If you were ever bored enough in a maths class to turn a number on your calculator into a word you may possess only been scraping the surface. There is much more to this art than meets the eyeI own a Casio fx-85gt plus. It can perform 260 functions in less than a moment,it can command me when I've got a recurring decimal and it has a slide-on protective cover so that the buttons don't get pressed when it's in my bag. And even if the buttons enact get pressed, I've got two-way power – solar and battery so I'm sorted.
But as soon as I bought it I was disappointed. If I happened to be bored in a maths class, and typed out 0.1134,turned my calculator upside down and slid it across to a friend I wouldn't get so much as a smile. The numbers look too much like normal typeface. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com