====== Robert A. Rosenberg ====== wrote 2008-08-09 06:29:
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.
That story is hilarious ! :)
Thomas Berg
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