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I think it's more than possible, it's just a fact these days. Being able to know how to search efficiently is probably the most important "life skill" people living in modern societies need to have. I remember back when I was in grade school, the standard response to "why can't I use a calculator" was "what if you need to solve a problem like this some day and you don't have a calculator."

It made a certain amount of sense back then. Nobody carried a calculator with them everywhere, feature phones hadn't yet been invented (let alone smartphones), and the Internet wasn't a "thing" that the average person had any clue about.

Today though, it's a ludicrous response.

I agree with all of this, but I'd say even back then, it was kind of a dumb response. In what situation other than an academic setting would you "need" to solve a problem like this where you wouldn't be allowed to use all the tools necessary? If your job involves calculations, no employer will prevent you from using a calculator, even back when we didn't all have one in our pockets. They were still easily obtained. I'm sure every office had plenty back then.

No one's going to hold a gun to your head and be like "factor this binomial, if you pull out a calculator it's over."