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April 15, 2019 03:42 pm PDT
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Mechanical calculators have the BEST divide-by-zero errors
In a delightful short video, Klara Sjberg demonstrates the extreme and alarming freakout that you can trigger in a mechanical calculator by trying to divide a number by zero; in a followup, Lynn Grant tweets "That is why the old Friden calculators had a 'Divide Stop' key."
Read the restWhat happens with you divide by zero on a mechanical calculator. pic.twitter.com/CLfeoSzqzX
— Klara Sjberg (@klara_sjo) April 13, 2019
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