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    From JOE MACKEY@1:135/392 to DARYL STOUT on Friday, November 26, 2021 06:35:30
    Daryl wrote --

    I'll never be as good as my late father was, but I can do quite
    a few calculations in my head.

    I worked with a fella one time who used an adding machine and then in his head a long list of figures.
    I asked him one time why he did it both ways and he replied he counted
    all the numbers to make sure the adding machine was right. :)
    Joe
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  • From Daryl Stout@1:2320/33 to JOE MACKEY on Friday, November 26, 2021 17:37:00
    Joe,

    I asked him one time why he did it both ways and he replied he
    counted all the numbers to make sure the adding machine was right. :)

    If you get fat finger syndrome, you're going to enter the wrong digits
    sooner or later, then you, the adding machine, or both, are wrong.

    But, without fat fingers, how do you pick up the food and the
    silverware??

    Daryl

    ... What is the sound of one hand clapping??
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