I never fully learned the multiplication tables in grade school. I was way too hyper as a kid. Nowadays, they probably would have given me Ritalin. Maybe I need it now... Amazingly, I became a mechanical engineer with a specialty in mathematical modeling. I memorized a few guideposts such as 6*8=48, so if you asked me what was 6*7, I'd do the arithmetic in my head that it was 48-6= da da: 42! Worse, for an Access developer, I was trained as a mechanical engineer meaning I had