Randomness

[Weeble]

Oh, and by the way i refuse to use any HP products except my old calculator, cause once you do rpn you can't go back. My printers are epsons...

[Distracted]

I wish I understood what he just said...

[Kotik]

weeble is talking in code

[Weeble]

Dis,

RPN is reverse Polish Notation, no joke. if you have never used an HP calculator don't, there is no equals and a strange button called 'enter'. its an engineer thing.

[Kotik]

You know how to shoot yourself in the foot in RPN, do you?

foot in yourself shoot

[Weeble]

yup,

if you are an RPN user you know. You can't go back, its kinda like Borg assimilation. Besides its better.

Me, act on me, result

[Distracted]

In other words, RPN is structured like the German language. Joy. Just thinking about it gives me a headache. All bass-ackwards and stuff. Fortunately the only calculations I usually need to do involve things like counting the pulse for 15 seconds and multiplying by 4. It gets really complicated when I get a foreign student in and I have to convert from kilos to pounds or Celsius to Fahrenheit. Takes me a while. Math is definitely not my thing.

[Weeble]

Try converting meters per second into furlongs per fortnight.....

[Distracted]

When would you ever need furlongs per fortnight?

[Kotik]

In other words, RPN is structured like the German language. Joy. Just thinking about it gives me a headache. All bass-ackwards and stuff. Fortunately the only calculations I usually need to do involve things like counting the pulse for 15 seconds and multiplying by 4. It gets really complicated when I get a foreign student in and I have to convert from kilos to pounds or Celsius to Fahrenheit. Takes me a while. Math is definitely not my thing.

Not really. German is a grammatical mess, but doesn't really have much similarities with RPN. You won't get much sympathy for the conversion troubles. Since the US Of Americaland are the only major country in the world, which still insists on bass-ackwards units like Fahrenheit or pounds instead of just adopting the relatively simple metric system, I'd say you guys only have yourself to blame

[Weeble]

Furlongs per fortnight really really slow horse one of those high school extra credit questions that stuck in my head.

I like the metric system for most things, not all, like pressure calcs (psi makes sense to me). We also did not adopt the Euro, that marvelous medium of currency exchange. No doubt soon you will be bringing back the Deutsch Mark just to save yourselves.

[Kotik]

Furlongs per fortnight really really slow horse one of those high school extra credit questions that stuck in my head.

I like the metric system for most things, not all, like pressure calcs (psi makes sense to me). We also did not adopt the Euro, that marvelous medium of currency exchange. No doubt soon you will be bringing back the Deutsch Mark just to save yourselves.

You can't reall compare a unified currency, with a system that is in use world-wide except for the US of A, Burma and Liberia BTW, America couldn't have adopted the Euro even if they wanted to. With the rampaging debts, the US wouldn't have met the entry requirements.

[Weeble]

Thank goodness for small favors

[lfvoy]

Agreed. It took me long enough, growing up, to learn how to write a dollar sign. That weird sort-of-kind-of-but-not-really-an-E thing that goes in front of Euros? Really just looks like a spiderweb to me...

[Kotik]

I think the Euro is a good thing. With you countries vastness most Americans don't really understand how it was to live in pre-Euro Europe. Just imagine that every US state would have its own currency, so whenever you went into a different state, you'd have to change, losing money everytime. Now I can go across half of Europe paying with the same currency in most of them. Not to mention that all countries in the Eurozone are now on a level playing field economically. Back in the day the Spanish Peseta or the Italian Lira were ridiculously weak currencies, while the Deutsche Mark was pretty strong. That meant that exported German goods were expensive abroad, while the Mediterraneans flooded Europe with dirt cheap warez. Now it's the same for all.