Hi Ben, I'm a boatless lurker on this list, but I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your contributions! And, I fully support your disappointment at the state of modern society and its incapacity for arithmetic and its low standard of literacy :-)
I'm old... Best regards, Tony, Toulouse, France On 2011-02-22 21:22, Ben Okopnik wrote: > Unfortunately, this is all 35 years or so behind me, and I couldn't even > begin to do any useful work on an abacus today. My mental math skills > have also deteriorated to a tiny percentage of what they once were (and > that was at the ripe old age of 13.) Even so, I'm often shocked by > people being amazed at how quickly I can calculate certain things... to > me, that's just "natural", simple math, and something that "everyone > just knows". Except not. Which is actually pretty awful, now that I > think about it. Math, like chess, is a great tool for maintaining mental > acuity no matter how old you get, and losing it - or not having it in > the first place - is an absolutely terrible thing. > > But that may just be my outdated viewpoint. > > > Ben _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
