There was a brief period through the 1960s into the 1970s when the last word in electronics was the calculator. New models sold for hundreds of dollars, and owning one made you very special indeed.

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 ...

A woman standing next to a calculator taller than herself. Though we may not think about it, math and calculations permeate our everyday lives. We calculate tips at restaurants, determine how much ...

Calculators have evolved over centuries from large computing machines into today’s highly functional, pocket-sized devices capable of performing complex computations, graphing multiple lines at once ...

Many high school students need to use a graphing calculator for math and science classes and for parts of the SAT and ACT—sure, a laptop would work, but they’re not allowed because teachers and ...