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An employer in the United States may provide transportation benefits to their employees that are tax free up to a certain limit. Under the U.S. Internal Revenue Code section 132(a), the qualified transportation benefits are one of the eight types of statutory employee benefits (also known as fringe benefits) that are excluded from gross income in calculating federal income tax.
On April 3, 1995, Emmet P. Gray, [1] an American programmer, at the time civilian employee at the US Army, now adjunct professor at the Texas A&M University, [2] released WRPN 1.0 (), a public domain open-source software written in Borland C++ 4.0 for early versions of Microsoft Windows.
Because operators are applied one-at-a-time, the user must work out which operator key to use at each stage, and this can lead to problems. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] When discussing these problems, Harold W. Thimbleby has pointed out that button-operated calculators "require numbers and operation signs to be punched in a certain order, and mistakes are easy ...
TI-BASIC 83,TI-BASIC Z80 or simply TI-BASIC, is the built-in programming language for the Texas Instruments programmable calculators in the TI-83 series. [1] Calculators that implement TI-BASIC have a built in editor for writing programs.
The operator's efficiency is measured as the time spent producing product divided by the time the operator is on duty. [2] For example: if an operator is assigned to run a CNC machine tool for seven hours, but they only have four hours' worth of continuous uninterrupted output of workpieces—their MOE rating is 57% (4 divided by 7) for this ...
The Comptometer was the first commercially successful key-driven mechanical calculator, patented in the United States by Dorr Felt in 1887.. A key-driven calculator is extremely fast because each key adds or subtracts its value to the accumulator as soon as it is pressed and a skilled operator can enter all of the digits of a number simultaneously, using as many fingers as required, making ...
For many applications, it is the most convenient way to program any TI calculator, since the capability to write programs in TI-BASIC is built-in. Assembly language (often referred to as "asm") can also be used, and C compilers exist for translation into assembly: TIGCC for Motorola 68000 (68k) based calculators, and SDCC for Zilog Z80 based ...
The build time was advertised as being around three hours, and required a soldering iron and a pair of cutters. [13] [14] In January 1975, the kit was available for US$49.95, half the price at the time of introduction a year earlier, [13] and in December 1975 it was available for £9.95, less than a quarter of the introductory price. [14]