Sentence examples for calculating devices and from inspiring English sources

Peuerbach composed other treatises, most still in manuscript, devoted to elementary arithmetic, sine tables, calculating devices, and the construction of astronomical instruments (gnomons, astrolabes, and quadrants).

They are indispensable calculating devices and approximations that enable the economist to make predictions about markets, industries and economies the way they enable physicists to predict eclipses and tides, or prevent bridge collapses and power failures.

The function of these provisos means that instrumentalist constructions of scientific theories as mere calculating devices and programs for the elimination of theoretical language by reduction to observational language alone are misguided and cannot be sustained.

Moore's Law took hold, and calculating devices started getting twice as fast every 12-18 months. 12-18 months

But what captivates the first-time visitor immediately is the living museum of calculating devices on display throughout the building.

Calculating devices took a different turn when John Napier, a Scottish mathematician, published his discovery of logarithms in 1614.

Analog calculating devices based on Napier's logarithms representing digital values with analogous physical lengths—soon appeared.

Between 1642 and 1644, Pascal invented a pioneering early calculating device for his tax-collector father.

Abacus, plural abaci or abacuses, calculating device, probably of Babylonian origin, that was long important in commerce.

The S-parameters help in calculating device stability by determining a term called the Rollett Stability Factor K.

Theoretical formulations are presented to describe the transformations and full-wave simulations are performed to verify the functionality of the calculated devices.