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  2. Stepped reckoner - Wikipedia

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    To multiply by numbers over 9: The multiplicand is set into the operand dials. The first (least significant) digit of the multiplier is set into the multiplier dial as above, and the crank is turned, multiplying the operand by that digit and putting the result in the accumulator. The input section is shifted one digit to the left with the end ...

  3. Mental calculator - Wikipedia

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    A mental calculator or human calculator is a person with a prodigious ability in some area of mental calculation (such as adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing large numbers). In 2005, a group of researchers led by Michael W. O'Boyle, an American psychologist previously working in Australia and now at Texas Tech University , has used MRI ...

  4. Casio FX-502P series - Wikipedia

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    The FX-501P and FX-502P were programmable calculators, manufactured by Casio from 1978/1979. [citation needed] They were the predecessors of the FX-601P and FX-602P.It is likely that the FX-501P/502P were the first LCD programmable calculators to be produced as up until 1979 (and the introduction of the HP-41C) no manufacturer had introduced such a device.

  5. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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    For 40 years, [57] the arithmometer was the only mechanical calculator available for sale and was sold all over the world. By 1890, about 2,500 arithmometers had been sold [ 58 ] plus a few hundreds more from two licensed arithmometer clone makers (Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883).

  6. Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery

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    What is probably the world's oldest ice, dating back 1.2m years ago, has been dug out from deep within Antarctica. Million year-old bubbles could solve ice age mystery Skip to main content

  7. 70 million-year-old giant dinosaur skeleton found connected ...

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    A nearly complete and intact dinosaur skeleton has been excavated in France. The specimen is a Titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs of its time.

  8. Would You Rather Have a Penny Doubled Every Day for a Month ...

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    It can reach five million dollars and, then finally, on day 31, more than $10.7 million. But that’s how compound growth works. When you think about saving money, you might think about your money ...

  9. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.