calculator

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“The political calculator changes,” said Sidharth Kaushal, an expert in naval power at U.K. think tank the Royal United Services Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"For Ava, her working norm is a calculator and work book, they can write their little formulas in there and that needs to follow them throughout life in the school system," Lucy said.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The company used the MIT living wage calculator to determine cost of living by region for single adults and families of four.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2026

The same is true if they have a family history of atherosclerotic disease at an early age or a high risk of developing it over the next three decades as measured by the Prevent calculator.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Give him a calculator and he can change the world, but whenever the car breaks down, and the mechanic asks him what’s wrong, his response is usually, “It broke.”

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman