I mean, what is an average person going to use a phone calculator for? Adding up a shopping grocery list as it comes along? They sure as hell aren't going to be solving slightly more involved functions to be sure.
I'm pretty sure if you are using a phone to help you with advanced math, and aren't using a service like Wolfram Alpha or a specifically-tuned calculating app, you're just asking for that sort of failure.
Wolfram Alpha says the answer is 9.
If you are using a phone to help with advanced math, you are asking for trouble.
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If I had USD 1 for every time I had to bail a person out because the were trying to use %Tool% to try to do %Task Tool was in no way set up to do% and they were getting problems, I could fund QQ until Judgement Day
That sounds like a general repair-person and maintenance-person problem; people are stupid and/or impatient. If you are in such a position, you have my respect and condolences.
What bullshit this is. Metric isn't a superior system, it just has easier conversion points for the human brain. We use a mathematically more difficult (for humans) system, not an inferior system.
The only part of it that's wrong is the implication that any other public school system on earth isn't at least equally fucked. Public education is a trainwreck no matter where you look.
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I was speaking less in the superiority sense than the idea that the system is very widely adopted as the main standard, and the US is the one major country still using an alternate measurement system consistently. More nationalism, really.
Scientific calculators are an invention of the sixties I cannot fathom how that the phone calculator can in fact be that wrong it boggles the mind boggles I say
Your lack of self-awareness is concerning.
More of a "popular does not mean good" coupled with "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
Only if thumb width was standardized.
Rough estimates are inefficient.
That also said, the Metric System is mainly a headache in the USA because we have adopted it piecemeal, when that really doesn't help for clarity. The Metric System has well-defined measurements for basically everything, while the measures for many things in the Imperial system are obscure at best (can you tell me the Imperial measurement for mass instead of weight?). It is lack of familiarity or effort that has kept the USA from making a change to the Metric System in full, or at least predominance (referred to as going from "soft metric" to "hard metric"). Most of the world deliberately chose and fully converted to the Metric System, and thus have unified measurements that are consistent.
Exactly. Most Imperial measurements are based off such logic.
The pound, actually. It serves as a valid mass measurement. No different than the gram in that regard.
I have made no snide remarks. I've stated an objective statement of fact. The fact that you are objectively wrong is entirely on you.
Oh right, the Slug was the one I had vaguely recalled. I don't know if it even has to do with ammo, though, in that context. It might be something else. But it is obscure and never used seriously.
Now what did I say earlier about the issues with inferring things, which even programs can do? See the issue?
Celsius will be remembered as the initial basis for Kelvin. That's a pretty good legacy.
He clearly told me that in his opinion I was making 'snide remarks' when I expressed my (well founded) doubts about Wolfram Alpha's accuracy.
On the contrary: They're extremely efficient. Just not very precise. But you're probably still going to make a good stew if you don't get out the protractor and ruler every time a recipe says to cut meat into 1" cubes.
Every antecedent that I have biases me against it, but Imperial Units have some strengths.
... I'm the special one, when you were the one saying you doubted AC's claim that wolfram alpha said it was nine.
Clearly your math professors tried to teach you right.
The way it's written plays like you're expressing doubts about AC's claims. Claims which were, in fact, correct.
The brine part is correct.
I like to think of it as "Imperial measures things on the human scale... the universe has made it abundantly clear that it doesn't care about the human scale..."
Sorry if I just got a little bit confused there for the moment. I thought you were speaking in defense of WA and their calculations instead of, apparently, taking a righteous steaming shit on their shitty excuse of a calculator.
Sure.
Actually, it still gets it wrong in 'math input' mode.