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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Softcover Marchant Calculating Machine Company trade catalogue. Rubber stamped "Catalogue Library Reference Jan 21 1937" on front cover. About 8.5 x 5.5 (16.5 x 11 inches unfolded). In very good condition. Opens to a list of positive attributes of the Marchant company. Unfolds into a one page poster on The New Marchant All-Electric Calculator. Portrays a color illustration with arrows pointing to different parts of the calculator with boxes explaining the advantages. Covers the speed, carriage, smoothness, electric shift, appearance, true figures, and more. Serves as an interesting advertisement for the Marchant All-Electric Calculator.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Title from front cover: From OG . to GOOGOL * If you can't wait to find out what a Googol is, turn to next page by Marchant Calculating Machine Company. A googol is the large number 10100. In decimal notation, it is written as the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. The name googol and googolplex were originally coined by Milton Sirotta, nephew of Edward Kasner a famous American mathematician. During a name brainstorming session, the founders of Google, not realizing googol was spelled with an ol at the end, searched the Internet to see if the domain of google was available. The rest is history. Stapled wraps, text in black, illustrations and headings in a reddish-brown. 16 pp including covers. A brief introduction to calculating methods used over the years and to Marchant calculators. book.

Marchant Calculating Machine Company. Here is the calculator you have been waiting for. Emeryville, Calif.: Marchant Calculating Machine Company, n.d. [ca. 1920]. Unbound single sheet, folded. VG. [2]pp. Text illustrations. 307 x 204 mm. A circular advertising the Pony Marchant Calculator, a manually operated desktop machine for multiplication and division manufactured in the San Francisco Bay Area. Origins of Cyberspace 336. .