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2023-08-22 -Great Cultural Revolution

Military considers allowing calculators on entrance exam amid continued recruiting struggles: report

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 ...No. Just, no. There is NOTHING on the ASVAB so demanding it requires a calculator.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2023-08-22 06:07|| 2023-08-22 06:07|| Front Page Top

#2 How many carpenter saws do you see in this drawing ?

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-22 08:13|| 2023-08-22 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Zero is not a number.

The mind-bendy weirdness of the number zero, explained

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-22 08:17|| 2023-08-22 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 I always liked that 0! = 1

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-22 08:18|| 2023-08-22 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Number 2 is a trick question. Please disregard.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-22 08:20|| 2023-08-22 08:20|| Front Page Top

#6 I used to teach Construction Electricity courses for young apprentices and trainees. There is a lot of math that goes along with this.

On the first day of class I always brought in a 6-foot stepladder, climbed up (not to the top rung for you OSHA guys) and dropped a calculator to the floor. It inevitably smashed (bought a cheap one for each demonstration).

Then I asked the question "You have to calculate something, no one else around you has another calculator, so what do you do now?"

Then proceeded to teach, or refresh, the wonders of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication on paper. (Including fractions, which for some reason was the most difficult for many).

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-08-22 08:49|| 2023-08-22 08:49|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ Very excellent teaching point. I doubt many forgot it.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-22 08:55|| 2023-08-22 08:55|| Front Page Top

#8 ^^ Excellent teaching example, MR! I remember working in an ice cream freezer and 'pro tip': LCD screens on calculators don't work at -12F and sometimes the calculator works after being thawed ...sometimes. Pencils and mental calculation time if you ever have to do a physical inventory count.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-22 10:31|| 2023-08-22 10:31|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Unrelated, but electrical.

I just finished wiring a smoke detector in the wife's basement hobby rooom. Linked it to an existing detector in an adjacent storage area. Went to Depot to get 15 foot of 14-3 Romex. Paid almost $47.00...unbelieveable. It was locked in a cage due to shrinkage.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-22 10:43|| 2023-08-22 10:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Interconnected Combination Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm with Voice Location, Battery Operated $41.99

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-22 11:30|| 2023-08-22 11:30|| Front Page Top

#11 I sat for the CPA exam in November 1992. It was the second to last time calculators weren't allowed in the exam room. Now it's basically required.

Posted by Raj 2023-08-22 14:30|| 2023-08-22 14:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Just dug out some of my old high school algebra books to keep the old brain active. Pre-computers, pre-calculators. Full of appendix pages with values for logarithmic and trigonometric functions we could look up. And I am really surprised by the amount of just plain old arithmetic we were expected to do by hand.

Posted by Tom 2023-08-22 14:39|| 2023-08-22 14:39|| Front Page Top

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