Sentence examples for devices for calculation from inspiring English sources

While Bush was working on analog computing at MIT, across town Harvard professor Howard Aiken was working with digital devices for calculation.

While Vannevar Bush was working on analog computing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MITT), across town Harvard University professor Howard Aiken was working with digital devices for calculation.

Napier then describes the second mechanical device for calculation, a forerunner of the modern calculator that he named promptuary or "place where things are stored ready for use". The third device, similar to a chessboard, allowed calculations to be performed by moving counters around the squares.

Hypothetically, the success of the Diabeo system is because of its two components: first, a real-time device for calculation of the insulin dose; and second, data transmission allowing telemonitoring and iterative short teleconsultations.

The Ptolemaic system was intended as a device for making calculations, not as a picture of the universe.

A well-qualified nuclear database and validated computational tools are required in the nuclear design of fusion devices for reliable neutronics and activation calculations with the associated uncertainties.

See [22] for calculation of %−ΔcGI.

See Methods for calculation.

These will be used for calculation examples.

The logarithmic slide rule is a compact device for rapidly performing calculations with limited accuracy.

In 1620 Edmund Gunter, the English mathematician who coined the terms cosine and cotangent, built a device for performing navigational calculations: the Gunter scale, or, as navigators simply called it, the gunter.