krw wrote:

I can't imagine that at tech school, in particular, would
spend time on such things [...]

They teach it here at many levels. At the university perhaps
theory-only by now.

I did it year one at "gymnasiet" which maybe equals your
"Sophomore year" [1] - don't remember much, mostly the sliding
ruler set we used. And a very thin disc with holes to do
precision erasing

Sorry for improvised (incorrect) terminology...
please correct.

[1] https://www.flashback.org/t504129

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