I remember a science fiction story. Some undisclosed time in the future there was a University Mathematics Professor who was dismissed as a charlatan because he claimed he had discovered a way to do long division without an electronic calculator which everyone knew was imposible.

Do they still teach long division in school? Not so silly a question, even when I was in highschool they had dropped teaching how to extract roots. Use a slide rule or a table they said.

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