Comment on Calculatable

themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So you’re saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?

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  • tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game. You always restart from the beginning.

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    • teft@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Calculators are similar to a Dark Souls game.

      If that were true then mashing buttons on your calculator would prevent any inputs from being processed for a few seconds.

      Fromsoft believes in punishing button-mashers.

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      • Xanis@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Unless it’s Dark Souls 2 wherein you mash a couple buttons after being knocked down or rolling and manage to queue up your binoculars perfectly. This, in turn, allows you to get a really splendid look at your enemy’s grimacing face as he shoves a rather vicious and often seriously pointy metal object up your ass. All the while you’re frantically trying to roll away and accidentally toss back a flask. This manages to save you from an untimely demise until you notice that you backed up a little too much and that dude waiting to ambush took one last drag from his cigarette, flicked it away, and proceeded to club your head like he was Babe Ruth after a particularly hearty breakfast.

        Then on the way back to your souls some asshole named “Forsworn” gets in your way. God only knows what his problem is.

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      • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That explains so much…

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    • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      …and may end with a shattered calculator.

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• RustyNova@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And in my mind “CE” is “Clear everything”. I’m keeping OP’s method

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• Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Problem is on some calculators C is clear all and CE is clear entry, on some C is clear entry and AC is clear all, and some have a C/AC or CE/C button where it’s press once to clear entry and press twice to clear all.

  So it’s safest to mash unless you really know your calculator, because the industry can’t get its shit together, and that’s the sole reason it died (I’m assuming.)

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  • oo1@lemmings.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks I was looking at the answer and thinking it didn’t fit my memory. i’m sure most of mine were ACs. TBF with things like VPAM coming in the late 90s, you did have backspace and all sorts of stuff like that.

    I still remember doing linear regression in a stats exam on i think a casio fx-115W something like that . Excellent calculator - but just no, it was time for some things to be on a real computer.

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• youstolemyname@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Should be replaced with a backspace icon and a trash can icon

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• geogle@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s why it never worked for me. I assumed CE was Clear Everything.

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  • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh my God. Me too!

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    • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We three were on the same page.

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You mean CE doesnt stand for “clear everything”? And here I thought more letters meant more clearing.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  But sometimes CE is “Clear Everything” and it works exactly the opposite way.

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• rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And it all depends on the calculator. The one right next to me only has a CE button and it acts as a C button. So not even the people making them know what they do sometimes.

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• skyin7@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This guy calculates.

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• imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Shit. I thought it was clear and clear everything. I guess this is why I also push both buttons rapidly and make sure to just retype everything

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