Calculation
- Mathematical expression
- Expression, evaluation
- Bracket
- Term (mathematics)
- S-expression, M-expression
- Four fours
- Lookup table, mathematical table, multiplication table
- Calculator
- Counting rods
- Abacus, Chinese abacus, Roman abacus
- Torquetum
- Napier's bones, rabdology
- Pascal's calculator
- Slide rule
- Common logarithm
- Generating trigonometric tables
- Difference engine
- Analytical engine
- Ada Byron's notes on the analytical engine
- Adding machine
- Mechanical calculator
- Comptometer
- Differential analyser
- Curta calculator
- History of computers
- Order of operations, infix notation, reverse Polish notation
- Multiplication algorithm
- Peasant multiplication
- Division by two
- Exponentiating by squaring
- Addition chain
- Scholz conjecture
- Presburger arithmetic
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