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Re:Ask HN: Independent Math Study by jknupp on Sunday July 19, 2009 @03:03AM (#712700)
>In the real world, problems can't be solved analytically...

Your other suggestions notwithstanding, you and I live in a very different "real world" my fried.

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Re:Ask HN: Independent Math Study by slackenerny on Sunday July 19, 2009 @06:11AM (#712819)
real world

Tell that to physicists “renormalizing”† it over and over all days long…

† I almost forgot not everyone on HN may know what that is, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renormalization

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Re:Ask HN: Independent Math Study by TriinT on Sunday July 19, 2009 @03:40AM (#712728)
If you can solve your problems analytically, then you're either working in a blessed field, or you're working with simplistic models...
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