand, is a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction, once made by...
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    A slide rule is a hand-operated mechanical calculator consisting of slidable rulers for evaluating mathematical operations such as multiplication, division...
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    A scientific calculator is an electronic calculator, either desktop or handheld, designed to perform calculations using basic (addition, subtraction, multiplication...
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    calculator The Museum of HP calculators (Slide Rules and Mechanical Calculators section) Microprocessor and single chip calculator history; foundations in...
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    the slide rules and adding machines that were being used for computation. With this in mind, HP built the HP 9100 desktop scientific calculator. This...
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    Curta (redirect from Curta Calculator)
    The Curta is a hand-held mechanical calculator designed by Curt Herzstark. It is known for its extremely compact design: a small cylinder that fits in...
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    (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a slide rule. Most mechanical calculators were comparable in size to small desktop computers and...
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    electronic calculators in the 1970s, slide rules were an important type of portable calculating instrument. A slide rule consists of a body and a slider that...
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    partially inspired by the Digi-Comp II. Slide calculator, around 1845 - Also known as Addiator, is a mechanical calculator capable of addition and subtraction...
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    HP-35 (category HP calculators)
    time, slide rules were the only practical portable devices for performing trigonometric and exponential functions, as existing pocket calculators could...
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    The Fuller calculator, sometimes called Fuller's cylindrical slide rule, is a cylindrical slide rule with a helical main scale taking 50 turns around the...
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    Fowler Calculators Ltd was a manufacturer of slide rules and other scientific and mathematical instruments, based in Manchester, England and founded by...
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  • around in a timeline Slide rule, a simple analog calculator Slide (motion) Landslide, the movement of soil, mud or rock down a slope Slide (geography), fixed...
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    also produced, resembling calculators, rather than manual slide rules. Aviation remains one of the few places that the slide rule is still in widespread...
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    Arithmometer (category Mechanical calculators)
    the first digital mechanical calculator strong and reliable enough to be used daily in an office environment. This calculator could add and subtract two...
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    inch calculator's processor would originate the vast majority of Texas Instruments’ revenue. In 1973, the handheld calculator SR-10 (named after slide rule)...
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  • a cylindrical slide rule with helical scales, primarily for business uses initially. The product was named Otis King's Patent Calculator, and was manufactured...
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    A pinwheel calculator is a class of mechanical calculator described as early as 1685, and popular in the 19th and 20th century, calculating via wheels...
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    Napier's bones (category Mechanical calculators)
    following example calculates 52749 × 4 = 210996. Slide calculator Genaille–Lucas rulers Pascal's calculator Slide rule John Napier (1617). Rabdologiæ (in Latin)...
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  • Soroban (redirect from Soroban calculator)
    despite the proliferation of practical and affordable pocket electronic calculators. The soroban is composed of an odd number of columns or rods, each having...
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  • in which calculators interpret keystrokes. These can be categorized into two main types: On a single-step or immediate-execution calculator, the user...
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    addiators, which have been replaced by electronic calculators and computer software, wheel charts and slide charts have survived to the present time. There...
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  • UIL. Calculator Applications is designed to test students' abilities to use general calculator functions. Calculator Applications replaced the Slide Rule...
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  • 2009-10-06. Such as the TI SR-10. Texas Instruments electronic slide rule calculator SR-10 (PDF). Dallas: Texas Instruments Incorporated. 1973. 1304-739-266...
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    TI-84 Plus series (category Graphing calculators)
    The TI-84 Plus is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments which was released in early 2004. There is no original TI-84, only the TI-84 Plus, the...
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    Transit (1940s) Pocket calculator Fraction adder (1913) "Arithmometer" desk calculator In 1891, K&E started manufacturing slide rules. Over time it produced...
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    specifically to the method used to enter calculations into hardware or software calculators, which often have additional side effects and implications depending...
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  • Casio V.P.A.M. calculators are scientific calculators made by Casio which use Casio's Visually Perfect Algebraic Method (V.P.A.M.), Natural Display or...
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    Century Jim Falk's things-that-count.com showing the rare 10 slider Millionaire calculator The Millionaire Machine with Clifford Stoll and Brady Haran...
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  • arithmetic calculations, preceding the slide-rule and the electronic calculator, and consisted of perforated pebbles sliding on iron bars. Philosophy portal...
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