[r00fus]

I have been hearing this from my kids' teachers as well. They're moving to spending less time on time-consuming operations like long-form division (because calculators allowed on tests and relied on for even textbook exercises).

Not sure what to think of this - I always thought you had to learn/get proficient on the basics before delegating those to a machine...

[Animats]

There's a hand procedure for square root. It was once taught in schools. Few ever used it, even before computers. If you really needed square root, people used tables or a slide rule. Manual long division has reached that point.

Computers don't do division that way, anyway.