Talk:Calculator spelling

message: I removed the "no offensive" words warning, since wikipedia is not censored for the protection of minors.  --Interiot 07:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Not censored

message: For permanance in case paperlined.org goes away, the regular expression used is "^[izehsglbo]*\([izehsglb]\|[izehsglb]o\)$".  I don't want to include it in the article body, because Wikipedia is not an instruction manual, but it's worth noting somewhere.  --Interiot 08:00, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Regular expression

message: I know when I was a kid (maybe about 1975) a teacher loaned me a book of riddles that involved solving problems on a calculator to eventually generate a word to view upside-down. I have no idea of the title, but if anyone can think of it, it would be useful to add as a reference. Probably long out of print. Paul R. Potts 16:07, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You know, I remember something similar ... possibly in a school library somewhere ... buggered if I know anything more about it, but I agree it would be a good reference. Confusing Manifestation 01:37, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can Anyone Find References to a Calculator Riddle Book? 

message: Should no reference be made to spelling on scientific calculators (those with brackets and sin and cos &c.). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elkrobber (talk • contribs) 22:49, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Calculators 

message: Should be a reference to the classical SHELL OIL joke that was very popular in the 1970's / early 1980's in the U.S.  It goes something like "If 142 Israelis and 154 Arabs are fighting over 69 acres of land for 5 days, who won?"  To get the answer, you multiply 14215469 by 5, so that 71077345 appears, turn the calculator upside down, and on 7-segment displays it appears as "ShEll OIl".
Here's an apparent reference which shows up in Google (I haven't seen the article): "The Electronic Pocket Calculator: Joke 1:" by Lois A. Monteiro
Western Folklore, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan., 1976), p. 75 -- AnonMoos 10:44, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone wants that joke in the article, I can verify that the aforementioned article is about the Shell Oil joke, and the statement above accurately reflects the joke as described by the article. Personally, I don't think that the joke belongs, but I'll not remove it if someone adds it. --Sopoforic 04:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually, it appears as "ShELL OIL". -- 12.116.162.162 (talk) 16:09, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Shell Oil"

message: The image shown does not portray all of the characters mentioned in the previous paragraph. Cbdorsett 08:05, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix image please 

message: I've made some merchandise for the Wikipedia store based on this article: [www.cafepress.com/wikipedia/2585590 Calculator writing] section. Let me know what you think on the meta page. Tlogmer ( talk / contributions ) 01:04, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just got back from the wikipedia store, I would like a t-shirt. But I could not believe they have 20+ items featuring "hELL0" printed on them. Who the fuck would want such a t-shirt or sweater? What does it have to do with wikipedia? (They say because it is from a notable wikipedia article, give me a break!). Having 20+ products with "hELL0" printed on them, offered as a wikipdeia product, wins the Absurdity of the Year Award for 2008. Congratulations! --Jon in California, 4 Jan 2008.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.73.9 (talk) 04:14, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article in the Wikipedia store 

message: I mean really L looks like 7 NO T DOES more 80% of those don't look anything like the numbers under them at all.Prolar Pie=Anti-Noob&and Newb-Helper 20:19, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thats just stupid looking 

message: I (temporarily?) removed the passage "Spelling with Nixie tubes is less effective because the display is not as readable when upside-down", simply because I'm not very familiar with 7seg displays being implemented with Nixie tubes --- wouldn't that really be pointless, insofar as Nixies can (and most often/almost always do) beautifully display ordinarily shaped (curved) numerals? --Wernher 18:53, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seven-seg Nixie tubes? 

message: http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070930&mode=classic
Atlant 13:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homage to calculator spelling in ''User Friendly'' 

message: As someone else noted above, the image Beghilos.svg is incomplete. It lacks the six.  
Wanderer57 (talk) 23:32, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Can anybody tell me what the point of this article is? It has no sources whatsoever, and no assertion of importance. Wikidan829 (talk) 20:27, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No inline citations does not mean there are no sources. You didn't have a good look at the article. If it's notable, it doesn't really matter if it's not important. Who determines importance, anyway? Just because you feel that way about the article doesn't mean everyone else does, or should. --Pwnage8 (talk) 22:06, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this? 

message: 530477351 spells "I sell hoes". Pimping, if you will.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.215.40 (talk) 00:48, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: "Upside-down A has no recognizable correspondence to any standard Latin letter." Erm... what about "V"!--Coin945 (talk) 04:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query 

message: Please note that there are many regional variants. This is for CASIO fx-82MS (incidentally the one I've got at home).
:A = A
:B = B
:C = C
:D = D
:E = E or e
:F = F
:G = g (the gon sign)
:H = X
:I = 1
:J = 6
:K = (usually avoided as there is no simple representation. If necessary use C, the combinations symbol.)
:L = 7
:M = M
:N = π
:O = 0
:P = P (permutations symbol)
:Q = 0- (because of this spaces are represented by . (decimal point).)
:R = r (the radian sign)
:S = 5
:T = +
:U = ()
:V = \/-- (square root sign)
:W = \/--\/-- (double square root sign)
:X = x (times sign)
:Y = Y
:Z = 2
:? = -!
:! = !
Thanks, 23191Pa (chat me, but mind the alphas!) 13:35, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific calculator spelling 

message: I'm confused about the wording in this passage: the character Plankton tests a formula that turns anything it touches into a baby on his computer "wife." When it works in turning her into a calculator. Is this saying that the formula turns anything it touches into a baby that's stored in Karen, his computerized "wife?" I'm updating the passage to say "computerized" instead of "computer" because I think that makes more sense, but I'm not entirely sure. άλφα7248Talk 21:10, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsure about the meaning of this passage