Please, try a divide by zero! Pleeeeeease! What would happen? What if Katherine Johnson did that in the movie Hidden Figures (this is the Friden that sits on her desk)? Would it catch fire? Would the rocket trajectory go to infinity? Now you are finally going to find out. Stick to the end for a little extra, a scene from another great movie that stars the Friden. This is a Friden STW 10 from 1956.

Friden Calculator Playlist:    • Friden STW 10 Mechanical Calculator  

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Calculator plays the Friden March and does 0/0
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Friden SWT-10 full demo video including square roots:
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Restoration of this machine:
   • Restoring a 1956 Friden STW 10 Mechan...  

00:00 Intro
00:53 Machine setup
01:37 Division by zero
02:19 How division works: calculating pi
03:47 Division slo-mo
04:33 Redo div by 0 with explanation
05:27 Scene from the Apartment movie with hundreds of Fridens

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