-=> Quoting Kurt Weiske to Joe Mackey on 07-31-12  09:23 <=-

 KW> I renovated a house belonging to an old friend in his 90s. His kitchen
 KW> dated back to the 1960s. When I took out the cabinets to re-face them,
 KW> I found a sheet of butcher paper covered in longhand arithmetic - it
 KW> seems they measured and laid out the entire kitchen by hand.

I wouldn't be surprised.  No computer CAD programs back then...  :)

 KW> I'm old enough that pocket calculators just started showing up in
 KW> homes when I was in late elementary school. Longhand arithmetic was
 KW> still mandatory, but we were allowed to double-check our work. I'm glad
 KW> I was forced to do it all longhand; my first job in/out of college was
 KW> data entry in a general ledger system, and I could adding/subtract
 KW> columns with 30-40 entries more readily than people who were a few
 KW> years younger than I. 

It's certainly a useful skill.  :)  Never know when the calculator will
run out of battery power...  ;)  Keeps the mind supple, too... 

ttyl         neb

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