Well I majored in mathematics and I can't say I exactly recall the long division algorithm I was taught in high school either. I'm sure I could recreate it or something similar if I needed to. But that's the point - any time I've needed to divide two large digit numbers in the past 15 or so years I've used a calculator or computer because not only is it faster, it's also easier to verify correctness. People forgetting things they don't use isn't a bug of the brain, it's a feature (ugh, and now any time I use a "it isn't x, it's y" construction I worry about sounding like chatgpt). I'd only really be worried if I thought I'd lost the capacity to relearn long division. I haven't yet, have you?
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Well I majored in mathematics and I can't say I exactly recall the long division algorithm I was taught in high school either. I'm sure I could recreate it or something similar if I needed to. But that's the point - any time I've needed to divide two large digit numbers in the past 15 or so years I've used a calculator or computer because not only is it faster, it's also easier to verify correctness. People forgetting things they don't use isn't a bug of the brain, it's a feature (ugh, and now any time I use a "it isn't x, it's y" construction I worry about sounding like chatgpt). I'd only really be worried if I thought I'd lost the capacity to relearn long division. I haven't yet, have you?
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