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  2. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    The pocket-sized Hewlett-Packard HP-35 scientific calculator was the first handheld device of its type, but it cost US$395 in 1972. This was justifiable for some engineering professionals, but too expensive for most students. Around 1974, lower-cost handheld electronic scientific calculators started to make slide rules largely obsolete.

  3. Wikipedia:Size in volumes - Wikipedia

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    In June 2015, artist Michael Mandiberg (User:Theredproject) generated a 7,473-volume print-ready collection of the English Wikipedia in PDF format, printed wallpaper representing the spines of the books, and printed over 100 volumes through print on demand service Lulu, as part of an art installation at the Denny Gallery in New York City.

  4. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    Friden made a calculator that also provided square roots, basically by doing division, but with added mechanism that automatically incremented the number in the keyboard in a systematic fashion. The last of the mechanical calculators were likely to have short-cut multiplication, and some ten-key, serial-entry types had decimal-point keys.

  5. Trachtenberg system - Wikipedia

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    The answer must be found one digit at a time starting at the least significant digit and moving left. The last calculation is on the leading zero of the multiplicand. Each digit has a neighbor, i.e., the digit on its right. The rightmost digit's neighbor is the trailing zero. The 'halve' operation has a particular meaning to the Trachtenberg ...

  6. Calculation - Wikipedia

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    A calculation is a deliberate mathematical process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more outputs or results.The term is used in a variety of senses, from the very definite arithmetical calculation of using an algorithm, to the vague heuristics of calculating a strategy in a competition, or calculating the chance of a successful relationship between two people.

  7. Image moment - Wikipedia

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    In image processing, computer vision and related fields, an image moment is a certain particular weighted average of the image pixels' intensities, or a function of such moments, usually chosen to have some attractive property or interpretation.

  8. Quadrature (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    The lune of Hippocrates was the first curved figure to have its exact area calculated mathematically.. Greek mathematicians understood the determination of an area of a figure as the process of geometrically constructing a square having the same area (squaring), thus the name quadrature for this process.

  9. Summed-area table - Wikipedia

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    This method is naturally extended to continuous domains. [2]The method can be also extended to high-dimensional images. [6] If the corners of the rectangle are with in {,}, then the sum of image values contained in the rectangle are computed with the formula {,} ‖ ‖ where () is the integral image at and the image dimension.