Le 2011/10/05 14:18, Jim Henderson a écrit :
> 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

I've never ever seen any calculator with the 1 2 3 keys at the top. 
Phones, yes, always, calculators, never.

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