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
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
Murali Annavaram, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, likened AI to a calculator.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
He said he viewed it as a tool, much like a calculator to do math, and he isn’t a professional writer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Ten minutes later, I was in line at Kmart, buying three spiral notebooks, a new calculator, a pack of unsharpened pencils, and a pack of Skittles.
From "Please Ignore Vera Dietz" by A.S. King
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That would be "like saying you should be computing without using calculators", he told me.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026
If you’re on your own with the decision, you have to turn to online calculators and self-directed software programs like Boldin and MaxiFi, which are available for a fee.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 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
The women mathematicians dominated their mechanical calculators the same way the test pilots dominated their mechanical planes.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
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