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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;proofartoncircs, post: 1010357, member: 25952&quot;]<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&lt;&lt;Yeah, makes you sad. What the heck DO they teach kids in school? I learned to count back change I think in the 4th grade.&gt;&gt;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">I graduated in 1953.&nbsp; I had never learned how to make change there.&nbsp; Heck, I didn&#039;t even know the alphabet.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">When I had to make change, I found counting up from the total was a miracle in its simplicity and ease.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">The alphabet I finally learned a few years after college when I worked with Hollerith code.&nbsp; Only now I expect to find a slash between R and S.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">In 1960, I was using an abacus to add up 8 place logarithms at work.&nbsp; My boss&#039; boss congratulated me on using a digital computer instead of an analogue slide roule.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;</span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><br /></span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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