Timeline for Calculator Bomb
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 17:24 | answer | added | ricky3350 | timeline score: 4 | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:20 | history | edited | Excited Raichu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:20 | vote | accept | Excited Raichu | ||
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:11 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | Yes, that is correct. I see what you're saying now. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:10 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | Nope, still don't understand. Suppose the display says 5. Then I hit + and then 4; the display still says 4, right? So now I hit the $x^2$ key. An actual calculator will square the 4 currently displayed and get 16. That is also what you have just said it does. But I think your intention is something else: that when you hit that key it will "finish" the current calculation as if you'd pressed =, getting 9, before squaring. Is that right? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:07 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | 1. 5 is already typed in. You cannot add numbers to it right now (because you can't press a number in when there's an already existing number in with no equation.) 2. $10^x$ computes 10 to the power of whatever number is in the display at that moment, as does $x^2$ (except it squares the current number). 3. The calculator is like that to make it harder :^) | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:05 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | Wow, I'm getting a lot of comments. Addressing them 1 at a time. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:04 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | Also, could you clarify what the $10^x$ button does? Is it used for entering exponents (so e.g. if you hit 4 then $10^x$ then 7 you get the number 40000000) as on actual calculators, or does it actually compute 10 to the power of whatever number is currently shown on the display, or something else? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | PotatoLatte | Do you mean 5 as in already typed in, or a previous answer? (Basically can you add stuff to make it like 54 or something?) | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:02 | comment | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | I don't think I understand how this calculator is supposed to work; it certainly isn't the same as any real calculator I've ever used. Is the idea that when you hit the "squared" button it first of all behaves as if you have pressed the = key, and then squares the result? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 2:00 | history | edited | Excited Raichu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:59 | comment | added | PotatoLatte | "Don't call the police or anyone to help, either"... heh heh heh | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:58 | comment | added | Excited Raichu | No parentheses. | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:57 | comment | added | PotatoLatte | No parentheses? | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:54 | answer | added | Gareth McCaughan♦ | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:53 | answer | added | Alto | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 23, 2018 at 1:37 | history | asked | Excited Raichu | CC BY-SA 4.0 |