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To: Crocodile who wrote (41740)11/14/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Edwarda  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
Hi, Croc! Laughing with appreciation at your story....

BTW, I was forever getting into trouble with "non-standard" proofs and the like. I remember being clocked on a calculus test for using analytic geometry to solve a problem. The guy who was tutoring me was aghast because he saw, as I did, that the solution I offered was faster and far more elegant. But it was not standard. So I did not major in math and go on to God knows what weirdness....



To: Crocodile who wrote (41740)11/14/1999 5:43:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Respond to of 71178
 
I solve math problems sort of the same way. If I can make a "picture," I can solve it. That quit working when I got to quadratic equations, which is where I bombed out. Wound up dropping out of high school. The only way I graduated college was by convincing the administration to let me substitute symbolic logic and computer programming for math.


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