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From: darin@laic.UUCP (Darin Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,comp.sys.next,comp.sys.mac,comp.cog-eng
Subject: Re: One Step... (long!)
Message-ID: <396@laic.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 03:26:19 GMT
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In article <530@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>Hmm.... I don't know about you, but more often than not, I'd rather
>have a note pad and a pencil than anything else. It's usually pretty
>difficult to get simple arithmetic done quickly on a computer keyboard,
>particularly without a desk calculator type program always accessible.

How about using a light pen to draw out number on top of each other, and
then when you draw the magic line under the group, they automatically
get added together (unless you put a -, x, / next to them).  All the
advantages of paper and pen, except you don't have to do the actual
arithmetic.  If you're a stickler for detail, the computer can put in
the carry marks in your own handwriting.

-- 
Darin Johnson (leadsv!laic!darin@pyramid.pyramid.com)
	"You can't fight in here! This is the war room.."