2026-07-11 16:02 UTC
@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz As an adult I learned to write a nice italic hand, which is much handsomer than the hideous Palmer style that primary school was trying to teach me.
The point still stands: learning to type was much more valuable to me, and perhaps also to the university professors who had to read my papers, which I typed rather than handwriting.
A reasoned response to the calculator argument is needed, and mockery is not it.
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@jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz 2026-07-11 16:20
@mjd@mathstodon.xyz I don’t agree about the calculator. It never took much reason to (1) argue that calculation is not the heart of maths, (2) calculators are a useful tool with well-circumscribed range of reliability, and (3) it is nonetheless useful for some people to be good at manual calculation. See? I did it in a tweet.