My father, who was trained in engineering at M. I. T. in the slide-rule era, often lamented the way the pocket calculator, for all its convenience, diminished my generation's math skills.

我的父亲，在幻灯片统治时代，他在麻省理工学院接受工程教育，经常感叹由于袖珍计算器带来的便利性，削弱了我这一代人的数学能力。

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It sounds interesting, but I only want a plain calculator. I don "t want my manager to think that I" m playing games during work.

听起来很有趣，但是我只想一台单纯的电子计算器。我不希望经理以为我在上班的时候玩游戏。

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You can bring any calculator you want, we don't actually have restrictions for calculator types here, but what you can't do, is you can't program any relevant chemical or information about constants in there.

你可以带你想用的任何一种计算器，我们并不限制计算器的类型，但是有一点是不允许的，那就是你不能使用编程的功能来记录,相关的化学常数或其它信息。

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And other classes are completely closed book. You can't bring anything into it, even a calculator, so.

而有些课的考试是完全闭卷考试。考试时什么都不能带，甚至计算器都不行。

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As you know, the correct answer is 9.8, but we don't want to use the calculator now so we'll call it -10.

当然大家都知道,事实上应为9.8,但我们目前不想用计算器,所以我们就取-10

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