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GeneralHow much is that in real money? Pin
5teveH14-Feb-21 20:14
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Dom Sinclair14-Feb-21 22:03
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Mircea Neacsu14-Feb-21 21:08
Mircea Neacsu14-Feb-21 21:08 
Seriously, what's with this worship for mental arithmetic?

Growing up I always felt oppressed by my inability to do mental math. Specially in elementary school when my parents would point out to other kids that could multiply two or 3 digit numbers while I was still struggling with multiplication table. Relief came latter on, when I discovered geometry, algebra and all the other fine parts of math. I've managed to be gainfully employed and build fairly sophisticated things while still maintaining my hesitations about 7 times 8.

Don't get me wrong, I understand the value of having a large array of information and concepts at your disposal in your brain can help you solve complicated problems. It's just that I don't see where multiplications table fits in this picture.

Griff mentioned the slide rule; that's one thing I liked while growing up. It would give a rough idea what the answer was, without having to be too accurate.

If the world went downhill in the last 50 years, which I'm not sure it did, I don't think mental math skills are the root cause.
Mircea

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RantWhy you don't create callbacks or events that don't take a state value Pin
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