Dividing by zero on a soviet era calculator

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The calculator is an Elektronika MK-61

This calculator uses reverse-polish notation, so instead of inputting 2 + 2 (Enter) = 4, you input 2,2,+ = 4.

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When I was in high school we had an early scientific calculator (I think it was a Wang, with nixie tubes). If you divided by zero, it went bonkers - the display would be flashing random digits. It was very cool.

ianboard

I love how it took a couple of seconds like the calculator was actually trying but then gave up

Rena

Modern calculators: noooo you can't divide by zero
Soviet calculator: aight bro let me try

panqueque

To avoid dividing by zero the Soviet calculator even learned English.

illusiveartgames

i did that once. then chernobyl happened.

LifeofBoris

The action of dividing by zero was so egregious, the calculator learned English

johnsmth

I have the exact same calculator (Электроника МК-61), though it barely works now. I got it from my uncle, and there were a lot of programs written on a sheet of paper in the case. One of them was a "Naval Battle" game, where you had to enter a random seed first, then put your one-cell ships via typing their coordinates in and running through the program, and finally exchange shots with the calculator, where it would give either a 0 (miss) or 1 (hit) and some random coords of its own shot. Every move took about two minutes for the calculator to compute, it was working really hard on deciding where to shoot next. :p

AAsriel

why was i somewhat expecting it to just burst into flames lmao

ThatJay

i love how it takes a couple seconds to say “error” like it wants you to become self aware of the expression you just asked it to evaluate

TUNA

man it actually looks more 'modern' than the calculators we use everyday at school

lordsiomai

I have an old Casio Personal-Mini from the mid-70's that will attempt to figure out how many times 0 goes into a number. It will start to count very quickly, and will continue to count until the batteries run out :)

billgaudette

The calculator knew only an American can try dividing by 0 and hence answers in English.

prasoon

"Ivan Ivanovich, why is the calculator saying EGGOG to me?"

rmngddd

Because "ERROR" is the actual data in the specific cells, there was amateur-like "science" called "eggogologia" (or yeggogologiya, "еггогология", for the obvious reason of similarity of "r" and "Г"), that was studying the undocumented capabilities of calculators. There were even publications in soviet magazine "Technika - Molodëżi" ("Техника - Молодёжи", "Tech - for Youths").

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