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Hornbein
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I can do basic math in my head. I feel this gives me advantage over people who rely on calculators. I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.
Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.Hornbein said:I can often sense when something has gone wrong with numbers.
Sometimes I am shocked by basic math errors in the New York Times, The Economist, and even from the World Bank. I suspect that the great majority of Congressmen are innumerate.gmax137 said:Me too. Decades in nuclear power, "verifying" calcs done by others. First pass: does this even make sense? Second pass: are the inputs correct? Third pass: check the arithmetic line-by-line. Goal: do pass three one time only.