From: Nemo <cym224@gmail.com>
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:07:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzxNcsGAu50+SFVxbAnGDDxOwDYsy6XC01pefwumpZdtMw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200320140308.4FBBB18C073@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
On 20/03/2020, Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> > From: Paul Guertin
>
> > I teach math in college ... Sometimes, during an exam, a student who
> > forgot to bring their calculator will ask if they can borrow mine I
> > always say "sure, but you'll regret it" and hand them the calculator
> > After wasting one or two minutes, they give it back
>
> [,,,]
> [...] and any reasonably intelligent high-schooler should get it
> extremely quickly; just tell them it's just a representational thing,
> number number operator instead of number operator number.
A former colleague -- electronics engineer, to boot -- told me that he
refuses to use RPN calculators because one will not always be
available and he does not want to become "dependent" on it.
Offsetting that, my wife -- who does not work in a technical field --
swears by her 32S (and still has her 35 somewhere). I have my
caculators on my Macs all set to RPN.
Perhaps a bit mean of me, but when people were befuddled, I used to
say that my calculators used "natural" input.
N.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-20 15:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-20 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-20 14:08 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 14:52 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-20 14:58 ` Dagobert Michelsen
2020-03-20 15:05 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 22:09 ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-20 15:03 ` Gregg Levine
2020-03-20 15:05 ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-20 22:06 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21 4:59 ` Wesley Parish
2020-03-20 21:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-22 18:05 ` Tony Finch
2020-03-20 15:07 ` Nemo [this message]
2020-03-20 19:03 ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-20 16:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-09-13 15:44 ` Juergen Nickelsen
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-03-21 1:12 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-19 20:57 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-19 21:18 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-20 7:14 ` arnold
2020-03-20 7:49 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-03-20 8:18 ` arnold
2020-03-13 23:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-14 0:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 11:30 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-03-14 12:24 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 22:01 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-15 22:14 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-15 23:34 ` Warner Losh
2020-03-16 2:45 ` Anthony Martin
2020-03-15 22:30 ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 23:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-16 0:56 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-20 23:20 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 23:35 ` Toby Thain
2020-03-21 0:34 ` Rob Pike
2020-03-17 13:03 ` ca6c
2020-03-17 13:30 ` Andy Kosela
2020-03-17 14:53 ` Cág
2020-03-17 14:57 ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-17 14:59 ` Arrigo Triulzi
2020-03-17 15:40 ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-17 22:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18 0:17 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-18 3:28 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18 8:40 ` arnold
2020-03-19 12:26 ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-19 21:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 11:48 ` paul
2020-03-20 15:40 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 16:40 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-20 17:23 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 18:43 ` Rich Morin
2020-03-19 20:01 ` Tomasz Rola
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