Keelan Lightfoot wrote:
>
> I've got an Olivetti Divisumma, a motor driven mechanical calculator that
> can add, subtract, multiply and divide. I have never tried a divide by 0 on
> it, but I think I will go out tomorrow and give it a try

Most of the simple calculators were smart (dumb?) enough to not try a
divide by 0. The Fridens were programmable with little levers, toggles,
and so forth, and you could sneak up on the actual division. Just like
MS Windows ignores attempted accesses on NULL, I imagine the original
Friden engineers figured anyone making that fundamental an error
deserved what they got.

>  Bears like apples. I can't see a bear at night, but it can see me!).

Actually, a bear doesn't have the greatest vision during the day, and I
doubt it improves at night. They definitely can smell an apple though.

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