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Old 06-16-2019, 05:41 PM   #90
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Default Re: Approaching TL9?

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Originally Posted by maximara View Post

Pocket calculators had been around since the 1970s with improvements making them totally affordable from 1976 on. Heck, the HP-12C from 1981 is still being made today.
When I was in Six Grade Pocket Calculators were being advertised in Popular Science Magazine for 600 dollars. I saw a better calculator for 3.50 in Dollar General. The cheap calculator had a memory that could store ten different numbers, sign, cosign, tangent, cotagent, and keys that let you choose what power or root you wanted.
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