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{{quote|'''Black Mage''': 2 + 2 {{=}} 4
'''Fighter''': You can't transform numbers into other numbers like that. It'd just go on forever. That's like Witchcraft! |''[[8-
{{quote|You know, I don't think math is a science. I think its a religion. All these equations are like miracles, you take two numbers and when you add them they magically become a ''new'' number! And no one can say how it happens. You either believe in it or you don't.
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'''Calvin''': I prefer to savor the mystery.|[[Calvin and Hobbes|another from Calvin and Hobbes]]}}
{{quote|''I always had a much easier time learning math when it was being applied to a problem whose answer I was interested in — that meant something to me, and I could picture. You say “There’s a 5-meter ball rolling down an inclined plane with this many degrees and that has this rotational inertia. Figure out how quickly it’ll accelerate.” That sounds boring to me. But if you ask, “[[Raiders of the Lost Ark|Could Indiana Jones really have outrun that boulder]]?” It’s the same problem''|Randall Munroe, in conversation with Alvin Powell, ''[https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/09/randall-munroe-and-the-power-of-what-if/ The Harvard Gazette]}}
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