21st February 2006, 6:56 PM
Indeed... How does this guy actually muddle through life? Does he just copy and paste all the numbers he deals with into some form and let something else do the math?
Get me right, I'm not against calculators. I LOVE those devices. I'm just saying one must have an understanding of what the calculator is DOING or they are being intellectually lazy, and en masse, that can only result in no more calculators for anyone.
Get me right, I'm not against calculators. I LOVE those devices. I'm just saying one must have an understanding of what the calculator is DOING or they are being intellectually lazy, and en masse, that can only result in no more calculators for anyone.
"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)