On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:58:53 -0000, "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:37:41 -0000, "Glenn Booth"
wrote:

Hi,

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
.. .

Addition an subtraction are for A level. Multiplication and division
are now optional post grad modules.

With a calculator, naturally.


No other way is currently known - post doc research is underway.

Meanwhile, the term "mental arithmetic", having fallen into disuse,
has been stolen by the medical industry and refers to a head count
in a psychiatric hospital.

What would today's 18 year olds make of a slide rule?

My Faber Castell Novo-Duplex would probably make a nice table
ornament, but my Otis King would be a decent match for those
extensible batons the piggies now use! :-)
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