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Re:Many elementary teachers don’t understand math, and it ma... by klyrs on Saturday November 30, 2019 @11:05AM (#21670503)
I'm a mathematician, not a calculator. Mathematicians spawned an entire field, computer science, to alleviate the tedium of computation!

Back when I thought I was going to be an engineer, I went through a brief phase of doing everything by hand. Indeed, my brain is capable of "rapid" arithmetic, but it requires practice and discipline to achieve and maintain what amounts to a billion-time slowdown.

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