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>From: hillyard@msc.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: Biological Sex Differences? ("Women only" excusable ?)
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>From article <1992Sep9.113300.26750@techbook.com>, by szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo):
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> 
> If you need too attend to a calculator for every hex translation and
> every order-of-magnitude memory estimate, you're dead meat.
> Furthermore, setting up the problem properly is most of the battle, and
> not helped by a calculator.
> 
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But setting up the problem is not arithmetic, and since it is 'most of 
the battle' it means that arithmetic is not particularly important to
CS, which is what you said.

SEH


