As an American I found that weird as well. I might say "change up" in local dialog but would never write it out. I would also say "slow down" and "speed up" but would be 50/50 on writing it out.
I've owned a computer since 1983. I started with Apple then moved to PC's in 1993. I now own three pc's and one Apple. I've used Linux since 1995. I can honestly say, no, I've never had any of them problems you describe and I agree with the parent, you don't have problems unless you're stupid.
Wrong choice of words on my part. I meant like today's "standard" calculators, since that is what the 4004 is like and that is what the site talks about for comparison. Of course financial calculators still do it this way with positive/negative cash flows.
Of course if you had bothered to read the article, you'd know that it doesn't work like todays calculators but like the old adding machines:
"The electronic calculators that accountants used 35 years ago worked differently than the familiar four-function calculator we use today. These were designed to behave much like mechanical adding machines of the 1960's. After every number you want to add to the total, you need to press +, so = doesn't work like you'd expect. Here are some examples:
To add three numbers: 61 + 79 + 83 + = (if you forget the last +, the 83 won't get added) To subtract two numbers: 2007 + 1971 - = To multiply two numbers: 125 x 5 = (this is more like we're used to) To divide two numbers: 625 / 5 = "
10-20USD in China is expensive for the Chinese. You can eat a good whole meal in China for 65 cents. You can eat a comparable meal in the US (I'm from the midwest) for about $7. That's more than ten times the price of the Chinese meal and thus 10-20USD in China is about 100-200USD in the US.
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As an American I found that weird as well. I might say "change up" in local dialog but would never write it out. I would also say "slow down" and "speed up" but would be 50/50 on writing it out.
I don't normally reply to AC's but...
I've owned a computer since 1983. I started with Apple then moved to PC's in 1993. I now own three pc's and one Apple. I've used Linux since 1995. I can honestly say, no, I've never had any of them problems you describe and I agree with the parent, you don't have problems unless you're stupid.
Wrong choice of words on my part. I meant like today's "standard" calculators, since that is what the 4004 is like and that is what the site talks about for comparison. Of course financial calculators still do it this way with positive/negative cash flows.
And by a whole lot more you mean 4 times more, right?
Of course if you had bothered to read the article, you'd know that it doesn't work like todays calculators but like the old adding machines:
"The electronic calculators that accountants used 35 years ago worked differently than the familiar four-function calculator we use today. These were designed to behave much like mechanical adding machines of the 1960's. After every number you want to add to the total, you need to press +, so = doesn't work like you'd expect. Here are some examples:
To add three numbers: 61 + 79 + 83 + = (if you forget the last +, the 83 won't get added)
To subtract two numbers: 2007 + 1971 - =
To multiply two numbers: 125 x 5 = (this is more like we're used to)
To divide two numbers: 625 / 5 = "
10-20USD in China is expensive for the Chinese. You can eat a good whole meal in China for 65 cents. You can eat a comparable meal in the US (I'm from the midwest) for about $7. That's more than ten times the price of the Chinese meal and thus 10-20USD in China is about 100-200USD in the US.
Yep, list was pretty poor for me after a spotted several mistakes...things that IE can do that the author apparently doesn't know about. Oh well.