You have to earn your calculator
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Re:You have to earn your calculator
by DamonHD on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:58AM
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Yep, my dad wouldn't let me get my first handheld (LED display!) calculator ~50Y ago until I could prove to him that I didn't need it for simple things such as multiplications up to 12... (Yes, 12, since we still had/have feet and inches for example...)
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Re:You have to earn your calculator
by karmakaze on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @12:50PM
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Because of computers/hex I can also do 16 (but forget about 176 :shrug:).
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