Thanks everyone for the insight . I think i would enjoy both spots but for different reasons . Being already married I don ' t have to worry about which spot has the better girls . but that info is good to know regardless lol . I suppose with the two places being so close together if i were posted to Trenton , going to Kingston after hrs would be no issue at all . I have spent my whole career in Halifax so either spot would offer a change in sceneryroutine . Wearing cadpat for a change would be nice <| sep |> Breaking the number down to components makes sense when you try to truly understand what the notation ' 57 ' represents . It ' s a much more general way of thinking . It may seem like overkill when you can just easily add the two numbers together , but school should be teaching mathematical concepts , not rote computation methods . It ' s the answer to kids saying ' why should I learn how to add when I have a calculator ? ' Kids should be taught mathematics , not computation . No human will ever be better than a $ 5 calculator at computation . For example , if now someone says ' add 5743 assuming base 8 instead of base 10 '. If you don ' t really understand what ' 57 ' represents , you ' d have no clue . However , if you learned to breakdown ' 57 ' into its components , you can figure out how to do addition in any base without someone telling you how to do it .