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Right? Carriage return-space-line feed, because it doesn't even adhere to the norms of left justification...

I was terrible at showing my work as a kid because my columns never lined up.

The brain can't afford the larger coefficient on a O(logN) operation; kludgey heuristics can be more efficient, deployed selectively.

Computers also shift bits left or right when they multiply or divide by powers of two, right?

used to discuss this in college: in theory, professor would ask question, you'd think, then give answer. But no: we use pen+paper..