Re:Sal Khan responds to critic
by delinka on Friday July 27, 2012 @12:36PM
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In math, is not accurate to say the "definition" and the "calculation" are one in the same? Sometimes we require ambiguous non-math language to start understanding a concept but ultimately, once understanding has happened, the calculation and the definition are identical.
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Definition and technique to calculate are not the same thing. Consider integer division, which is defined by an equation, but calculated by an incremental long division algorithm.
Most definition use a phrase like "such that", which says nothing at all about calculating.