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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-08-14 2:09 PM, wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 at 12:58:10 PM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:

>> I've always been a great speller with a decent vocabulary, but I am not
>> great with punctuation (especially commas) at all.
>>
>> Cheri
>>
>>
> Spelling and generally punctuation has always been my strong points.

Has or have?

> But math, oh my, let's not go there. I thought I had died and gone
> to heaven when Texas Instruments introduced the handheld, reasonably
> priced, calculators back in the '70's.

Too late in the 70s for me. I had to take a statistics and probability
course at university an had to do statistical analysis tests on research
projects. Most of those tests involved a lot of squaring and finding
square roots.... which I still can't do. A pocket calculator that would
add, subtract, multiply, divide and to square roots, and only had
display for 8 digits, was about $250. That was about 2 weeks pay for
someone with a decent job. By the 80s they had better calculators in
the covers of 3 ring binders for about $6.