Found some documentation listing the two middle switches as the rounding switch (up fraction down) and the decimal switch (auto? 0 to 6 then hex?). No idea on the other two.
http://www.calcuseum.com/SCRAPBOOK/BONUS/32853/1.htm
Decimal switch: [A-0-2-3-4-6-F], Round switch: [(ArrowUp)-5/4-(ArrowDown)], Miscellaneous switch: [(Blank)-K .-(Sigma)],
“What’s up with your calculator, bruh? It says 2+2 equals infinity.”
“Did you set it to F?”
“Yeah. What’s F mean?”
“It means it’s Fucked.”
The right-most switch lets you turn on sigma mode.
I would assume that’s summation mode, so everything you enter is treated as a running total. This looks like a business calculator.
The first one lets you turn K on or off
K.
Damn, it worked.
No.
apology for poor english
when were you when svenska calculator post drop?
i was sat at home eating IKEA meatballs when notification ring
‘Calculator switch set to K’
‘no’
It’s an older copypasta sir, but it checks out.
Thanks, I already know no. means number
Some guesses by ChatGPT:
Left Switch (“K” setting):
- K: Likely for a “constant mode,” where the calculator uses one operand as a constant for repeated >calculations (e.g., multiplying several numbers by the same value).
- The other position is likely “normal mode,” disabling this feature.
Middle Switch (“A/2/4/6” etc.):
- This could control decimal rounding or precision:
- “A” might stand for “automatic” mode.
- “0, 2, 3, 4, 6” refers to the number of decimal places displayed or used in calculations.
- “F” likely stands for “full precision,” using all available decimal places.
Right Switch (“Σ” setting):
- Σ: Likely enables a “summation mode,” where the calculator automatically adds results to a running total (useful for bookkeeping or repetitive additions).
- The other position disables this mode.
Being Swedish the “constant mode” seems likely as we often used k (for “konstant”) in school math to represent a constant (e.g. for the slope of a line).
It seems to be right on the K switch. And yeah. Konstant makes sense.
The numbered switch seems to check out at least. Other than the F. F just gives me a single decimal. edit: no… Three…?
Not sure about the right switch. It adds an I in the upper right corner and it seems possible to flip between different calculation results. Maybe?
For checking F try typing in an irrational number. Like 22/7
did you just suggest a ratio as an irrational number?
Well he doesn’t have a pi button.
I wish I did but I ate a slice
I noticed that too, but they are coprime with one another and they aren’t divisible by or into 10, so they would definitely create repeating digits. Could’ve used 1/3 for the same effect though.
I just tried and it’s a pi approximation, which makes more sense.
Bold of you to mention chat gpt in a comment, I feel like any mention of it tends to get down voted to hell, even when it’s appropriately used as you did here
Those fucking things are great as tools to figure stuff out. Can’t trust them to be correct, but you can trust them to shoot the shit and dribble the ball to a destination which is unknowable to man
At least it can give you more precise questions to google to verify its output
People rarely do though. Like in this post.
