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To: Kaslin
Yeah, let's throw handwriting on the ash-heap along with Shakespeare, American History and multiplication tables.

And BTW I taught myself to use an abacus when I was a child. It's not easy to explain why but that knowledge made octal and hexadecimal addition and subtraction as simple for me as normal decimal arithmetic.

ML/NJ

26 posted on 12/23/2016 5:30:33 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

I just changed out the batteries in my slide-rule.


34 posted on 12/23/2016 5:35:02 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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