Monty by Jim Meddick for June 15, 2022

Made me look!

Uh huh

A hyperbolic abacus? Why, THAT’S THE GREATEST THING EVER!!!!!!!!!!!

“Now if I could just figure out how to use the damn thing.”

Sounds pretty spacey to me, unless Sedge is pursuing crypto currency trading. Then such abstract calculating devices may come in handy when confronting his wallet holder, now vacationing in Barbados.

Don’t people use Slapsticks anymore?

I bought a circular slide rule when I headed off to college. Never learned how to use it.

we used an abacus in my elementary school days. we called them ‘number-aids’.

Kid, that “abacus” is spherical, not “hyperbolic”. Looks like you’re gonna flunk non-Euclidean geometry.

Im really sick of this ugly trump-kid

Slide rulers can do all that stuff & still be 2-D

I’d guess about 1 in 10 in my high school had a slide rule. I’d guess maybe 2 in 10 of high school kids had a pocket calculator. But EVERYBODY has a smart phone.

Is it cheating if you count on your fingers and toes??? :)

Looks like a Buckyball.

What we (I) need is a chip implanted in our brains with all the math we will ever need. We will never get it. Anyone who has the money to develop it, doesn’t want us be able to figure out how they did it.

Geez, back in The Day, Sonny, we had slide rules for those functions! Yep, the good old slipstick. Still have mine, tucked away at the back of a desk drawer….

Of course!