• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      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.