Use of the present tense, no reference to the past at all
So, “textbooks never use the word juxtaposition” only refers to textbooks that are currently being written? Being printed right this second?
Because every single textbook you’ve cited, I absolutely guarantee it… was written in the past!
How shall we make sense of this conundrum? Well, it’s simple if you speak English: the non-continuous present tense in English is used to express general facts. Thus “I never use drugs” doesn’t mean the same as “I am not using drugs at the moment” but implies something about the past.
So yeah, you absolutely said the wrong thing, and your reason for using it is stupid. If you were any kind of reasonable person and not someone incapable of admitting the slightest mistake, you would have said, “oh, sorry, I meant that textbooks don’t use the word ‘juxtaposition’ any more”. You wouldn’t still be saying, “nope, nothing wrong with what I said even though it was clearly at best misleading!”
Unlike you I have an actual calculator, no need to look in manuals for how they work. Other dude posted a link where you can buy one for under $10. Go ahead and get one, and let me know what answer it gives you to 2+3x4. I’ll wai
Mate, try and keep track. We’re talking about a specific calculator and its specific manual. Your calculator is not relevant to that one. You are making claims about the operation of the Sinclair Executive that you can’t back up.
Note that pressing it turns a+b into (a+b) and not a+b+
Yes, and how much stack space does this calculator have, again? Oh, that’s right, you haven’t the slightest clue.
It has memory to store exactly three numbers. One operand. One accumulator. And one explicitly manipulated with the memory buttons. Where does it store a and b after you have typed a + b x? Where does it store it?
Now, if you want to talk about your favourite calculator, let’s do it. Post a photo or video of you doing exactly this! Tell us the model so I can look up the manual! I won’t start telling you things about your calculator that I can’t demonstrate, either.
Says person lying
“Says person lying” is your favourite deflection. It’s as childish as “NUH-UH!”. You need to reply to everything single clause, but have nothing to contribute. Your pathetic inability to come up with anything resembling an argument entertains me though, so keep doing it.
It’s so interesting that you couldn’t find anything in the manual saying, “this is a special kind of calculator”
says person lying about the screenshot saying you can use chains with it
You can use chains with any calculator or without a calculator, pal. “Calculations can usually be reconstructed as simple chains” is just a fact about arithmetic calculations, isn’t it. This is even worse than pretending that “never use” means “not using this moment”. I bet you accuse people of bad reading comprehension a lot, don’t you. The common factor (ZING) is you!
with a proven liar. Nope.
Pathetic, but expected.
I’m sure you would go out and buy a chain calculator, then claim it was a “normal” calculator you just had lying around which you magically happened to find
The calculator I have found was a freebie handed out at some event. Presumably that wouldn’t be a “niche” calculator.
If I google “chain calculator” the results I get are for bicycle chains. If I go on Amazon and search for “chain calculator”, I get calculators on keychains. You seem to have made this term up, and I have no idea how, even if I didn’t have a calculator lying around, I would go and find this niche product.
But a four-function calculator, or a stackless calculator - these are all terms I understand. And on such calculators - the calculators we all had in primary school, If you press the following sequence of buttons: 2 + 3 x 5 =, the answer it will give is 25.
It’s strange, isn’t it, how you have to accuse developers and project managers with decades of experience of inexplicably introducing inexcusable bugs into calculator software (even though they can make scientific calculator modes work correctly!), can’t bring yourself to admit that such calculators were normal, yet there’s such a simple explanation! They’re emulating basic four-function calculators that have existed for decades.
It’s weird that you’re pretending that you admitted to begin wrong
Because every single textbook you’ve cited, I absolutely guarantee it… was written in the past!
But being used in schools right now, and you’re desperately trying to twist my words around to mean something else because you can’t find any textbooks which say juxtaposition, except for one from 1912 🤣🤣🤣
How shall we make sense of this conundrum?
You’re the only one who has issues with understanding present and past tense dude, you’re the only one trying to use a 1912 textbook in the argument.
“I never use drugs” doesn’t mean the same as “I am not using drugs at the moment”
Yes it does, because “I never use drugs” isn’t the same as “I have never used drugs” 🙄
So yeah, you absolutely said the wrong thing
I absolutely didn’t Mr. I can only find it in a 1912 textbook 🤣🤣🤣
your reason for using it is stupid.
says person trying to bring a 1912 textbook into the argument only to avoid admitting having been wrong 🙄
If you were any kind of reasonable person and not someone incapable of admitting the slightest mistake
So not like you, which I’m not 😂
you would have said, “oh, sorry, I meant that textbooks don’t use the word ‘juxtaposition’ any more”
It’s already there in the use of the present tense
Mate, try and keep track. We’re talking about a specific calculator and its specific manual.
And it specifically says you are wrong 🙄
Your calculator is not relevant to that one.
So when you said all, you didn’t really mean all, so an admission that you were wrong about “all”. Got it. Thanks for playing. Glad we’re done with the “basic” calculator topic then
“Says person lying” is your favourite
statement of fact
deflection
says person talking about calculators that don’t have brackets because he’s absolutely proven wrong about The Distributive Law, and is trying to deflect away from admitting being wrong about that 🙄
the calculators we all had in primary school, If you press the following sequence of buttons: 2 + 3 x 5 =, the answer it will give is
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even though they can make scientific calculator modes work correctly!
Nope! They don’t! With the exception of MathGPT, they all ignore The Distributive Law, you know, the actual original topic 🤣🤣🤣 The Windows calculator in Scientific mode says 8/2(1+3)=16, because, when you type it in, it changes it to 8/2x(1+3). It’s hilarious how you just keep making easily proven wrong statements and bring more embarrassment upon yourself, instead of just, you know, checking facts first 🤣🤣🤣
Note that neither MathGPT, nor the Sharp calculator, forcibly add in a multiply sign where it doesn’t belong. Welcome to dumb programmer who has forgotten how The Distributive Law works and didn’t bother checking in a Maths textbook first.
yet there’s such a simple explanation! They’re emulating basic four-function calculators that have existed for decades
No they’re not! Just like they’re also not emulating Scientific calculators that have existed for decades! 🤣🤣🤣
The only reason we’re still talking about the old textbook is because you said that something never happens which, in fact, has happened. I’m glad though that I can now honestly say “I never make mistakes” because all mistakes I’ve made are in the past, which we know such a present-tense sentence has no bearing on, because the present tense concerns only this current moment and no others!
I never make mistakes, I never eat or drink, I never breathe (holding my breath as I write, you see), I never move, but never stay still! Well you’ve opened up a whole new genre of nonsense poetry! I assume you’d really agree that I am never wrong - right?
Now, it’s strange you didn’t take up my offer to show this calculator of yours (that you were so proud of that you tried to insert it into a conversation about a different one) so come on, show me a picture of it! Or better yet, a video of you typing in 2+3×5=. I can hardly admit that I was wrong about my general statement about basic calculators if I can’t even confirm that yours exists. My offer stands, if you still want to insist that my freebie calculator is a “niche” one (what niche are you even saying the are used in? You never said.)
Nothing to say about the nonexistent stack depth of the Sinclair Executive huh? Guess you finally checked out the spec sheet for its chip and found out how many bytes of memory it had.
Now, you’ve done a silly with the software calculators there, you see, we’re talking about order of operations, not how calculators render implicit multiplication. We can get to your la-la beliefs on the latter at some point, but you really ought to keep these things straight in your mind.
But for the sake of clarity, I’ll rephrase: you have no sane explanation for why scientific mode tends to obey a different order of operations than basic mode on software calculators. I do, and it’s because they’re emulating basic, four-function calculators which had no stack.
So, “textbooks never use the word juxtaposition” only refers to textbooks that are currently being written? Being printed right this second?
Because every single textbook you’ve cited, I absolutely guarantee it… was written in the past!
How shall we make sense of this conundrum? Well, it’s simple if you speak English: the non-continuous present tense in English is used to express general facts. Thus “I never use drugs” doesn’t mean the same as “I am not using drugs at the moment” but implies something about the past.
So yeah, you absolutely said the wrong thing, and your reason for using it is stupid. If you were any kind of reasonable person and not someone incapable of admitting the slightest mistake, you would have said, “oh, sorry, I meant that textbooks don’t use the word ‘juxtaposition’ any more”. You wouldn’t still be saying, “nope, nothing wrong with what I said even though it was clearly at best misleading!”
Mate, try and keep track. We’re talking about a specific calculator and its specific manual. Your calculator is not relevant to that one. You are making claims about the operation of the Sinclair Executive that you can’t back up.
Yes, and how much stack space does this calculator have, again? Oh, that’s right, you haven’t the slightest clue.
It has memory to store exactly three numbers. One operand. One accumulator. And one explicitly manipulated with the memory buttons. Where does it store a and b after you have typed a + b x? Where does it store it?
Now, if you want to talk about your favourite calculator, let’s do it. Post a photo or video of you doing exactly this! Tell us the model so I can look up the manual! I won’t start telling you things about your calculator that I can’t demonstrate, either.
“Says person lying” is your favourite deflection. It’s as childish as “NUH-UH!”. You need to reply to everything single clause, but have nothing to contribute. Your pathetic inability to come up with anything resembling an argument entertains me though, so keep doing it.
You can use chains with any calculator or without a calculator, pal. “Calculations can usually be reconstructed as simple chains” is just a fact about arithmetic calculations, isn’t it. This is even worse than pretending that “never use” means “not using this moment”. I bet you accuse people of bad reading comprehension a lot, don’t you. The common factor (ZING) is you!
Pathetic, but expected.
The calculator I have found was a freebie handed out at some event. Presumably that wouldn’t be a “niche” calculator.
If I google “chain calculator” the results I get are for bicycle chains. If I go on Amazon and search for “chain calculator”, I get calculators on keychains. You seem to have made this term up, and I have no idea how, even if I didn’t have a calculator lying around, I would go and find this niche product.
But a four-function calculator, or a stackless calculator - these are all terms I understand. And on such calculators - the calculators we all had in primary school, If you press the following sequence of buttons: 2 + 3 x 5 =, the answer it will give is 25.
It’s strange, isn’t it, how you have to accuse developers and project managers with decades of experience of inexplicably introducing inexcusable bugs into calculator software (even though they can make scientific calculator modes work correctly!), can’t bring yourself to admit that such calculators were normal, yet there’s such a simple explanation! They’re emulating basic four-function calculators that have existed for decades.
Lol OK kiddo!
But being used in schools right now, and you’re desperately trying to twist my words around to mean something else because you can’t find any textbooks which say juxtaposition, except for one from 1912 🤣🤣🤣
You’re the only one who has issues with understanding present and past tense dude, you’re the only one trying to use a 1912 textbook in the argument.
Yes it does, because “I never use drugs” isn’t the same as “I have never used drugs” 🙄
I absolutely didn’t Mr. I can only find it in a 1912 textbook 🤣🤣🤣
says person trying to bring a 1912 textbook into the argument only to avoid admitting having been wrong 🙄
So not like you, which I’m not 😂
It’s already there in the use of the present tense
And it specifically says you are wrong 🙄
So when you said all, you didn’t really mean all, so an admission that you were wrong about “all”. Got it. Thanks for playing. Glad we’re done with the “basic” calculator topic then
statement of fact
says person talking about calculators that don’t have brackets because he’s absolutely proven wrong about The Distributive Law, and is trying to deflect away from admitting being wrong about that 🙄
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Nope! They don’t! With the exception of MathGPT, they all ignore The Distributive Law, you know, the actual original topic 🤣🤣🤣 The Windows calculator in Scientific mode says 8/2(1+3)=16, because, when you type it in, it changes it to 8/2x(1+3). It’s hilarious how you just keep making easily proven wrong statements and bring more embarrassment upon yourself, instead of just, you know, checking facts first 🤣🤣🤣
Sharp calculator obeying The Distributive Law
Note that neither MathGPT, nor the Sharp calculator, forcibly add in a multiply sign where it doesn’t belong. Welcome to dumb programmer who has forgotten how The Distributive Law works and didn’t bother checking in a Maths textbook first.
No they’re not! Just like they’re also not emulating Scientific calculators that have existed for decades! 🤣🤣🤣
The only reason we’re still talking about the old textbook is because you said that something never happens which, in fact, has happened. I’m glad though that I can now honestly say “I never make mistakes” because all mistakes I’ve made are in the past, which we know such a present-tense sentence has no bearing on, because the present tense concerns only this current moment and no others!
I never make mistakes, I never eat or drink, I never breathe (holding my breath as I write, you see), I never move, but never stay still! Well you’ve opened up a whole new genre of nonsense poetry! I assume you’d really agree that I am never wrong - right?
Now, it’s strange you didn’t take up my offer to show this calculator of yours (that you were so proud of that you tried to insert it into a conversation about a different one) so come on, show me a picture of it! Or better yet, a video of you typing in 2+3×5=. I can hardly admit that I was wrong about my general statement about basic calculators if I can’t even confirm that yours exists. My offer stands, if you still want to insist that my freebie calculator is a “niche” one (what niche are you even saying the are used in? You never said.)
Nothing to say about the nonexistent stack depth of the Sinclair Executive huh? Guess you finally checked out the spec sheet for its chip and found out how many bytes of memory it had.
Now, you’ve done a silly with the software calculators there, you see, we’re talking about order of operations, not how calculators render implicit multiplication. We can get to your la-la beliefs on the latter at some point, but you really ought to keep these things straight in your mind.
But for the sake of clarity, I’ll rephrase: you have no sane explanation for why scientific mode tends to obey a different order of operations than basic mode on software calculators. I do, and it’s because they’re emulating basic, four-function calculators which had no stack.