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If it was only about the speed of operation we wouldn't need mathematicians as soon as we invented the calculator


We might still have mathematicians, but there was a job that was eliminated by calculators:

Calculators!

We have over time abstracted away the hard-for-people-easy-for-computers tasks to the point often people just do the hard-for-computers stuff, like interpretation of results, and coordination of next steps




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