On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 18:42:47 +0200, andrel wrote:

> 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? 

Not on my laptop.  And compared to a calculator, the numeric keypad's 
numbers are reversed (1-3 at the bottom rather than at the top).

> That most
> calculators use this and that you can copy paste answers. Indeed they
> didn't.

Sure, there are benefits.  I'd have to be stupid not to know *that*.

Jim

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