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Cue the comments about criticism of this calculator being unfair as thinking, for example, that 88*10 = 888 is a ‘very human’ mistake to make.
by xanderlewis 2y ago
Cue the comments about criticism of this calculator being unfair as thinking, for example, that 88*10 = 888 is a ‘very human’ mistake to make.
- lo0dot0 2y agoYou can only get an 8 in the rightmost digit of the result by multiples of the rightmost digits, but 08 obviously gets you a 0, so fairly easy to see this is wrong. (10a+b)(10c+d) = 100ac+10(ad+bc)+bd
- xanderlewis 2y agoWell… I was joking. Even more generally, multiplication by b in base b gives a zero at the end.
- xanderlewis 2y ago… and, in fact, ‘b in base b’ always looks like 10 anyway!
- aflag 2y agoI got 883, which is also very human. They just forgot to write one of the halves of 8