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(Encyclopedia) calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator…

Brewer's: Calculate

is from the Latin calculi (pebbles), used by the Romans for counters. In the abacus, the round balls were called calculi, and it was by this instrument the Roman boys were taught to count…

Brewer's: Calculators

(The Jedediah Buxton, of Elmeton, in Derbyshire. (1705-1775.) George Bidder and Zerah Colburn (an American), who exhibited publicly. Inaudi exhibited “his astounding powers of calculatin…

Conversion Calculator

  LENGTH/DISTANCE common units: inches, meters, miles, and more metric units: centimeters, meters, kilometers, and…

Calculating Batting Average

The Question: I can't find a detailed answer regarding how to compute a batting average. What I found says, divide the number of bases by the number of times at bat. So, if…