"Elfs", "twelfs", "base 7", and similar garbage. Tom Lehrer's song didn't come to my attention till AFTER bad math phobia/hatred had set in, bigtime.
Why were they trying to teach NM to grade school kids, what on earth can you DO with it (practically speaking), and can any math whizzes here give me a VERY, VERY, VERY simple grade-school-level explanation (remember, math dummy here!) of how the $%#$# thing is **supposed** to work? I'm still wondering, years later.
Thanks, all!
2006-08-24
12:16:32
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samiracat
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