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2. Calculator - Wikipedia

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   Calculator. An electronic pocket calculator with a seven-segment liquid-crystal display (LCD) that can perform arithmetic operations. A modern scientific calculator with an LCD. An electronic calculator is typically a portable electronic device used to perform calculations, ranging from basic arithmetic to complex mathematics .

3. Estimator - Wikipedia

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   An "estimator" or "point estimate" is a statistic (that is, a function of the data) that is used to infer the value of an unknown parameter in a statistical model. A common way of phrasing it is "the estimator is the method selected to obtain an estimate of an unknown parameter". The parameter being estimated is sometimes called the estimand.

4. Mechanical calculator - Wikipedia

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   This picture shows clockwise from top left: An Arithmometer, a Comptometer, a Dalton adding machine, a Sundstrand, and an Odhner Arithmometer. A mechanical calculator, or calculating machine, is a mechanical device used to perform the basic operations of arithmetic automatically, or (historically) a simulation such as an analog computer or a ...

5. Scientific calculator - Wikipedia

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   A scientific calculator is an electronic calculator, either desktop or handheld, designed to perform calculations using basic ( addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) and complex ( trigonometric, hyperbolic, etc.) mathematical operations and functions. They have completely replaced slide rules as well as books of mathematical tables ...

6. Point estimation - Wikipedia

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   In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value (known as a point estimate since it identifies a point in some parameter space) which is to serve as a "best guess" or "best estimate" of an unknown population parameter (for example, the population mean ). More formally, it is the application of a point ...

7. Windows Calculator - Wikipedia

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   Website. aka .ms /calculator. Windows Calculator is a software calculator developed by Microsoft and included in Windows. In its Windows 10 incarnation it has four modes: standard, scientific, programmer, and a graphing mode. The standard mode includes a number pad and buttons for performing arithmetic operations.