While we might have started out using our fingers and toes to count, humanity has been busy designing machines to help with calculations for hundreds of years. From early counting devices to modern ...

It’s quite likely that calculator manufacturers aren’t the biggest fans of the smartphone. For decades, students and professionals alike had used the trusty calculator whenever they needed to perform ...

If you own an Android device, you might be interested to know that it comes equipped with a scientific calculator. To enable this feature, read on for the surprisingly simple solution. The calculator ...

There are a variety of calculator apps out there for mobile devices (in addition to the permaware ones) but SmartCalc is unique in that its “smartness” is largely due to the app’s ability to store a ...

Scientific calculators were invaluable to most of us through high school and college, freeing us from the yoke of using tables to calculate logarithms and trigonometric functions. Once out in the real ...

Bruce Sherwood, the co-author of Matter and Interactions, had a question for me when I saw him at the American Association of Physics Teachers conference not long ago: "What calculator do you use?" If ...

[Michel Jean] asked a question few others might: what exactly is going on under the hood of a classic HP scientific calculator when one presses the ∫ key? A numerical integration, sure, but how ...