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Originally Posted by island911
+1 to Flieger (never seen anything like that)
fwiw, I've always maintained that the problem with math is that it is usually taught by math majors. --they get in to useless math games. I would hate math if it were not for engineering teachers demonstrating the power of math in application. (a tool)
To put it another way, math is but a language for representing quantifiable relationships. Essentially, equations are sentences, with math syntax, which model relations. Math geeks, however, get into the structure of the syntax and completely lose sight of application. Thus, they create ridiculously useless syntax puzzles like above.
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I totally agree. I was so confused in high school by the attention to syntax that I thought I was bad at math. Cured by taking physics with calculus where suddenly math was a tool to figure stuff out. I think the folks that geek out about math syntax are teachers because they're otherwise unemployable!