Constants, rather than being stored in the calculator, were printed under the screen.
Cameras, watches, calculators and printed books are just a few of the once-familiar objects that are now dwindling, because their functions can be executed as efficiently, sometimes more so, by the applications on cellphones and computers, which can also be less damaging in environmental terms.
Providing the strongest work in the show, Fred Tomaselli's Untitled 2008, uses what appears to be a roll of calculator paper to print out the pictures and stats of U.S. soldiers who died in the Iraq war from CNN's website.
The GPs were also instructed how to use the SCORE calculator of global CVR (print version), and were demonstrated the patient information leaflet.
His wife's coded messages are even more obscure: "Julia liked printing calculators – the Jews of the office store, having stubbornly out-survived so many more promising business machines – and while the kids assembled school supplies, she would tap out feet of random numbers.
Furthermore, the GPs were instructed how to use the SCORE calculator of global cardiovascular risk (print version, included in the manual), and additional patient information sheets.
Four constants are printed on the calculator case for easy reference.
"Tell your friends and neighbors to use the calculator to make sure you look at the fine print -- the fine print -- before people buy into a program that's going to mean more of the same," Mr. Bush said.
But as this summer travel season approaches, anyone hoping to use miles to upgrade to business class to Europe, say, should first read the fine print — and then take out the calculator.
I also remember my mother tapping numbers into her desk calculator, and the "chit chit chit" of it printing the results on ticker tape.
