calculator
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All should have a calculator to help you construct a ladder with the timeline and budget that you would like.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Take care of the big expenses as soon as possible and then don’t bother bringing out the calculator for smaller bills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 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
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
This was a device known as a ‘compass’—a graduated metal instrument that could be used as a calculator.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
That would be "like saying you should be computing without using calculators", he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
There are plenty of calculators available for figuring out your optimal claiming strategy.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
These include the earliest dated set of European navigation instruments found thus far: compasses, protractors, calipers, sounding leads, tide calculators, and a device for calculating speed called a log reel.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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