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You're confusing maths with accounting. 30% is an intuition/familiarity, not knowledge.


I'm not confused. A calculator does arithmetic, not maths. The question was:

> Well, if everyone uses a calculator, how do we learn math?

Which doesn't make much sense, because a calculator doesn't do maths. So I answered the question that does make sense: if everyone uses a calculator, do we still learn arithmetic? And I believe we don't.

And then, if we suck at basic arithmetic, it makes it harder to be good at maths.




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