Subj : Re: PI to 104 Decimal Places
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Ed Vance
Date : Thu Aug 28 2025 16:12:29



>  Artithmetic only? Add, Subtract, Multiply, divide?

>  I ordered a calculator after collecting box tops from some breakfast
>  cereal in the late '70s. Then, slim wallet calculators became the rage
>  - right about the time, albeit brief, that nylon/velcro wallets were
>  "cool".

>  It wasn't many years later before the first calculator watches came
>  out, my parents had a friend who worked at Hewlett Packard and had one
>  of their calculator watches - the LED model with a stylus.

>  My black rubber Casio calculator watch had to wait until much later.

>  I still have a drawer full of calculators - a couple of HP business
>  models including a vintage HP 12c, a couple of HP scientifics, another
>  of the CASIO Programmable calculator I used in the early '80s (bought
>  off eBay last year and still on the original battery!) and a couple of
>  scientific calculators. I keep a solar Casio scientific at my desk,
>  mostly because I hate having to look for a calculator app on my
>  desktop, and clicking buttons with a mouse feels *wrong*.

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My parents gave all the neices and nephews a CASIO calculator one christmas.
A neice showed me hers AND IT HAD A SQUARE ROOT KEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My 79 buck 4 banger didn't do square roots so I went to the mall and bought one
of those.
Can't remember the Modle Number, couldn't find it in this room, it is probably
downstairs.
Ed
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