The term ‘computer music’ was itself a problem: should it be translated as ‘electronic brain music’ or ‘calculator music’?
Being infallible utility calculators, the citizens and judges in both societies always know what the law requires.
In each quadrat, spatial coordinates of the trees were determined from the south-east corner using an ultrasonic distance calculator.
A dozen examples were worked out on a simple desk calculator to exhibit the influence of some of these parameters.
In the presence of a calculator, the person may enter numbers and press the appropriate key.
Figure 13.1 uses a calculator analogy to describe how one characterizable matrix can be constructed from another.
The calculator interprets a lambda-like formula specifying image transformations using operations such as filtering, superposition, and scaling.
Such a characterization of the machine is significantly different from presenting it as a large calculator or an electronic mathematician.
When it comes to global environmental change, utilitarians should generally be inflexible, virtuous greens, but in most other domains they should be flexible calculators.
As shown by the ‘nestedness temperature calculator‘ analysis, variation in amphibian species richness as a function of habitat disturbance was not haphazard.
Examples include extreme fascinations with electricity pylons, burglar alarms, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, video players, calculators, computers, trains, planes, and clocks.
Each subject had a 10×10 grid calculator on the computer screen to assist him or her in calculating profits.
Besides various other numeric and trigonometric operations, calculators typically have a memory cell storing a single number.
This was checked (using a gestation calculator) with the date of birth and the date she said her last monthly period started.
Pension calculators frame retirement provision in terms of ‘ required gross income in today’s dollars’.
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