Racehorse TALK

so does the new ones Cal, they just turn the question around to get the answer they want, they must have been invented by Sir Humphrey Appleby!!!  

EDIT: unneccesary stirring

I can understand how many here might not readily find this comprehensive yet succinct explanation of calculator philosophy:

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci824619,00.html

But what amazes me is how so many of you avoid googling to find an answer to something, instead parading your shortcomings here.

Somewhat like those Betfair masterminds who decided to rub out liquidity providers.

Smart people are smart people because they know how to solve a problem.

People with shortcomings are people with shortcomings because they don't know how to solve their shortcomings.

The world is composed of smart people and people with shortcomings but smart people aren't necessarily smart about everything and people with shortcomings don't necessarily have shortcomings about everything.

Isaac Newton might have been a failed orchardist but he worked out why the apple hit him on the head. The successful orchardist knew how to grow the apple but couldn't work out why it hit Newton on the head.

One of a number of ways in which this is rubbish:

I've found no credible source to suggest that Newton ever attempted being an orchardist.

Irrespective of that, who will actually believe that if it was important to him , he couldn't become as good an orchardist as anyone with comparable training.

The far more apt failing of Newton was being stung in the South Sea Bubble - an earlier version of the recent Dot Com Bubble.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

A disconcerting flaw for someone who was once the warden of the royal mint.

I don't need a calculator to tell me 1 + 1 = 2 always has and always will, if you have to Google it then maybe you should think about your own Shortcomings

By the way if Newton was so bloody smart  tell me this, Why was he standing under the apple tree?? I would not have stood there and been hit with the bloody apple in the first place    I would have thought that was pretty elementary stuff!!
If some one stupid enough not to get out of the way of falling apples,there would have been rotten apples on the ground, how did he think they got there?? If he is your barometer for intelligence maybe you need Google a lot more than I do      

Why inflict more of this drivel upon us!

Earlier you claimed that

2 + 2 =4

is not always so.

Why issue such a blatant contradiction!

Either both apply always.

Or neither apply always.

You clearly do not understand the nuances of

1 + 1 = 2

So shut up about it!

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For the record I found it easy on the Windows calculator to get a different answer than 2 for

1 + 1


But couldn't change 2 + 2 = 4

jfc I have just ione question for you
How many apples have fallen on your head!! or were you standing under a watermelon tree??

You insist on demonstrating your failure to grasp 1+1.

Try counting the number of questions again!

And go find yourself some topic about which you have a clue.

Settle down, this is obviously a topic about which you are passionate and I am just taking the P*#s out of you, I could care less about this (off topic) discussion or what you think you know about mathematics, Not all edcated peope are intelligent and for you to take this seriously is a reall worry for you isn't it??