>>13212182If the problem calls for exceedingly tedious or long calculations, why would a professor or teacher want to have their students waste time on the calculations instead of being able to put more questions in to test whatever material is actually at hand? Sometimes a professor might want the work shown to prove that a student knows what's going on, or to provide partial credit (or check where errors came from), but even then calculators are still used.
You will always have access to tools like calculators at a real job, there is no need to make students perform lengthy tedious calculations only by hand. The obvious exception imo is grade school where children should learn how arithmetic works without the aid of a calculator.
