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Frequently Asked Questions[]
Q. Is there anything particularly dull that is, in fact, omnipresent -- in daily use, even?
A. We all use math every day.
Q. Every day, at some point or another, I need to rely upon arithmetic. Does this make me a freak?
A. We all use math every day.
Q. My friends and I tried to go cold turkey and have a math-free Tuesday last week... but we failed miserably. What gives?
A. We all use math every day.
Q. I really enjoy math. I mean, I really enjoy it. It'll be the middle of the night, and I'll totally be jonesin' for a quick hit of integration by parts or some hot Fourier approximation action, and man, can't nothin' stop me from plunging my ink-engorged pen onto my legal pad and calculatin' all night long. But as soon as my equations are solved? And there's no more calculatin' to be done? Man, I just shove them equations into my desk drawer and don't even think about them -- not until my body's got that numerical itch again, anyway. I mean... is that cool? Is this OK, the way I treat math like my bitch an' shit?
A. We all use math every day.