calculator
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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
Now there’s even a new online “jock tax” calculator they can consult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Murali Annavaram, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, likened AI to a calculator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He thinks students quickly find alternative calculator options to be more intuitive than the TI-84s.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Because if we were all supposed to carbon-copy our parents, then I’d end up a brain-fried loser who runs away with a foot doctor, or a downtrodden Zen calculator.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
There are online calculators that help people calculate their Coast FI numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Some say customers aren’t exactly paying for innovation, but rather for decades of familiarity on the educator side — along with textbooks that build the calculators into their curricula.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
Several breast cancer risk calculators like Boadicea already exist and none are perfect.
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026
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
No one would confuse the women who used mechanical calculators to process research data with the room-sized electronic devices that performed the same function.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
