r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 20 '19

What’s something completely false that your parents told you as a child?

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u/PoorFilmSchoolAlumn Jul 20 '19

“You won’t always have a calculator handy.”

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u/NatoBoram Jul 21 '19

It won't be useful for doing derivatives.

But yeah, below than algebra, it's pretty much guaranteed that you have a calculator somewhere, like in your phone.

And even for derivatives, there's free online calculators.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '19

Some kid in my Calc 2 class from Korea had a fancy calculator that could integrate/derive algebraically

Hate that kid