Just had a high school student ask me how to figure the square root of 169. Being "old school," I know what the square root of 169 is, because I had to do all that basic math stuff without a calculator so many times that I just know those sorts of things.
So, trying to be helpful, I asked "What is the square root of 100?" She didn't know. So, I told her. Then I asked "How much is 20 times 20?" She said she couldn't do it without a calculator, but she thought it was somewhere around 120. A big thank-you going out to the elementary school teachers here in Utah. You've created a whole generation of what I call "button pushers." Now, someone call me an idiot.
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