Comment by bsder
3 hours ago
> Calculators are deterministically correct given the right input. It does not require expert judgement on whether an answer they gave is reasonable or not.
That's not actually true. The HP-12C calculator is still the dominant calculator in business schools 45 years later precisely because it did take expert judgement to determine whether certain interest and amortization calculations were reasonable.
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