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You have to earn your calculator (matthiasplappert.com)
9 points by sherlock_h 20 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


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...)


Because of computers/hex I can also do 16 (but forget about 176 :shrug:).




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