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Maybe he was trying to figure out a way to remember the phone number. As I grow older, my memory fades, but my mental computing ability remains undiminished. I can't remember anyone's phone number, but I can remember, for example, that my hunting buddy Keith's phone number is a concatenation of two
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Knowledge article on an abstract
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