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Old 02-04-2016, 12:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Angakuk View Post
As a child I was a victim of the "new math". I remember that they had us learning to count and work problems in base 5. It ruined me for math ever after. If they were going to make us learn to do math in something other than base 10 they could at least have taught us to speak binary. With that in my toolbox maybe I could have learned how to communicate with our robot overlords in their native language.
In college I was required to take Math 101 which was the most basic math there was, I had much more advanced Math in HS and was accepted as a Math major at another college. The course was so easy for me that one day I went to class and fell asleep at the start of the class, woke up close to the end of class when the assistants were passing out quizzes on the days lesson. I figured out the lesson from the questions on the quiz and "aced" the quiz.
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