Nifty little mpg calculator

Well duh! To allow you to do MPG calculations in your head as you
drive away from the garage, rather than waiting until you've got home
and firing up the interweb.

A dark day in the annals of education. I bet you can't even use log
tables, eh?

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Course I can. Just happen to prefer glass and stainless steel, that's all.

 

I did, at one point. Just wanted to look cool, y'all

 

PMSL

 

Aye. But did you realise that sliderules were just log tables onna
stick?

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miles per gallon = mpg

 

Hmm AFAICR calculators were not allowed in the maths exams and use of log
tables had to be demonstrated.

I had two slide rules, one of them was the circular variant, of which I was
unjustifiably proud.

 

Log table?

Slide rule?

It's like a foreign language.

 

We will survive the Nuclear Winter though.

 

These guys probably remember when a computer was a person.

 

<fx: fond memories of Casio FX-82 and FX-100>

this fx-83ES I have sitting in front of me[1] is completely "other"
compared to those old school jobs - it displays fractions and square
roots etc. properly.

 

Oh shit I had a working 82 until a few years ago and the LCD finally died.
Even had the brown pvc pouch. Class act.

 

The standard FX-82 came in a black case, not a brown one.

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yup - mine was black too.

 

things have changed:

http://www.casio.co.uk/Products/Calculators/Scientific Calculators/FX83ES/At a Glance/

(I got given one of these with the course material for my IMC)

 

I still have and use the FX-80[1] that I bought in 1979.

[1]just like this[2] but in better condition.
[2]http://ead.univ-angers.fr/~schraf/pockets/fx80.jpg

 

still on the first set of batteries?

 

Up to a couple of years ago, yes.

 

This sub-thread is rivetting!

 

you had to be there, man, you just had to be there.