Alicorn comments on The Great Brain is Located Externally - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 26 June 2009 05:55:43AM *  1 point [-]

The wetware is also highly convenient. Sans Palm Pilot, I don't have a calculator with me everywhere I go. It would be useful to me once or twice a day if I could do arithmetic in my head without messing up nine times out of ten.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 26 June 2009 08:56:44AM 0 points [-]

There's a procedure you can learn for that, at least for the simple stuff.

Comment author: Alicorn 26 June 2009 03:37:10PM 0 points [-]

I learned chisanbop in the third grade, presented a report on it to my math class, and promptly forgot about it.