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Re^3: The most useless key on my keyboard is Num Lock

by Nkuvu (Priest)
on Nov 18, 2005 at 12:59 UTC ( [id://509886]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in thread The most useless key on my keyboard is:

I'm a programmer, Jim, not an accountant.
And you've never had to enter a table of numbers into a program?
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Re: The most useless key on my keyboard is Num Lock
by jonadab (Parson) on Nov 18, 2005 at 21:11 UTC
    Well, being a math major I could say "Yes, all the time", but not in the way you meant, no. I've had to enter plenty of tables that correlate numbers with other data, but there the numbers are intermixed with strings or other stuff.

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