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Things your kids will never know - old school tech!
Lashiec:
Does once having learned, but long since forgotten, how to extract square and cube roots without a calculator count? If so, I guess I'm old, too :(
-Darwin (November 09, 2008, 04:40 PM)
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Yeah, it's one of the things kids should never be exposed to, brrrr! That, and how to check if the mathematical product of two numbers is correct. I remember doing it once when I was 10, and just because I finished the assigned work earlier than my classmates, so I was assigned something else. My god, it took me more than one hour!
J-Mac:
I can still extract square roots manually very easily! Once a few nuns beat it into you, you never forget! :o
Jim
Shades:
@J-Mac:
How many of those square roots did those nuns beat into you?
I mean, if you still can extract them till this day... ;) ;D
J-Mac:
All of 'em!
Jim
CleverCat:
Heliographs
Semaphore
Mores code
Used all of 'em to talk to and fro' when I was a kid.
[edit] I thought I'd typed "Morse".
Now I think of it, mores code seems also to be of the past. :)
-cranioscopical (November 08, 2008, 10:01 PM)
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Too true!
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