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June 1972, Article 1

The 'Powerful Pocketful': an Electronic Calculator Challenges the Slide Rule

This nine-ounce battery-powered scientific calculator, small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, has logarithmic, trigonometric, and exponential functions and answers to 10 significant digits.

by Thomas M. Whitney, France Rode, and Chung C. Tung


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