Arthur quoted the abstract of a paper by Andrew Odlyzko:
> During the Internet bubble, for example, large classes of them first
> became unable to comprehend compound interest, and then lost even
> the ability to do simple arithmetic, to the point of not being able
> to distinguish 2 from 10.
Cough, cough....
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand
binary arithmetic and those who don't.
Sorry. I seem to be having a hard time keeping up with the
conversation but I couldn't pass that up.
- Mike
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