Is it permissible to take a calculator of the same type, upon losing your own, with the assumption that someone else took your calculator by mistake?
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What you did is incorrect. The calculator you took, which was a lost item, does not belong to you. You must ask your classmates about it to find its owner and return it to him, and in turn, retrieve your calculator that one of your classmates took by mistake.
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