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Déjà vu:
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Math isn’t for everybody.
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I’ve noticed after years of working with people whose focus isn’t math, that slipping by three or six decimal places is considered by them to be a minor error, easy to make and hard to notice.
This is why we all did story problems in our heads as kids. Right?
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If it was or effected their paycheck, they’d notice PDQ.
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{Everybody} \ {Math}
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This man’s brain divides by zero everyday
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To be fair, we all make mistakes, and she fessed up to doing so under public scrutiny.
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Good name for, anything.
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We’re just not very good at teaching practical math.
I’m going to guess the original person was treating millions like ‘apples’. Practical math users know that units cancel, like 8 foo / 4 foo = 2 (not 2 foo). But people who hate math and avoid it tend to think of the big numbers as kind of a decorator, like a color, because they don’t grasp it so 8 million / 4 million = ( 8 / 4 ) million = 2 million.
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