>I couldn't answer one single question using the calculator that those guys back then didn't have.
I have my father's old slide rule and the how-to textbook that you used with it. It's 100-odd pages of... playing with math.
Today we struggle to get negroes across the finish line of high school, and they barely know their math facts.
Meanwhile, in the mid 20th century, guys were juggling logarithms and trig by hand using sticks and the fluid language of math.
It's all gone terribly, terribly wrong.
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