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I <3 my adding machine

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Casio DL-250LA, don't you ever leave me

Screw you excel! You don't have that satisfying "OMG I'm wasting natural resources" kind of feel everytime I hit *

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srsly, I know I'm not the only finance/accounting person that uses one of these things.
 
The "emergncy backup system" on my computer desk is an old adding machine with a hand-crank on the side and paper tape.

Seriously, I still keep in my car's glove compartment a circular slide rule that I use to calculate and record gas mileage at every fill-up.

Anyone else notice that social norms have changed so much now that few people can do simple math, on paper or in their heads? So many times at a checkout counter I find the clerk cannot do change - he / she can only read the computer terminal screen and count out whatever it says. If it's wrong for whatever reason (they may not even realize it), major catastrophe!
 
Originally posted by: Paperdoc
The "emergncy backup system" on my computer desk is an old adding machine with a hand-crank on the side and paper tape.

Seriously, I still keep in my car's glove compartment a circular slide rule that I use to calculate and record gas mileage at every fill-up.

Anyone else notice that social norms have changed so much now that few people can do simple math, on paper or in their heads? So many times at a checkout counter I find the clerk cannot do change - he / she can only read the computer terminal screen and count out whatever it says. If it's wrong for whatever reason (they may not even realize it), major catastrophe!
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yup, you should be able to do it in your head first so that you understand the underlying principles and mechanics of whatever you're doing. It's why my calc teacher in high school made us do everything on paper, and made sure we knew how to do it before letting us use calculators.
 
Originally posted by: Paperdoc
The "emergncy backup system" on my computer desk is an old adding machine with a hand-crank on the side and paper tape.

Seriously, I still keep in my car's glove compartment a circular slide rule that I use to calculate and record gas mileage at every fill-up.

Anyone else notice that social norms have changed so much now that few people can do simple math, on paper or in their heads? So many times at a checkout counter I find the clerk cannot do change - he / she can only read the computer terminal screen and count out whatever it says. If it's wrong for whatever reason (they may not even realize it), major catastrophe!
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Yeah, we were in the checkout the other day, and I was loading up the conveyor belt not really listening to what the cashier and my wife were saying, but I overheard something about splitting 35 in half, and instinctively divided it in my head. Then after she said she doesn't even know what that would be, I told her and she was surprised I'd done it that quickly...
 
Originally posted by: FallenHero
You aren't a real man until you do all your math on this
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That makes you a boy. If you can do the abacus calculation in your head, then you are a man.


And I am not kidding, the higher levels of abacus skill require no physical abacus, but the kids still move the beads in the air.
 
Originally posted by: Paperdoc
The "emergncy backup system" on my computer desk is an old adding machine with a hand-crank on the side and paper tape.

Seriously, I still keep in my car's glove compartment a circular slide rule that I use to calculate and record gas mileage at every fill-up.

Anyone else notice that social norms have changed so much now that few people can do simple math, on paper or in their heads? So many times at a checkout counter I find the clerk cannot do change - he / she can only read the computer terminal screen and count out whatever it says. If it's wrong for whatever reason (they may not even realize it), major catastrophe!
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my math teachers were shitty and ive only recently gone back to school. i can do intro level algebra at best.

honestly, im embarrassed by it, despite very rarely even needing anything else, and plan on taking a higher course than required one semester in order to "catch up" a little
 
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