[nunez]

People who make that retort forget that the calculator was immensely helpful but _also_ antiquated the need for mental math, which in my opinion is a bad thing. (Everyone should be able to calculate 5% and 10% of numbers, given how easy it is to do)

[johnisgood]

Well, I suppose many people do not know of these "mental math tricks".

To get 10% of a number, just move the decimal left: 10% of 40 -> 4.0.

To get 5% of this number, get 10% first, then halve it. It is the half of 10%, which in this case would be 2.0.

If you want to do this on a computer / calculator, you simply do: 40 * 0.10 for 10% or 0.05 for 5%. I was a very young kid when I learned to do this on a calculator, and I absolutely loved it!

[nunez]

Exactly, but when you learn math by calculator, you don't learn these tricks, which brings us to today, where tipping calculators rank pretty well on app stores.

[colejohnson66]

What makes tipping calculators even crazier is that your phone already has a calculator.