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Algebra! Calculus! Geometry! Arithmetic! Unspeakable words and numbers guaranteed to strike fear, anxiety, [[Paranoia Fuel|paranoia]], [[Go Mad from the Revelation|madness]], and [[Heroic BSOD|paralysis]] into the hearts of everyone. Mathematics, especially the more advanced courses, easily appears to be terrifying, largely theoretical, [[Mind Screw|mindscrewy]], or just downright [[Mind Rape|mind-rapingly]] [[Eldritch Abomination|eldritch]]. Most people claim to be bad at it, even though some of them are good at math, they just fear it. If anybody is ever going to skip a class, it'll be math (or gym, although that one's pretty much simply and entirely down to the [[Jerk Jock]]s, [[Sadist Teacher]], or the students just being [[Brilliant but Lazy]]).
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Probably occurs because [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]. Alternatively, the boredom and hatred the writer had for math may ''cause'' [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]. Even more alternatively, people who show talent and interest for math tend to be drawn into lucrative maths-needing careers, leaving the next generation of writers to be drawn from the set of people who Cannot Do Math.
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