• Primitive Calculators were an Australian post-punk band, formed in 1978. Described by British critic Everett True as sounding like "a very aggressive...
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    Australia from late 1978 until early 1981. Instigated by groups Primitive Calculators and Whirlywhirld, this scene was concentrated in the inner suburbs...
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  • band Primitive Calculators in 2004, which was the band's sole official release at the time. The label released the 17-track Primitive Calculators and Friends...
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  • Military Ploho[citation needed] The Pogues The Police The Pop Group Primitive Calculators The Proclaimers The Psychedelic Furs Public Image Ltd Pylon The...
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    mechanical calculators were comparable in size to small desktop computers and have been rendered obsolete by the advent of the electronic calculator and the...
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  • by Ollie Olsen on lead vocals. Along with fellow Melbourne group Primitive Calculators, Whirlywirld was instrumental in fostering the experimental little...
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  • Cult May 10: Phoenix May 17: Holy Fuck May 24: St Vincent May 31: Primitive Calculators Jun 7: The Amity Affliction Jun 14: Josh Homme from Queens of the...
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  • Lowenstein. Philip Brophy Alannah Hill Rowland S. Howard Ollie Olsen Primitive Calculators "We're living on dog food. So What?" by Peter Galvin, SBS Movies...
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  • Two: "Diseases" (Thrush & the Cunts) "Pumping Ugly Muscle" (The Primitive Calculators) "Golf Course" (Hutchence) "The Green Dragon" (Hutchence) "Shivers"...
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    which thrived from 1978 to 1981. Initially led by local groups the Primitive Calculators and Whirlywirld, it helped foster the careers of a number of notable...
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  • number g is a primitive root modulo n if every number a coprime to n is congruent to a power of g modulo n. That is, g is a primitive root modulo n if...
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  • Ugly". Vice. Retrieved 9 October 2017. "Primitive Calculators: Releases from 1979 to 2013". Primitive Calculators. Archived from the original on 14 September...
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    (3, 4, 5) is a primitive Pythagorean triple whereas (6, 8, 10) is not. Every Pythagorean triple can be scaled to a unique primitive Pythagorean triple...
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    ballroom stage around this time include Crime and the City Solution, Primitive Calculators, Equal Local and Models, as well as Essendon Airport and Tsk Tsk...
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  • Band scene. It involved musical artists such as Essendon Airport, Primitive Calculators and Whirlywirld. In the early 2010s, the term "dolewave" was coined...
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  • Stuart had previously been in the infamous 1980s post punk band the Primitive Calculators. The Tender Trap arrived in a vibrant period for eclectic contemporary...
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    sharing a DIY ethic and a passion for experimentation. Led by the Primitive Calculators, the Fitzroy-based Little Band scene gave rise to groups such as...
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  • in Melbourne's inner suburbs from 1978 until early 1981. Led by Primitive Calculators and Whirlywirld, the scene involved many short-lived bands which...
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    In calculus, an antiderivative, inverse derivative, primitive function, primitive integral or indefinite integral of a continuous function f is a differentiable...
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  • Store Day 2013. In 2015, Genjing Records took the Melbourne band Primitive Calculators on tour in China performing at Split Works' Jue Festival in Beijing...
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    Nomination https://tagg.com.au/event/which-way-is-china-film-premiere-primitive-calculators-white/ [dead link‍] "Coal seam gas documentary to throw light on...
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    HP-20S (category HP calculators)
    value of money List of Hewlett-Packard products: Pocket calculators HP calculators "More calculators". Analog Computing Magazine. JE Publishers. May 1989...
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    who computes": a person performing mathematical calculations, before calculators became available. Alan Turing described the "human computer" as someone...
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    mechanical calculator, Odhner arithmometer, had not replaced them in Russia. According to Yakov Perelman, some businessmen attempting to import calculators into...
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    and thus decided to market them as calculators. Additionally, at that time, people were more likely to buy calculators than computers, and, purchasing agents...
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  • earliest-discovered examples of a total computable function that is not primitive recursive. All primitive recursive functions are total and computable, but the Ackermann...
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    computer in 1983, a very primitive GUI presented a low resolution sketch of a desktop, complete with telephone, drawers, calculator, etc. The user made their...
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    TI-57 (category Texas Instruments programmable calculators)
    on MyCalcDB (database about 1970s and 1980s pocket calculators) TI-57 on The Datamath Calculator Museum. TI-57 Program Emulator including a few dozen...
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    motors. Mechanical calculators, used before small electronic calculators became available in the 1970s. Relatively small calculators were used, for example...
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    The modulo operation, as implemented in many programming languages and calculators, is an application of modular arithmetic that is often used in this context...
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