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   feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 23:41:02 JST feld

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   • Pete Wright
   They said "you won't always have a calculator around"
   
   I had this
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     Pete Wright (pete_wright@nlogic.systems)'s status on Saturday, 12-Aug-2023 23:41:03 JST Pete Wright

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     @MostlyHarmless @futurebird I used to complain as a kid “why do I need to memorize multiplication tables, I’ll have a calculator when I grow up.”
     
     Wonder if kids do the same but with excel these days heh.
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     I get the joke here... but also... To really use excel you need to know a little about boolean logic, and computer programming. excel is practically a complete programing language and a powerful environment for processing information.

     The graph in this meme should just keep going up.

     I mean at minimum it should be on a level with algebra. How can you use a spreadsheet and not get variables?

     (I wish we had quote tweet so bad, but follow up to see what I mean)

     #mathematics