tmy6405@acf3.NYU.EDU (Ted M. Young) (02/26/88)
In article <4667@ecsvax.UUCP> hes@ecsvax.UUCP (Henry Schaffer) writes: > >"The Feeling of Power" is an old SF story (50's or earlier?) about a man >who re-discovered how to do arithmetic in a society which had become >completely dependent on its machines. (Does anyone else remember this one- >and remember the author?) >--henry schaffer n c state univ From what I recall (me and my 1K of brain-RAM :-), that story was written by Isaac Asimov. I think the story had to do with the guy being able to calculate trajectories of missiles, etc., then again, I might be mixing this up with a similar story, so if anyone is *positive* I'd appreciate confirmation, or otherwise. -- Ted M. Young \ tmy6405@acf3.nyu.edu 3801 Hudson Manor Terrace (#4h) / tmy6405@NYU-ACF3.ARPA (I think) Riverdale, NY 10463-1111 \ CIS: 76703,4343 (forever, I hope :-) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "With Basic you just use a GOTO, with Pascal you have to indent 99% of the program halfway across the page!" -- Me (A Basic programmer for 12 years) ===========================================================================