Sujet : Re: This FOSS Thang :-)
De : bowman (at) *nospam* montana.com (rbowman)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.advocacyDate : 23. Mar 2024, 21:19:24
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:39:27 -0500, Physfitfreak wrote:
I thought it was so everywhere around the world. We never used any
multiplication table. If numbers were greater than 9 we either logically
solved them in mind or did the actual multiplication with pen and paper
to get the results.
No, we memorized them. The pencil box was a gimmick and verboten in a
quiz. When numbers greater than 9 were introduced I misunderstood the
algorithm.
19 X
24
______
166
48
______
4966
It took the teacher a while to figure out what I was doing but she knew I
was doing it consistently since I got every example wrong.
Even through college it was slide rules, one step up from the pencil box.
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