Sentence examples for human calculators from inspiring English sources

A roomful of human calculators.

We are thus at bottom doing nothing more than serving as sorts of "human calculators".

They're human calculators; they know about Frida Kahlo and global positioning; and how to spell thelytokous, xerophthalmia and eleemosynary.

The people being organized in modern software projects, of course, are the programmers and engineers writing the code, not human calculators performing it.

"Most kids are human calculators," said Ruth Peters, a clinical psychologist who lives in Tampa and has written five books on child-rearing.

Almost all were human calculators in math, and I recall one of them giggling at me when I pulled out some paper to figure out a percentage/multiplication problem.

But above all he was "a great calculator – perhaps the best human calculator there's ever been," as his protege, the British mathematician Stephen Wolfram, put it.

Tip: To look like a human calculator, ask somebody to write numbers in the table, as before.

Known as "the human calculator", he told the Independent on Sunday in 1992 that he preferred working with clients who are "new money".

Fresh out of Oriel College, Oxford, with a masters in mathematics, 22-year-old Rachel Riley is the new Carol Vorderman, taking on the role of human calculator in the revamped Channel 4 afternoon quiz Countdown.

"It's not very well understood as a career but it gives you fantastic technical training and is a platform for all sorts of other jobs". The accountancy cliché of a mirthless human calculator is confounded by tax advisers for whom a gregarious nature is as vital as numeracy skills.