calculator
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Well, it’s time to take off your home-team jersey, grab your calculator and take our business of sports test.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
For this example, I’m using AARP’s investment-returns calculator because it allows you to adjust a variety of variables.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 3, 2026
Researchers at the University of Oxford have created a new calculator that estimates a person's individual risk of developing serious muscle disorders while taking statins.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 30, 2026
Instead, Lodge, who goes by Cabot, picked up an HP-12C financial calculator and never looked back, perhaps with an eye to resurrecting the family’s business bona fides.
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
He had waited so long for his breakthrough, despaired so many times, and he just wanted to be alone for a little while with a pencil and some paper and a calculator and no talking.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
Electronic calculators, for instance, may have helped users solve equations -- but left the method and reasoning process in human hands.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
The advocates were generally happy with what they heard, while also pulling out calculators to assess whether Newsom owes still more to education.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
Lucy is also campaigning for children with dyscalculia to be allowed to use calculators and their personal notes or work books, something she described as Ava's "maths bible," in SATs tests and GCSEs.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
The central actor here is Texas Instruments, the electronics firm best-known for its hand-held calculators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026
“Everyone uses calculators in middle school,” I say, not sure if that’s even true.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
