Can you old guys do math?

[BLS68]

Finally got it-Kamala Harris math!

 

[Rockingman]

we dont do math. we old we just bitch about the young whippersnappers

Very well said

 

[aFarewellToKings]

I was doing it before handhelds were on the scene. We still were using mechanical calculators and slide rules.

We had one of the largest mainframes in the world, but all the binary calculations were by hand.

We wrote programs on punch cards with fixed fields. What an incredible PITA.

And you better not drop that stack of punch cards!

Unrelated, but:
The story goes that on an early NASA mission, the engineer in charge of the weight control demanded to know the weight of the software.
He would not take for an answer that it had no weight and demanded to see it.
Finally he was shown a deck of punched cards.
"Ah ha!" he said, "see, I knew it had to weigh something".

The software engineer replied: "You don't understand, the software is the *holes* punched into these cards" :-)

 

[testdepth]

I know enough math to:
Ensure my paycheck is right
Ensure I'm not being cheated when I pay for anything
Ensure my retirement check is right
Ensure I'm not being cheated by any contractor
To read a tape measure twice but cut once
To figure bullet drop over distance

 

[eightnsand]

Do you drive this vehicle?

 

[sniper22]

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I don't get this? ^^

 

[gh1950]

And you better not drop that stack of punch cards!

Oh hell no.

or even get one out of order.

You couldn't even get a print out of where the problem was.

 

[l33571]

or even get one out of order.

You couldn't even get a print out of where the problem was.

That's why you hand numbered them or drew a line with a marker across one side of the stack.

BTW - this thread is pretty worthless. As OP pointed out, no practical application for base 6 and someone would have recognized binary, octal or hexadecimal which are all used. Should've just posted something funny