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From: tmy6405@acf3.NYU.EDU (Ted M. Young)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,comp.edu,rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Becoming CAI literate
Message-ID: <546@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Date: 25 Feb 88 22:37:44 GMT
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Summary: Society forgetting how to do simple math, portrayed in s-f

In article <4667@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes:
>
>"The Feeling of Power" is an old SF story (50's or earlier?) about a man
>who re-discovered how to do arithmetic in a society which had become
>completely dependent on its machines.  (Does anyone else remember this one-
>and remember the author?)
>--henry schaffer  n c state univ

From what I recall (me and my 1K of brain-RAM :-), that story was written
by Isaac Asimov.  I think the story had to do with the guy being able to
calculate trajectories of missiles, etc., then again, I might be mixing this
up with a similar story, so if anyone is *positive* I'd appreciate
confirmation, or otherwise.

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