At 11:43 AM -0500 on 8/6/08, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re:
California's COBOL payroll system:
When second-graders are permitted to use calculators for arithmetic
Something predicted over 60 years ago in a story by Science Fiction
Author Isaac Asimov. In his story, set in the far future, everyone
uses a Hand Calculator and the concept of being able to do arithmetic
by hand is not even imagined until a mathematical genus reinvents
arithmetic by studying the results produced by his Hand Calculator.
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