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To: TigerPaw who wrote (57015)4/18/2022 12:06:38 PM
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towerdog

  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 98658
 
I hear ya...I managed to get into a pharmacology class before I had completed all my math prerequisites, and I would just do my crazy math on my scratch paper and give the answer on the test. My instructor thought I was cheating, and made me come into her office and do an oral test. She couldn't understand how I got the answers, but they were correct. I'm like an idiot/savant when it comes to algebra...but I do think anyone should be able to add 40 + 26.68 in their head. I wasn't making fun of this person, I just think it's sort of sad.



To: TigerPaw who wrote (57015)4/19/2022 11:47:25 PM
From: ajtj99  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 98658
 
Speaking of calculators, my first one was a National Semiconductor in 8th grade that solved problems via reverse Polish notation. Nobody understood how I was getting this thing to get answers. To me, it was just doing what it was programmed to do.
To multiply 7,338 x 3,817 you had to punch:

7338
Enter
3817
X

Then you'd get the answer.

That year, I discovered my math teacher wasn't that smart, as he drove through his home garage door while it was down.