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08-10-2018, 10:38 PM
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Before electronic calculators were commonplace, if you needed a handheld calculation machine for multiplication, etc. you used a Curta.
See Numberphile cover one of the originals. And last year Adam Savage bought a 3D printed replica, but at 3X size.
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