Pocket calculator
- ID-nummer
- 2021.001.001
- Titel
- Pocket calculator
- Objektkategori
- Vetenskapliga instrument, material & modeller
- Publik beskrivning
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The auction formats developed by Robert B. Wilson required advanced calculations. In the 1980s, he used this Hewlett-Packard hand-held electronic calculator frequently when consulting with oil companies about bidding in auctions for rights to off-shore exploration of tracts. The calculator is unusual in that it uses "reverse Polish notation" for its programs. Though the battery may be weak, it still works and probably still has Wilson's programs for computing optimal bids and other aspects of strategy in its memory.
Robert B. Wilson donated the pocket calculator to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2021. - Pristagare
- Robert Wilson
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