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[–] -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Pretty sure the teacher wasn't assuming that every single child in class was going to be a machinist.

In fact, most people aren't machinists.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    And yet my point stands: if you need to do a lot of calculations at your job, you'd be stupid not to have a calculator in your pocket. And if you don't, then the time it takes to find a calculator will be negligible.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Uh what, that's literally the point lol. The "you won't have a calculator" has been complete and utter bullshit for literally over half a century.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Bro, smartphones haven't even existed for 20 years

    You're talking as if everybody was carrying around pocket calculators the day they were invented

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    No actually I literally specified people whose jobs require doing a lot of calculations lmao

    If your job required lots of calculations, and you heard about this fancy new thing called a pocket calculator, wouldn't you go out and buy one?

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