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knowing long division does not help you make the calculator do division better.
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Understanding math absolutely makes a calculator more useful to you though.

and if you work that into the parent's analogy you get the point I was making

Apologies. I misread the comment to which you replied and gave them unwarranted credit for not making the same tired point about calculators.



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