On 5-10-2011 17:50, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:03:07 +0100, Invisible wrote:
>
>>>>> To be fair, if there were a few more items, you'd probably need to
>>>>> write it down just to keep track of it all. But two pencil sharpeners
>>>>> which are £1.95 each shouldn't trouble anybody...
>>>>
>>>> I blame the education system. I don’t know what for but something is
>>>> to blame.
>>>
>>> Technology.  Why should one have to figure out how to do sums when
>>> everyone has a phone with a calculator built into it?
>>
>> Heh. My phone has a calculator, but it'll take you five minutes to
>> figure out which submenu it's burried under. And then to remember which
>> key you have to hold for 3 seconds to make the various mathematical
>> operators appear...
>>
>> (Then again, it'll take you 20 seconds just to cancel out of the random
>> submenu that the phone has opened in your pocket for no defined reason.)
>
> Well, that's why I put a shortcut on the screen for it. :)
>
>> It still amuses me when I see people in the lab sitting in front of a PC
>> with a 3 GHz dual-core 64-bit processor, and using a desktop calculator
>> to work out what numbers to key into the computer. ;-)
>
> It's all about familiarity.  They probably are much faster on a
> calculator keypad. :)

Ever noticed that the keyboard has a calculator side pad? That most 
calculators use this and that you can copy paste answers.
Indeed they didn't.


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