It’s the eternal question hackers face: do you built it, or do you buy it? The low cost and high availability of electronic gadgets means we increasingly take the latter option. Especially since it ...

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 ...

In certain contexts, such as higher education, users require a scientific calculator that is more capable of solving problems in science, engineering, and mathematics. Microsoft Mathematics is a very ...

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 ...

Launch the Calculator app on macOS. Hold on the Command button, then tap the number 2 on your keyboard. This will reveal the scientific calculator and its dedicated buttons and options. There's also a ...

Pictured above is the HP-35, Hewlett-Packard’s first pocket calculator and the world’s first scientific pocket calculator. The HP-35 was available from 1972 to 1975, and retailed then for $395 (more ...

The first handheld graphing calculator, the Casio fx-7000G, appeared in 1985. Since then, graphing calculators have become a common – and controversial – tool for learning mathematics. These devices ...

As your kids get older, that school supply list may get shorter, but not necessarily cheaper. One item that can cause sticker shock for parents of middle and high school students is a specialized ...

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 ...

[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 ...