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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:24am on 2013-02-26

"Nothing shows the lack of mathematical education more clearly than excessive accuracy in calculating." -- German mathematician and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss (b. 1777-04-30, d. 1855-02-23)

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posted by [personal profile] pickledginger at 01:28pm on 2013-02-26
Oh, yes!
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posted by [identity profile] doubleplus.livejournal.com at 08:58pm on 2013-02-27
As my college roommate (now a tenured math professor at MIT) liked to quote from one of his professors, "if you can get a numerical answer, it's not math, it's arithmetic."
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