A New Calculator and Why it is Necessary¶
Thimbleby, H. (1995). A New Calculator and Why it is Necessary. The Computer Journal.
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- Formula Calculator
- The user therefore helps schedule the operations, may have to rearrange a written formula, and may use memory registers to preserve intermediate values
This sourceThimbleby's design critique of conventional calculators, which argues that immediate execution makes the user, not the machine, work out how a calculation must be expressed and ordered; the accessible abstract carries the scheduling and rearranging burden, not the memory-register detail.
- The user therefore helps schedule the operations, may have to rearrange a written formula, and may use memory registers to preserve intermediate values
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