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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

But savvy bargain hunters have found a way to effectively pick up a school-approved scientific calculator for free using a ...

Graphing calculators are important tools for students and academics. They can solve complex equations, show you the graph for additional answers, and do stuff that normal calculators can’t do. Most of ...

Review and teardown of the Casio FX260 Solar ii pocket scientific calculator. How good is a $9 scientific calculator?

[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 ...