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| At 17:38 -0500 2/6/05, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
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| >tell the elementary school teachers to stop teaching long division.
| >After all .... we have already stopped teaching how to find
| the square
| >root of a mumber with a pencil and paper ..... It's now time to stop
| >teaching long division.
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| I'm not sure I agree with that.
I took it to be reducto ad absurdum
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Joel Rauber
Department of Physics - SDSU