In my opinion you should know how that algorithm works, so that if necessary you could program it, and it will be computer's job to calculate, ", 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192, 16384, 32768 and so on." but you should know how to tell it to do it.
I believe that this question is really a good one.