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A comment on Ask HN: Apart from programming, how have you used algebra in the real world?.

Re:Ask HN: Apart from programming, how have you used algebra... by ithipster on Monday October 31, 2016 @11:31PM (#12843143)
you mean active use or passive use? passively you use it every second of your life of course.

actively you use it when navigating with a map&compass (yes, i am that old)

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Re:Ask HN: Apart from programming, how have you used algebra... by tagawa on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:26AM (#12844746)
Ah, of course - scales on maps! Thank you.
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