Definitely not (and I went to college when I was one of the few students who arrived with his own computer). Our chemistry teacher spent one class showing us ho

Definitely not (and I went to college when I was one of the few students who arrived with his own computer). Our chemistry teacher spent one class showing us how to use Newton's approximation, and most students found it a complete waste of time, given that everybody had a pocket calculator of some kind. (Of course, I learned how to calculate square roots on paper before I went to college, but only because I asked my father to show me how.)