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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by tgv on Thursday November 21, 2024 @09:46AM (#42204776)
Strangely enough, you'd be hard pressed to find a mathematician who doesn't know what a square root is.

And I didn't mention genetics. Nature is complicated.

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by llm_trw on Thursday November 21, 2024 @09:51AM (#42204821)
You'd also be hard pressed to find one who doesn't know how to flush a toilet.

Neither trivia has anything to do with being good at mathematics as done by mathematicians.

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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by tgv on Thursday November 21, 2024 @11:20AM (#42205853)
Are you an LLM? You brought up the point of mathematicians not knowing what a square root is yourself. Anyway, the square root is is so many levels below maths as done by mathematicians, it's laughable.
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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by wholinator2 on Friday November 22, 2024 @11:25AM (#42215124)
It certainly is suspicious that their name starts, "llm"
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Re:Everyone is capable of, and can benefit from, mathematica... by blharr on Friday November 22, 2024 @05:23PM (#42217848)
Pretty sure you followed the thread wrong. They only mentioned the square root in response to you?
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