The benefit of having a big time conglomerate site such as howzyafatha is that I can reach out my masses with important questions and maybe after a post has been up for 3 weeks get a somewhat intelligent response from someone who accidentally found the site via AskJeeves.com or, if anything (and more likely) something from Pabs. A certain dilemma that has been biting at my ankles for years is the difference between the CE and C on a calculator. Yeah, yeah I know I should already know this but Mr. Fauci was too busy talking about his 2-9 football team to 6th grade girls and Mrs. DelBono was too busy lining all of us boys up against the wall to decide who was an instigator and who was a trouble maker.
When I need to get the calculator back to 0 I usually just hit each button 5-6 times because I’m not sure if I just hit 1 once it might not get me back to where I need to be. What is the difference? How am I supposed to use each? Can someone explain how I would have to use the other? Like an actual example I’m looking for. Simple shit I know but it is also the Friday before fucking Christmas eve and I’m not wasting my good rants and posts today.
This is a something I’ve been wondering since childhood. My son asked me the same thing a few weeks ago. I don’t think anybody knows the answer to this, not even Google.
ce is to clear the last entry only. so if youre adding 5+5 and accidentally press 5 then + the 6, ce kills the 6 and remembers the 5 + and waits. Thats why we get an all fucked up 598480.005e on the LCD display. We hit fucking ce instead of C. and i hate that little fucking error “e” too. I mean why the fuck give some off based wrong asnwer with a bunch of random numbers then that obnoxious ass e? how about just ERROR. so you enter your calculation hit = and get 598480.005e then think “well, that doesn’t look right” and then go ‘FUCKING e!’. must have hit the fucking c instead of ce. or did i hit ce? aw, fuck it. now we all hit the ce then the c like 5 times as your blog says.
i feel better now