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Calculator

A calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics.

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Personal computers

Calculators compared to computers

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Calculator

Nodes282
Edges281
Triples274
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007092
Components1

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related to Further reading · 43
Calculator → Archived, Bell Laboratories, Book, Bruce Flamm, Calculator Information Center, Calculators, Categorized Compilation, Columbus, Complex, December, ED199087, European Patent Office Database, Extended Numerical Keyboard, Floating Point Calculator With, G06C15/04, G06C15/06, G06G3/02, G06G3/04Collectors Guide, GB March, Guy Ball
related to Sources · 41
Calculator → Bibcode, Blaise Pascal, California, Chapman, Computing, Computing Technology, Empire, French, Georges, Hamrick, Hand-Held Electronic Calculator, Hermann, Histoire, History, Houston, IEEE Computer Society, Ifrah, Inc, ISBN, Jean
related to Precursors to the electronic calculator · 19
Calculator → Antikythera, BC, Blaise Pascal, Edmund Gunter, Egyptians, Except, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Napier, Pascal, Pascal's, Schickard, Schickard's, Shickard, Sumerians, The, The Renaissance, There, Wilhelm Schickard
related to Use in education · 19
Calculator → As, Calculators, Curriculum, In, In December, Mathematics, National Council, NCTM, Nick Gibb, Others, Research, Schools, Some, State, Teachers, There, UK's Minister, United Kingdom, United States
related to 1970s to mid-1980s · 17
Calculator → AC, Busicom, Canon Inc, General Instrument, Hayakawa Electric, Intel, Japanese, LSI, Mostek, North-American Rockwell Microelectronics, Rockwell International, Sanyo, Sharp Corporation, Texas Instruments, The, There, This
related to External links · 17
Calculator → Anita, Anniversary, Cordic, CS-10A, From Sharp's, Glenrothes, HP, HP-35, Japanese, Mechanical Calculators, Microprocessor, Museum, ROMBell Punch Company, ScotlandHP-35, Shows, Slide Rules, The
related to Scientific pocket calculators · 13
Calculator → B3-18, Enter, Hewlett-Packard, HP, HP-35, It, Launched, Meanwhile, Mostek Mk6020, Polish, RPN, Soviet, The
related to Mid-1980s to present · 12
Calculator → At, Casio, HP, HP-28C, HP-49G, IR, It, PIM, The, TI, TI-89, Voyage
related to Pocket calculators · 12
Calculator → As, By, Cal Tech, Cal-Tech, Curta, For, It, Jack Kilby, Released, Texas Instruments, The, The Curta
related to Calculators compared to computers · 11
Calculator → ARM, Bit, CORDIC, For, MC68000, ROM, RPL, The, This, TI-BASIC, Z80

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calculators first electronic functions used pocket display chip scientific early also use basic computer could models memory led using numbers

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1980s home computersinstance ofbut scientific and graphing models tend to cost more.Computer operating systems as far back as early Unix have included interactive calculator programs0.80text
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LEDs or VFDsinstance ofwhich require much less power than light-emitting displays0.80text
the Royal Solar 1instance ofrealised around 1978 by calculators0.80text
Sharp EL-8026instance ofrealised around 1978 by calculators0.80text
and Teal Photon.The interior of a Casio fx-20 scientific calculator from the mid-1970sinstance ofrealised around 1978 by calculators0.80text
using a VFDinstance ofrealised around 1978 by calculators0.80text
the TI-89instance ofas some very advanced calculators0.80text
the Voyage 200instance ofas some very advanced calculators0.80text

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