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Will they actually need to do pen and paper multiplication in real life? I'm not sure when anyone I know would need to, or if I even still could.

Is using a lookup table just as good/almost as good if nobody actually needs to do it fast in the field?

Can they just use base 10 for all multiplication, if multiplication isn't needed in whatever problem set this is optimized for that seems to have them so excited?



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