On Wed, 22 Sept 2021 at 00:01, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The TI people were selling their chip as a simple four operation > calculator. Here is what the Sinclair people did with it: > > http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html And that's where the "world's first" comes from: ".. the world's first single-chip scientific calculator," - i.e. not the first pocket calculator, of course. Just the first single-chip scientific calculator, or at least the first low-priced one (and the smallest one too, at the time).