25th August 2016, 8:15 AM
Here's a place we can admit we don't know something everyone else seems to have mastered as kids.
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Every time I have the need to know where a letter falls alphabetically, I need to mentally run through the alphabet in my head (in song form) to remember it. Except for obvious ones, like "A" or "Z".
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Every time I have the need to know where a letter falls alphabetically, I need to mentally run through the alphabet in my head (in song form) to remember it. Except for obvious ones, like "A" or "Z".
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)