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• n  an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)

• He seems to have been a born tinkerer and figurer-out of problems.
• He is a brain-truster, a figurer of acute anglesStalin's sheepdog, ready to run bark at his master's "Go!", cutting out any testy old ram that refuses to trot with the fold.
• But even Paul Bunyan himself could not do without Johnny Inkslinger, the master figurer who kept a piece of rubber as big as a barrel on the end of his nose.

• calculator
• reckoner
• estimator
• computer