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sp332 on April 17, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: A calculator that only shows the answer after you ...

The patent covers how the calculator decides whether an answer is "reasonable".

eru on April 17, 2012 [–]

Instead they could ask for a range and an estimate of how likely you think that the actual answer is inside that range.

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