Ever heard of the Romans, Ancient Greeks, Scandinavians, Chinese and Japanese? I wonder how they ever managed to build advanced constructions, weapons (including projectiles), sanitary hygene solutions (Romans), colossal monuments, unique ships that can tolerate heavy currents (vikings), etc etc ad infinitum without the scientific calculator. I'm sure no one made a single advanced achievement before February 1 1972, when the scientific calculator was introduced. Leonhard Euler, widely considered as one of the greatest if not just the greatest mathematician, who died in 1783 and who has an enormous list of discoveries named after him because of his impact on those people being able to make those discoveries to begin with, to the point where they just had to stop doing it because it became too much. Among his contributions is beam theory, which is widely used in civil and mechanical engineering. But I'm sure calculating square roots was too much for him, 189 years before the scientific calculator became available. I wonder how John Napier was able to discover and publish his book on logarithms in 1614 when he didn't have a scientific calculator to do the work for him. Besides the engineers doing advanced work since (including logarithms) before the scientific calculator was introduced in 1972.

And perhaps you missed the part where I said people spent HOURS doing calculations? I called calculators the worst USEFUL tools for a reason. Short attention span at work right there.

The very fact that you're giving telecommunications engineering as an argument against my post is proof of, yet again, short attention span in full force. Why not cite biochemical engineering as an example while you're at it?

SOURCE: I rely on my own brain to do the thinking and to analyze what is presented to me.

 

Yeah, sure. Like if we didn't spent four hour tests doing calculations with the calculator. No pun intended but still funny.

Thinking failed: stack overflow. You could have guessed that was a joke. Source: I graduated from telecom engineering major plus master. Had to google that, at the time was just called roughly "long degree/major". Decades ago. I guess you could say I'm from the "wide attention span and heavy math" generation

Proper reasoning here is impossible. We seem to be living in different worlds. Or perhaps in different centuries, fuck me if I can make sense of your points. Let's just agree to disagree

 

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