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Or a calculator. Oh wait, I hard ban my 8 and 11 year old kids from using a calculator. I wonder why.


That... is not a good idea.

Inexpensive calculators were relatively new when I was that age, and I learned so much just playing with them.


What exactly did you learn?


Among other things, I learned that I was really, really into computing machinery.


(I also learned that a lot of people on Hacker News have absolutely no business on a site called 'Hacker News.')


I did repeatedly hack my university though. But you are of course free to leave :)




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