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A UK university was fine £400,000 after 2 students were accidentally given a lethal dose of caffeine during a scientific experiment. Because of a misplaced decimal point on the phone used to calculate the caffeine dosage, they received 30g instead of the planned 0.3g. The lethal dose is 18g.

1974. After the first pocket scientific calculator (Hp 35), that had taken two years, 20 engineers, and a million dollars; Sinclair did a similar job with one programmer and a memory of 320 instructions.

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1. When the first scientific calculator, the HP-35 came out in 1971 it cost $395 or $2,248 in today's dollars.

2. There's no reliable scientific way to calculate the relationship between human and cat years, but it's generally agreed that the first two years of a cat's life are roughly equal to the first 25 of a human's, and after this, each additional year is around four 'cat years'.

3. In 2006, Scientific American published an issue that included blueprints on how to make a do it yourself paper Slide Rule calculator

4. Peter Rogerson, a professor of geography at the University at Buffalo in New York, used new scientific methods to calculate the "geographic center" of the North American continent: he found that it was in Center, ND.

5. To raise capital for their new company, Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen van and Steve Wozniak sold his Hewlett-Packard scientific calculator for $500.

6. Logarithms and exponential notation made calculations much quicker and was important to scientific advances in astronomy, and physics.

7. The Scientific Calculator built on Minecraft was coded by a then 16-year-old Redditor in just 1 week - and he never really got credit for it on Reddit.

8. By simply rotating your phone with its calculator app on, it becomes a scientific calculator.

9. Microsoft Windows 10 "Standard" calculator doesn't follow the order of operations. To actually do math correctly, you should use "Scientific"

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Science-based digital currencies exist, where the mining process is based on doing calculations for various volunteer distributed computing scientific projects.