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id everyone hear about the death last month of one Jerry Merryman<\/a>? This man was responsible for inventing the glorious hand-held calculator in 1965 during his employment at Texas Instruments. Jerry attended Texas A&M University, was married three times, and had a daughter. He retired from Texas Instruments in 1994. He passed away on February 27, 2019 in Dallas, TX from heart and kidney failure. (He’s on the left)<\/p>\n

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He probably never fully realized the impact of his invention. Although, looking back on it all perhaps, just maybe, he did. I mean he was married 3 times.<\/p>\n

What am I getting at you may ask? Well, there were millions of kids, err boys, who put his invention and hundreds of knock-offs to good use. Sure, they were used in school for math and algebra homework, but let’s be honest for a second. Every junior high and high school boy learned very important lessons with the handheld calculator.<\/p>\n

Surely I don’t have to “spell it out” for any of you, do I?<\/p>\n

You might have to turn your head a bit to get “inverted”…<\/p>\n

I give you, 58008<\/p>\n

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and then the very ambitious<\/p>\n

5318008.<\/p>\n

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Thank you very much Jerry. Thank you for a life well lived.<\/p>\n\n\n

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