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Arithmetic Ripples

5/30/77

As Robby and Miriam came in from play for a little refreshing juice, I heard from the kitchen the squabbling one expects of near-aged siblings:

Miriam	I can add big numbers.
Rob	Oh brother!
Miriam	I can. I can do one thousand and thirty five plus two thousand.
Rob	Easy.
Miriam	No. Three thousand and thirty five.

When I asked Miriam later where she got those numbers for adding, she replied, “From the adding you and I did the other day.”

Relevance

These incidents document the ways computation crops up in Miriam’s world.