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[-] Steve@startrek.website -2 points 1 year ago

Thats a stupid statement in any year after the “pocket calculator” was available in the 70s

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Not really. The first ones were quite expensive, and it was uncommon to have one on your person at all times like we now do with smartphones.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago

Yes really, if your job requires lots of calculations you'd be stupid not to have one, even back when they were expensive.

Every machinist I know, even the crusty old ones, carry a calculator in their pocket. It's indispensable. Why wouldn't you carry one if you need it all the time?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure the teacher wasn't assuming that every single child in class was going to be a machinist.

In fact, most people aren't machinists.

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

And yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you'd be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don't, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Uh what, that's literally the point lol. The "you won't have a calculator" has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bro, smartphones haven't even existed for 20 years

You're talking as if everybody was carrying around pocket calculators the day they were invented

[-] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

No actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao

If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn't you go out and buy one?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Of course. But, again, that's not everyone. Not everyone went out and bought pocket calculators and carried them around everywhere.

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's even more stupid when it's the same class that required the purchase of a TI-85 to complete the course.

[-] Ferris@infosec.pub 0 points 1 year ago

how big are your pockets cmon

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

There was a period of time when I wore only carpenter jeans so I could fit my TI-83 in my pocket and I'm still not ashamed

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