calculator
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The IRS has posted a calculator to help figure withholding on wages and pensions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 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
Murali Annavaram, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, likened AI to a calculator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The first Saturday it was warm enough, he walked in circles around the base of the tree with a calculator and a cheat sheet of geometry equations.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
"I would give them notepads, pens, calculators and a stationery set, for example pencil cases, rulers and protractors."
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
That would be "like saying you should be computing without using calculators", he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
So before you proceed with your plan, try to work your numbers through various calculators and see what works best for you.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 15, 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
Later, I would learn that the women of West Computing could type ten digits at a time into their calculators from memory.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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