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Re:MIT Entrance exam (1869) by varjag on Friday December 03, 2010 @05:17AM (#1965340)
True, but it wasn't typical Russian school level in 1868.
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Re:MIT Entrance exam (1869) by migiale on Friday December 03, 2010 @06:28AM (#1965457)
check this out http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/BogdanovB... this is a painting from 1895 pupils were supposed to do calculations like the one on the blackboard in their heads, without any writing
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Re:MIT Entrance exam (1869) by varjag on Friday December 03, 2010 @08:11AM (#1965657)
It's not algebra, you wouldn't have gotten to MIT with that even back then.
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