Comic Discussion > QUESTIONABLE CONTENT
WCT: July 27-31, 2009
Freelance_Physicist:
Why is Dora doing payroll and other financial calculations by hand?
bunnyThor:
--- Quote from: kemon on 28 Jul 2009, 23:50 ---well, if the carry ended up being ten, then it could be considered carrying the zero while the one gets carried to the next column. or transcribing a number from one column to another and lost the zero on the way.
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Yeah, but if so, you still wouldn't carry the zero. You'd carry the 10. And if you are doing a column of numbers big enough that you would be carrying a 10 (minimum 12 rows deep, and on the average 23 rows deep) then you should be using a calculator, just to avoid silly mistakes. (Or as mentioned above, a computer.
For Dora to be doing all her finances with pencil and paper is at least 50 years behind the times...possibly more considering all the robots and space stations.
TryScience:
Maybe she does her accounting in binary?
Sebastian:
Would you trust a computer doing your finances after you have meet Pintsize? :)
ysth:
--- Quote from: bunnyThor on 29 Jul 2009, 00:33 ---And if you are doing a column of numbers big enough that you would be carrying a 10 (minimum 12 rows deep, and on the average 23 rows deep)
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Closer to 22.
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