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Submitted ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    CE is Clear Entry. If you want to hit 2 x 4, but accidentally press 2 x 44, you can press the CE button before pressing = to clear the 44 but not the “2 x” part.

    C will clear all of it so you can start over at the beginning.

    Pressing CE twice may or may not clear entries in reverse order, depending on you calculator model.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • tpihkal@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • RustyNova@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • youstolemyname@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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    • geogle@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh my God. Me too!

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    • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This guy calculates.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Calculators just have a bad user interface in general. It’s pretty amazing that the UI was established in 1970 and was never changed after that.

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    • red_pigeon@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Curious to know why ? Basic functionality seems very obvious and friendly to me.

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      • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨12⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        If there is any nuance beyond a 4-function calculator with a single clear button, any nuance or deviation from any kind of standard will not be clearly explained.

        There’s never a backspace key, only two “clear” buttons that have nuance between them and little to no description as to which does what.

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  • WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Press both simultaneously, while twisting the joystick in a “C” motion, to launch a fireball.

    Image

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    • jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It’s amazing how much better this game looks than a bunch of games that came out years after it.

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    • shasta@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s ki, not fire. 🤓

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      • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There sure is a lot of overlap with people criticizing the technical interface of a calculator and nerds, wonder why that is? Oh well glad I’m not one of those nerds, now back to the clear button being so obtuse.

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  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s solar powered so I just wait for night time to clear it then do the next problem in the morning

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    • pretzelz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mate, you can just put your finger over the solar panel until it slowly gets strangled

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      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        edging the calcy

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      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Image

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    • reev@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What are you, my local DMV?

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    • dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I discovered that hitting something like C, CE and 0 simultaneously for some reason worked as an instant power off for my school calculator. Do calculators have such hidden off-buttons? Because I have discovered other calculators with other combinations.

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      • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        There’s actually a neat reason for this! The way that simple keys work, like those in a calculator, is by connecting a circuit and letting a small amount of voltage through. This is usually fine because the keypad is broken up into different rollover zones, which is how multi-key input works. But if you find and press keys that are all in the same zone, their voltages add up and can actually overwhelm the little cpu in there. Really old calculators were really easy to break because designers never thought users would need to press keys like division, multiplication, subtract, add, square and square root all at once, which as you can imagine, caused a massive power spike.

        Now, is any of this true? I have no idea dude, you’re calculator was probably fucking haunted or something. I’d have taken that thing to a seance with a ouija board immediately.

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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Same energy as me holding Ctrl and pressing S seven times just to make sure.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think anyone’s ever been punished for saving twice. Right?

      This is where people give me examples where people have been prove me wrong. Please I want to know the sadness of others sadness give give sadness. Give give now sadness give

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      • AmbientChaos@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Once I was working on some music and got so excited about how it turned I hit ctrl S like 5 times, it corrupted the project and I lost it 😭

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  • kopasz7@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Software engineer: just turn it off and on again.

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    • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
      docker system prune -a
docker compose up —build
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      • JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        The “nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure” approach.

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  • JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I am using and loving Solve by Pomegranate Apps. Multiple workspaces and advanced functions available a swipe away. It doesn’t seem to be available anymore, and it looked like the company was hitting hard times when they dumped things like Trump quotes and other shit apps into the store. So, apprehensive to recommend because of weirdness but best calculator ever.

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    • petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My favorite was MathAlly. I still have it through some built-in android backwards compatibility emulator, but once it goes, it goes. They haven’t been on the app store for years.

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  • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Clearly nobody here does any serious calculator based math

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I mostly use matlab

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    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Let’s be honest, if you are doing serious math, you’ll have a graphing calculator to do way more stuff, and the controls are much more like a mini computer (with a backspace key, and being able to delete individual lines of history, or all of the history with menus)

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      • muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not if ur university has dumb rules about what calculator u can us in exams.

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      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        RPN gang!

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    • xorollo@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Use R

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      • kjaeselrek@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        neve!

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    • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or uses a serious calculator.

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  • Sequentialsilence@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    C = clear CE = clear everything

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    • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I thought it was the other way around and CE was clear entry, C was clear.

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      • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        C = Cthulhu

        CE = Cthulhu Evermore

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      • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I am fairly confident it was a joke.

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      • Skanky@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s only of you have it set to Wumbo

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    • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is that true though? We’ll never know. One of the great mysteries

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    • jdnewmil@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Clear and Clear Entry.

      The better option is to use an RPN calculator as Hewlett-Packard used to make. Then the back arrow button just eliminates one digit at a time.

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    • Cornflake@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s how it works on the adding machine I use at work. That might not be universal, but if I input something wrong I press C and retype it, meanwhile if I need to reset it all I press CE.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So it’s not just me who’s wrong! Good good. See you in math hell

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    huhuhuhh, i do thaaat.

    I actually did laugh out loud at this though.

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  • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    C or AC = clear all CE = clear entry

    That said, there are variations based on brand and model.

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just noticed I don’t have a hardware calculator…

    And the software one I remember about is translated.

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do it a bunch of times for the same reason I also CTRL+C a bunch of times.

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