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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by glitchc on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:37PM (#28205941)
My oldest friend was held back in kindergarten. That’s how I met him.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by kbelder on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @06:05PM (#28215394)
Of course he's your oldest friend; being held back, he's a year older than all your others.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by charles_f on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:10AM (#28206430)
My kid is 3.5 and he still believes that 10 comes after 8. I'm deeply worried now.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by kierkegaard7 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:57AM (#28206641)
Well, he's not wrong...
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by CRConrad on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:03AM (#28209969)
This is why you start your kids' acquaintance with computing in any OS but Windows.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by beardyw on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:39AM (#28208783)
He is just counting base 9. You need to catch up.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by jacobolus on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @01:27AM (#28206500)
Einstein didn’t speak until age 4, so your kid is probably too precociously verbal to be the world’s most famous physicist.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by andi999 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:31AM (#28207517)
Probably he had to think it through which first words were appropriate.
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Re:The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011) by jose-cl on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:21AM (#28206764)
nah, just let him/her play
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