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Well if it's not about what we are using now but what will teach a kid to know roughly how big some numbers are, we could always ban calculators in favor of slide rules.

What I mean, I guess, is that calculators are by their nature supposed to eschew estimation for the sake of simplicity. Porting estimation back into them seems like a mistake.



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