13.The major difference between a calculator and a computer, when performing calculations, is that a
A. Calculator is faster but needs more human assistance.
B. Calculator is slower and needs more human assistance.
C. Computer is faster but needs more human assistance.
D. Computer is slower but needs more human assistance.
C--Is not correct.
2007-11-23 19:24:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
B: a calculator is slower and needs more human assistance
Modern personal computers regularly and constantly run 'background processes' such as antivirus and software update services. These services run completely automatically and require no user input to run forever, barring hardrware failure or faulty code.
Calculators, on the other hand, rarely execute any process without explicit instruction from the user, via key press or other input. Most calculators' only automatic function is their auto-shutoff timer.
Speed is no contest. Most high-end calculators run in the 10-20MHz range, whereas most computers operate at over 100 times this rate, and with much higher capacity. The TI-89+Titanium graphing calculator may take several seconds to render a single frame of a 3D graph, whereas MATLAB on a decent computer can plot the same graph in a microsecond.
2007-11-23 20:11:14 · answer #1 · answered by MooseBoys 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You know, back in the day, a calculator was just a guy with a pencil and paper. People with a lot of math to do would hire calculators and just have a bunch of them in the back room crunching numbers by hand from 9 to 5.
So what you have here is a question of semantics. After all, what we refer to today as "calculators" and "computers" started out as the exact same advances in technology. The only distinction possible is when you assume that the distinction was there to begin with.
Were I you, I would decline to answer that question, because I wouldn't hold the asker in very high esteem at all.
2007-11-23 19:30:43 · answer #2 · answered by Mehoo 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
To be honest, Im not sure.
I much prefer my computer over a generic calculator. But a scientific calculator far out-performs any consumer computer in the field of math. A computer performs math extremely better, of course, faster... but its only good for games and internet and stuff like that. A no computer program Ive seen so far does integral calculus... but my tiny calculator does. Calcs were explicitly designed for human interaction and the performance and analysis of math. A computer is designed to manipulate arithmetically only to compute for specific purposes.
If anyone knows of a good scientific calculator that is a computer program, send me the download link
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Nice... Down thumbs for saying that consumer computers werent designed explicitly to be calculators. Wow... what retard disagrees with me?
2007-11-23 19:32:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
"13"? Is this question from an actual test? Then just give your professor the answer she's expecting so you can get the grade.
But "computer" usually means "programmable computer", which you've left off of your list. But there are "programmable calculators" as well so there's no clear dividing line between the two.
2007-11-23 19:37:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Calculator can only one task perform at a time but computer can hundred tasks perform at a time. calculator perform mathematics operation but computer perform complex operation. computer more powerful than calculator. both electronic device
2016-04-23 18:25:31 · answer #5 · answered by Umer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's a
A calculator is waaay faster at CALCULATING, it just needs a lot of input
2007-11-23 20:10:39 · answer #6 · answered by hannah_brodbeck 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The answer is not A just took the test
2015-05-14 17:12:09 · answer #7 · answered by domonique 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certainly A or B.
Certainly B or D.
Hence B.
2007-11-23 19:35:06 · answer #8 · answered by Curt Monash 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋