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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by grogenaut on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:02PM (#13553415)
What if they have an computer with no games and no internet.

As to your response... Should inmates be deprived of all distractions, especially trivial ones? How often do you BuzzFeed or candy crush or Facebook?

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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by kzisme on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:43PM (#13553829)
I would assume they would being writing. That would likely be the first step most would take. After that their abilities in mathematics, or just a general interest in problem solving would take them pretty far (barring games and internet)
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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by Hydraulix989 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @02:03PM (#13553424)
> How often do you BuzzFeed or candy crush or Facebook?

I'm definitely an outlier here, sample size one. :-)

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Re:To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics by grogenaut on Thursday February 02, 2017 @03:22PM (#13554271)
So all day cc or never
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