calculator
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"The kids are not learning their math facts because they're becoming calculator hooked," he proclaimed.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Scanning the newspaper, inky fingers and fuzzled minds, scrambling for the calculator and jotting down the codes for Julian Dicks and Juninho.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy will owe $6.2 million in state and local income taxes, according to the calculator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Here’s an extremely simplistic illustration to see how the rent-and-invest versus buy numbers could play out today, using a calculator provided by Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi: A 35-year-old buys a starter home.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 2, 2026
He took out his calculator and got to work.
From "Orbiting Jupiter" by Gary D. Schmidt
Even online calculators have to make assumptions about what will happen to rents, home prices and interest rates over time.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026
Kids shouldn’t be on their phones while doing their homework—though they might argue they need them for calculators and other look-ups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
In 2022, TI reported that it had sold more than 90 million graphing calculators since 1990.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Several breast cancer risk calculators like Boadicea already exist and none are perfect.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
The women mathematicians dominated their mechanical calculators the same way the test pilots dominated their mechanical planes.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
