Math Alert

[mafiabass]

I guess I can ramble a bit about some math stuff. A couple of weeks ago at the card shop, a friend of mine was talking about a couple math problems he was given as part of a phone interview. The first was about the hands of a clock. How many times do the hour and minute hand overlap in the course of a day on a 12 hour clock? We talked about it, and

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[mythicfox]

If someone taught you how to do square roots by hand, then it must have been in college. High school (and lower) math doesn't teach this since we're assumed to have calculators. I know it's possible by slide rule, but they don't teach those in high schools either.