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Old 05-12-2008, 09:24 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb View Post
Actually, maybe it's only funny to me. Although, SOMEbody bothered to make up the button. It's more of a Math thing, than computers. Us Mathematicians are always saying "X + Y >= 500" " for sufficiently large values of X". The button just takes it to absurd.

Okay, how about the other button: 6 * 9 = 42 (base 13) which charmed me no end when I first found it.
The button comes from the disdain that mathematicians have for physicists. Math uses precise values for integers. Physicists have a propensity to round off. So, 2.4 + 2.4 = 4.8, rounded up to 5 if the significant digit protocol for the calculation is one. For some reason this distresses mathematicians.

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