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7/3/2025, 2:07:40 AM
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I feel like way too much time is spent on tedium in grade school, killing the children's interest in the fundamental dynamism of the universe.
Understand what you are learning is a language and way of thinking and measuring the world, not merely "math." It is our tool we use, along with science, to reach out from our individual Platonic-cave like minds and bring in the outside world in ways our shadow-puppet-casting natural senses cannot. If there is a system of symbols which encodes the language of magick, it is only to be found in a mathematics class.
Buy a SwissMicros DM15L or DM41X, and learn math with that. Those calculators (HP-15C and HP-41CX clones) are as close to what an assembly programmer feels as you're going to get in calculators: they are 4 deep stack-register machines which take input in postfix form (RPN), meaning you put the input operand(s) (#s) on the stack then invoke your operator (+-*/...). This is superior to infix input because you will almost never write or store intermediary values to complete a calculation.
Program (it's stupid easy) on it to do numeric integration and solve. How do *you* encode a polynomial function so you can find zeroes, using keypress programming? If you learn how to competently explain the use of 95% of the DM15L, you will have the best introduction to your adult math education that I could think of.
Remember, math is a game: it's a set of rules and then consequent theorems. Math is nothing to fear, but ignorance of math is.
I feel like way too much time is spent on tedium in grade school, killing the children's interest in the fundamental dynamism of the universe.
Understand what you are learning is a language and way of thinking and measuring the world, not merely "math." It is our tool we use, along with science, to reach out from our individual Platonic-cave like minds and bring in the outside world in ways our shadow-puppet-casting natural senses cannot. If there is a system of symbols which encodes the language of magick, it is only to be found in a mathematics class.
Buy a SwissMicros DM15L or DM41X, and learn math with that. Those calculators (HP-15C and HP-41CX clones) are as close to what an assembly programmer feels as you're going to get in calculators: they are 4 deep stack-register machines which take input in postfix form (RPN), meaning you put the input operand(s) (#s) on the stack then invoke your operator (+-*/...). This is superior to infix input because you will almost never write or store intermediary values to complete a calculation.
Program (it's stupid easy) on it to do numeric integration and solve. How do *you* encode a polynomial function so you can find zeroes, using keypress programming? If you learn how to competently explain the use of 95% of the DM15L, you will have the best introduction to your adult math education that I could think of.
Remember, math is a game: it's a set of rules and then consequent theorems. Math is nothing to fear, but ignorance of math is.
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