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Friday, October 28, 2005

Irrationality considered harmful

“I refuse to deal with irrational numbers until they've calmed down,” says one Jeff Schult, who claims that math is a cult.

Read the whole article. I hope it doesn’t represent what Weston students think about math.

We shouldn’t use the words “irrational” and “imaginary” to describe numbers.

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