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[–] [email protected] 5 points 24 minutes ago

I see a lot of wrong info on the the decimal slider. This is how it works:

A is for "Add-mode". This means that 2 decimals are always assumed. It's used for adding a lot of 2 decimal numbers, because you'll never have to press the decimal key. If you've ever worked a credit card terminal and having to enter 200 to get 2.00$, that's how this setting works.

0-6 are fixed and rounded according to the rounding setting.

The decimal F is for floating. It'll use the most relevant amount of decimals.

Another funny button is MU which is Mark Up. It's used with the percentage button. It's a backward ass way to do percentages. You'll enter a value and then MU the percentage that you want from the result, instead of the input. Say you have product that costs 100 and you'll want to mark it up, so you'll get 20% of your new sales price as profit. Press 100 MU 20% and it should show 125, which is your sales price, because 25 is the 20% of 125. It doesn't make sense to me why anyone ever needed that button.

[–] [email protected] 125 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The first one lets you turn K on or off

[–] frankenswine 1 points 1 hour ago
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 64 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Fredselfish 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

From OKLAHOMA don't have no clue, don't why you think an Ok nerd would know over another state? /s

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 4 hours ago
[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 54 points 8 hours ago

Damn, it worked.

[–] theit8514 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Found some documentation listing the two middle switches as the rounding switch (up fraction down) and the decimal switch (auto? 0 to 6 then hex?). No idea on the other two.

http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/32853/1.htm

Decimal switch: [A-0-2-3-4-6-F], Round switch: [(ArrowUp)-5/4-(ArrowDown)], Miscellaneous switch: [(Blank)-K .-(Sigma)],

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 6 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (5 children)

Some guesses by ChatGPT:

Left Switch ("K" setting):
  • K: Likely for a "constant mode," where the calculator uses one operand as a constant for repeated >calculations (e.g., multiplying several numbers by the same value).
  • The other position is likely "normal mode," disabling this feature.
Middle Switch ("A/2/4/6" etc.):
  • This could control decimal rounding or precision:
  • "A" might stand for "automatic" mode.
  • "0, 2, 3, 4, 6" refers to the number of decimal places displayed or used in calculations.
  • "F" likely stands for "full precision," using all available decimal places.
Right Switch ("Σ" setting):
  • Σ: Likely enables a "summation mode," where the calculator automatically adds results to a running total (useful for bookkeeping or repetitive additions).
  • The other position disables this mode.

Being Swedish the "constant mode" seems likely as we often used k (for "konstant") in school math to represent a constant (e.g. for the slope of a line).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

This looks mostly right. The precision slider is definitely only for the output, not calculations. The (up | 5/4 | down) is (always round up | round 5+ up and 4- down | always round down)

What I'd like to know is how the A and F settings are different.

[–] Benjaben 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Auto to me (if A is Auto) sounds like it'd truncate unnecessary digits (4 or 4.0 instead of 4.0000) maybe? Whereas if F is Full then you'd get full precision?

Idk seems logical but not especially useful, probably not a great guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

i've never seen one of these display decimals like that, it doesn't seem like something that would need a setting.

[–] Benjaben 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah I don't think my comment is right lol.

[–] Nurse_Robot 18 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Bold of you to mention chat gpt in a comment, I feel like any mention of it tends to get down voted to hell, even when it's appropriately used as you did here

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Those fucking things are great as tools to figure stuff out. Can't trust them to be correct, but you can trust them to shoot the shit and dribble the ball to a destination which is unknowable to man

[–] TrickDacy 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can't trust them to be correct,

At some point people somehow got the idea that if you blindly trust something, bad things that come from that aren't your fault. People definitely aren't skeptical enough. That's the problem.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 0 points 2 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

At least it can give you more precise questions to google to verify its output

[–] TrickDacy 0 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, people are really bad at nuance and context. Even something that is normally a shitty tool can have uses.

[–] TootSweet 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Until I saw your post, I was going to guess the A,0,2,3,4,6,F switch would switch it into different numerical bases. Like, if you wanted to do math in binary, switch to the "2" position. "0" (or maybe "A") would be base 10. "F" would be hexadecimal. But what you have definitely makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

F is 15, so that'd be weird for hex, and I've never seen base 4 or 6 used for anything, base 8 is common for some things but missing here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

It kind of makes sense in that 15 is the last single digit in hex.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Did you just plug the picture into chatgpt? It's awesome if something like that works :o

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yes I uploaded the image and asked it the same question as OP

[–] hemmes 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I use that feature all the time. It’s really great. I can upload an image of text data and get an output in table or summary format.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 2 points 6 hours ago

Did you literally ask some nerd to explain this app? Thank

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (7 children)

It seems to be right on the K switch. And yeah. Konstant makes sense.

The numbered switch seems to check out at least. Other than the F. F just gives me a single decimal. edit: no... Three...?

Not sure about the right switch. It adds an I in the upper right corner and it seems possible to flip between different calculation results. Maybe?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

F is likely Floating point - so, just regular precision. Not sure what A would be, then

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

Checks out, since floating point is "flyttal" in Swedish.

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[–] theunknownmuncher 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

apology for poor english

when were you when svenska calculator post drop?

i was sat at home eating IKEA meatballs when notification ring

‘Calculator switch set to K’

‘no’

[–] thesohoriots 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It’s an older copypasta sir, but it checks out.

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Thanks, I already know no. means number

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Wait, holy crap, why is No. short for number? Must have to do with another language?

Edited to add, of course the answer is Latin.

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[–] Diplomjodler3 10 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

No means no, you misogynist pig!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Looks like Facit calculators were originally manufactured in Sweden and then later Japan. No mention of that particular model on this website, however

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I know. I'm in Sweden. Facit was a big thing in its day. This one's made by Sharp in Japan. It's a 2102. Or maybe that's when the manual will be released.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I see a round up, didn't round, or round down switch. The next one might be how many points if precision??. The last one has to do with sum vs series somehow.

That is interesting, though. Beyond me, that's for sure

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They seem to have some kind of function regarding how to perform or display calculations.

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