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I almost wrote an app to work it out.
Almost.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I smell the works of a new article coming out 
Hogan
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took me 5 seconds before I continued reading because I do any mathematical problem when I see it without thinking why would I do it
weird!! but I love doing it
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Clickety[^]
I often to paper calculations, just to keep my hand in, so to speak. When I'm developing games, especially, some of the trig I actually enjoy working out on paper much more than just getting the answer from some electronic medium.
Chris Maunder wrote: Our kids are screwed.
Only if the power goes out
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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In Q&A you know that the answer would have been to tell you to Google[^] it. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Dude I have one better for you.. how much time do you work on a PC?... had you ever tried to write a small letter... by hand!!! that's almost impossible, my hand start to hurt after the 4 or 5 first words... and forget about the lack of auto-correct!!
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You shouldn't have hand cramps unless you have a death grip on the pencil/pen. You can also get cramps from writing too fast. That's been my experience. And yes, I'm a lot older than most of you. 
Fletcher Glenn
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My alarm clock app requires me to do some simple arithmetic to turn off the buzzer. It tends to make me more alert than just hitting a button.
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After progressing from use of tools to engineering, I guess that in Darwinian terms you could say that homo sapiens sapiens has become a mathematical genus. It appears that we are about to be superseded by the boolean genus, however.
Wait - did I miss something?
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Chris Maunder wrote: Our kids are screwed
Don't think of them as "our kids", think of them as the future coders of self-driving cars and airplane design software. They're not screwed, we are.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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This morning. Home improvement store. Checkout. Price plus tax $18.02. I paid cash with a $20 bill and wait, I have two pennies in my pocket. I hoped I get two dollar bills back. No, I got one dollar bill, 98 cents in coins plus my additional 2 pennies back. Asking her why she entered $20 instead of $20.02 for the amount rendered, she responded she was never taught to enter such odd amounts. I gave her all the coins back asking for a dollar bill. She put it on the counter and started counting them. It took her two attempts to find out that it was a dollar. No child left behind!
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Yet another sad example of our current school curriculum. I've also had store clerks refuse to take payment with a dollar coin. The prevailing opinion was that it could not be money. Come to think of it, the dollar coin does look like a video arcade token. Where to get a dollar coin? Buy stamps from a post office vending machine. The machine gives them for change.
Fletcher Glenn
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Are rechargeable batteries often revolting?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm most positive that they are.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, they certainly have the potential.
/ravi
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It's good that there are no negative thoughts here.
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It's good to see everyone conducting themselves in a civil manner.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well, currently they are.
/ravi
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Hopefully it's a sine of things to come.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yes, these things tend to come in waves.
/ravi
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I'm shocked by your comment.
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No, not yet, its all very much Coulomb these days, as no-one can take charge and get their ampere in order...
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Yeah, I forsee a power struggle with lots of sparks flying. We need a well grounded individual - someone who's down to earth and can take charge of things.
/ravi
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You can ground electrons all you want but nothing positive will result from that.
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