Despite years of experience, I still enjoy doing computations and
turning the calculator upside down to spell 80081E5. I suppose your
inner child never *really* grows up.
My parents gave all the neices and nephews a CASIO calculator one christmas. A neice showed me hers AND IT HAD A SQUARE ROOT KEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My 79 buck 4 banger didn't do square roots so I went to the mall and bought on
of those.
Can't remember the Modle Number, couldn't find it in this room, it is probably
downstairs.
The other keys... log, sin, cos, and tan... I know what those mean but have no idea why I'd ever need them. :D
...I hate having to look for a calculator app on my desktop, and clicking
buttons with a mouse feels *wrong*.
I once asked a maths teacher when his skills had ever come in handy "in real life". He told me that he once had to work out how much corrugated roofing would be needed to cover an outside storage area and so, rather than just measuring the floor and adding a bit, he did some proper triangle geometry.
"Did it work?"
"It came out the same as if I'd just measured the floor and added a bit"
LOL, so it came out better for him that it probably would have for me, especially if I had tried "proper geometry!" :D
Mike Powell wrote to ED VANCE <=-
The fx-82B I mentioned in a previous post has one of those, and it apparently doubles as a squaring key. I probably have used that square root key some, but not in a long time.
The other keys... log, sin, cos, and tan... I know what those mean but have no idea why I'd ever need them. :D
Bob Worm wrote to Mike Powell <=-
I once asked a maths teacher when his skills had ever come in handy "in real life". He told me that he once had to work out how much corrugated roofing would be needed to cover an outside storage area and so, rather than just measuring the floor and adding a bit, he did some proper triangle geometry.
The other keys... log, sin, cos, and tan... I know what those mean but have no idea why I'd ever need them. :D
When it came to putting the fence up I still found myself one post short because, like a dingbat, I failed to factor in that the fence has a gap in it to access some steps. So instead of n+1 posts I really needed n+2...Di
When I called up the fencing supplier to order another post mount she said
you forget to add one?'... 'No, but... yes'.
Most of what I use the calculator on my desk for it converting decimal
to hex and vice versa. Fidonet technology, when passing files back and
forth, uses the hex representation of the decimal network and node
number for file names, and figuring out which file goes to who can be
tricky.
Although, Synchronet's echocfg utility, where you define nodes, now
displays the net/node number in hex. Handy!
The fx-82B I mentioned in a previous post has one of those, and it
apparently doubles as a squaring key. I probably have used that square
root key some, but not in a long time.
The other keys... log, sin, cos, and tan... I know what those mean but have no idea why I'd ever need them. :D
Mike
* SLMR 2.1a * Forget 0 to 60. It's 95 to 55 that counts!
Mike Powell wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-
That has always frustrated me because we dealt with hex at work all the time, and the hex values I see on an FTN do *not* equal what we used at work. Granted, ours were *usually* EBCDIC but even the ASCII values
are not "right."
"I know what binary is. Jesus Christ! I memorized the hexadecimal
times tables when I was 14 writing machine code, okay? Ask me what 9
times F is. It's fleventy-five. I don't need you telling me what binary
is"
Erlich Bachman, from "Silicon Valley"
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