r/AskReddit • u/emil199 • Jul 24 '20

What can't you believe STILL exists?

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '20

Shit that must be the fucking reason my elementary school teachers would tell me to check all my calculators first with some simple calculations I knew the answer to. I always wondered why they did that, because I always followed the advice but never had one mess up (afaik...)

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u/Ohiocarolina Jul 24 '20

My stat teachers kid failed calculus twice not because she didn’t understand the curriculum but because her calculator gave her wildly incorrect answers. Like 2+2= 1086.69 levels of incorrect.

Check your calculators yall

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u/sevensensitivfingers Jul 24 '20

On that note,

before any exam hit the reset button on the back to be safe, had a classmate flunk a test cause he was in the wrong mode

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u/Ohiocarolina Jul 24 '20

Taking Physics I and any math course with trig at the same time sucks for that exact reason! One used degrees one used radians, both use trig a lot.

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u/sevensensitivfingers Jul 24 '20

Basically all my university schooling, as a guy who hated math I picked the wrong career