At 17:33 +0200 on 08/10/2008, Thomas Berg wrote about Re:
California's COBOL payroll system:
====== Robert A. Rosenberg ====== wrote 2008-08-09 06:29:
At 11:43 AM -0500 on 8/6/08, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re:
California's COBOL payroll system:
When second-graders are permitted to use calculators for arithmetic
Something predicted over 60 years ago in a story by Science Fiction
Author Isaac Asimov. In his story, set in the far future, everyone
uses a Hand Calculator and the concept of being able to do
arithmetic by hand is not even imagined until a mathematical genus
reinvents arithmetic by studying the results produced by his Hand
Calculator.
That story is hilarious !
As prophetic since kids now often can not do simple math in their
heads. Also the part about the Military declaring the method "Top
Secret" and the result for the inventor/re-discoverer.
Thomas Berg
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