This. I'm a mathematician with 25000+ rep on Math.StackExchange and I literally cannot perform grade school long divhttps://twitter.com/gravislizard/status/706874261969903616 …
@Monophylos @gravislizard Sure, but I'm not sure I want to put myself in any position where I require precision in the absence of tools
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@EmilyGorcenski@gravislizard That's true, though paper does allow for an arbitrary degree of achievable precision, given sufficient time -
@Monophylos
@EmilyGorcenski well, sufficient time and skill and memory. you p.much have to perform a calculation 3x to be sure of it. -
@Monophylos
@EmilyGorcenski first time you might have made a mistake. so calculate again. if they're different, you need a tiebreaker. -
@Monophylos
@EmilyGorcenski god forbid the third calculation is yet a third value because you have ADD and keep dropping digits. -
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@EmilyGorcenski OH and let's not forget that, again, on-paper math of all types is unfairly punishing to people with ADD -
@gravislizard@EmilyGorcenski Not sure what to say. I have awful focus usually but working math on paper is one of the few things I CAN do. -
@Monophylos
@gravislizard It's not a worthless talent, but it is not magically valuable somehow. Just 1 of a million skills kids need today
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