(January 17, 2017 at 12:39 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: It's bad enough that many people have forgotteon how to do fractions, but the fact that somehow 132*64 is easier for people to calculate than 1/3+1/4 astonishes me to no end.
That's only because they know how to punch 132*64 into a calculator.
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