I'm a mathematical genius
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
Clickety[^] I often to paper calculations, just to keep my hand in, so to speak. When I'm developing games, especially, some of the trig I actually enjoy working out on paper much more than just getting the answer from some electronic medium.
Chris Maunder wrote:
Our kids are screwed.
Only if the power goes out
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Pah! Mathematics is derived from the Arithmetic base class!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Hah! :laugh:
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Could be. (I did it in my head, and got it right - but I checked it on a calculator! :laugh: ) In the days before barcoded products, I used to add up the prices in my trolley / basket while bored waiting at the checkout, and hand over the exact amount. Even then, I got some strange looks from checkout girls (for they were all females on the checkout in those days) who needed the machine to tell them how much change to give. :sigh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
Sounds like you and my Mom both read the same How to Troll Cashiers book. Her favorite trick when she has a new one is to go "$123" before they scan the first item. Hers is a running total as she fills the cart.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
Dude I have one better for you.. how much time do you work on a PC?... had you ever tried to write a small letter... by hand!!! that's almost impossible, my hand start to hurt after the 4 or 5 first words... and forget about the lack of auto-correct!!
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
My alarm clock app requires me to do some simple arithmetic to turn off the buzzer. It tends to make me more alert than just hitting a button.
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I almost wrote an app to work it out. Almost.
cheers Chris Maunder
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
After progressing from use of tools to engineering, I guess that in Darwinian terms you could say that homo sapiens sapiens has become a mathematical genus. It appears that we are about to be superseded by the boolean genus, however. Wait - did I miss something?
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Eddy Vluggen wrote:
You hire something that is not too bad to look at
He did say it was Walmart. They do not have that requirement. :^)
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote:
Our kids are screwed
Don't think of them as "our kids", think of them as the future coders of self-driving cars and airplane design software. They're not screwed, we are.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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So... did you calculate
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40or(371.52 - 60.41) - 64.40?There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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Dude I have one better for you.. how much time do you work on a PC?... had you ever tried to write a small letter... by hand!!! that's almost impossible, my hand start to hurt after the 4 or 5 first words... and forget about the lack of auto-correct!!
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At least that's how I felt. I had to perform
371.52 - 60.41 - 64.40. I have a whopping headache so didn't feel like doing it in my head, so I did it old school. With pen and paper. I'm talking without a calculator. I'm not making this up. And I ended up with the right answer. First. Time. Without cheating. The thing that shocked me the most is just how long it's been since I've actually used my brain to work out something as trivial as subtraction. It's actually a little scary. Our kids are screwed.cheers Chris Maunder
This morning. Home improvement store. Checkout. Price plus tax $18.02. I paid cash with a $20 bill and wait, I have two pennies in my pocket. I hoped I get two dollar bills back. No, I got one dollar bill, 98 cents in coins plus my additional 2 pennies back. Asking her why she entered $20 instead of $20.02 for the amount rendered, she responded she was never taught to enter such odd amounts. I gave her all the coins back asking for a dollar bill. She put it on the counter and started counting them. It took her two attempts to find out that it was a dollar. No child left behind!
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This morning. Home improvement store. Checkout. Price plus tax $18.02. I paid cash with a $20 bill and wait, I have two pennies in my pocket. I hoped I get two dollar bills back. No, I got one dollar bill, 98 cents in coins plus my additional 2 pennies back. Asking her why she entered $20 instead of $20.02 for the amount rendered, she responded she was never taught to enter such odd amounts. I gave her all the coins back asking for a dollar bill. She put it on the counter and started counting them. It took her two attempts to find out that it was a dollar. No child left behind!
Yet another sad example of our current school curriculum. I've also had store clerks refuse to take payment with a dollar coin. The prevailing opinion was that it could not be money. Come to think of it, the dollar coin does look like a video arcade token. Where to get a dollar coin? Buy stamps from a post office vending machine. The machine gives them for change.
Fletcher Glenn
