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[–] [email protected] 66 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Mental arithmetic is all little tricks and shortcuts. If the answer is right then there's no wrong way to do it, and maths is one of the few places where answers are right or wrong with no damn maybes!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Unsolved problems do not all fall into binary outcomes. They can be independent of axioms (the set of assumptions used to construct a proof).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I like your funny words, mathemagic man

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