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The Ready-Reckoner, or Farmer’s Complete Table; Aberystwyth, 19th century. A ready reckoner is a printed book or table containing pre-calculated values, often multiples of given amounts. They were widely used in shops and by tradesmen before the advent of cheap electronic calculators, metric weights and measures and decimal currencies in the ...
The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (started in 1673, when he presented a wooden model to the Royal Society of London [2] and completed in 1694). [1]
The Navigator's Ready Calculator; designed for the practical Sailor, being a complete and easy introduction to navigation, and containing a newly-invented instrument, by means of which all of the cases in the different sailings are solved. William Day: London, 1838 or 1839. The Creed of Saint Athanasius proved by a Mathematical Parallel.
A partially disassembled Curta calculator, showing the digit slides and the stepped drum behind them Curta Type I calculator, top view Curta Type I calculator, bottom view. The Curta is a hand-held mechanical calculator designed by Curt Herzstark. [1] It is known for its extremely compact design: a small cylinder that fits in the palm of the hand.
Key Points from 24/7 Wall St. Financial guru Suze Orman says getting a tax refund is a huge mistake. You're giving the government an interest-free loan and getting nothing in return.
Butternut Squash Lasagna. Fall pasta recipes for the win! Get your autumnal fill of butternut squash sauce, fresh sage, Italian sausage, and of course, lots of melty cheese.
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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.