Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!djl From: djl@fisher.UUCP (Dan Levin N6BZA ) Newsgroups: net.college,net.flame Subject: Re: Does someone REALLY belive this? Message-ID: <394@fisher.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Nov-84 00:23:09 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.394 Posted: Sat Nov 10 00:23:09 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Nov-84 10:18:23 EST References: <1668@ucf-cs.UUCP>, <605@whuxlm.UUCP> <624@watdcsu.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Statistics Lines: 15 Xref: princeton net.college:113 net.flame:1441 On the subject of losing arithmetic skills, read Asimov's story about the guy who reinvents multiplication by hand, in 2100. They (the powers that be) quickly silence this poor fellow, since the ability to do math in your head would allow a person, much more expendable than an expensive computer, to fly a guided missile. Wow. Really makes you think. I do not remember the title, but I think this story appears in 'The Best of Asimov, Book 1 (or 2).' -- ***dan {allegra,astrovax,princeton,twg}!fisher!djl The misplaced (What *are* those trees doing??) Californian