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Comment on calculatormac: calculators made personal again by MadeInFinland44

MadeInFinland44 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:35:21 +0000

This is weird.

Comment on calculatormac: calculators made personal again by machiner6

machiner6 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:34:12 +0000

yeah, KW made robot mannequins of themselves for “We are the Robots”. Looks pretty impressive.

Comment on calculatormac: calculators made personal again by † ♥Jesus Blood Never Fails Me

† ♥Jesus Blood Never Fails Me — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:51:38 +0000

A calculator is really just a very simple version of your computer.
It works by "on/off" if electricity is passing it is "on" . There are a bunch of complex circuits inside (creating a program), and if electricity passing through that circuit to a "gate" then that gate is "on."
It works by binary code –> on/off. e.g. 11000111101010111001
That is binary code.

Using this binary code each # has it's own binary code sequence.
example: 6 decimal= 110 binary

Your calculator is programmed to add and subtract. using these gates.
Example using the "And Gate"
If 4 and + is pressed then send signal to next gate.

Your calculator stores the code in memory (bits) 8 bits = 1 Byte
1000 000 Bytes = 1 MegaByte (MB)
1 000 000 MB = 1 GigaByte (GB) — looking familiar? (Ok, calculator memory not as big as 1 GB, that's for computers, but you understand).

so, every code in your computer/calculator is stored in these bits.
That's why if you spill liquid inside, it shortcircuits the circuit (damaging it- the connections break apart) and breaks a connection in the programming) ruining your calculator.

OK, I know I explained really badly, but it's the best I could do. I took a course in computer engineering 2 years ago, so I vagely remember the very specific details, I only remember the general stuff. People write books about this, and it's hard to explain in a few small paragraphs. You can go to google and type "how calculators work" and try researching this yourself.

Comment on calculatormac: calculators made personal again by Hi!

Hi! — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:27:05 +0000

You need to check if it needs a cable or if it has an infrared sensor and your computer would need to have one as well.

I suggest that you take a read at its instructions because you may need to buy a cable if it is possible to do what you want to.

Comment on calculatormac: calculators made personal again by Ashanza

Ashanza — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:17:30 +0000

You can use a Taylor series or a table of values

For example for sine for values close to 0 rad:

sin x = x – x^3/3! + x^5/5! – x^7/7! … you can add more terms as necessary