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***** Like what, calling those things '''''x''''' and '''''y'''''? We don't usually do that outside of school on the fly, even on the top of our heads. Not only it's troublesome, but is silly and takes too much time and energy to solve [[Department of Redundancy Department|in our heads]].
***** The [[Mundane Utility]] that comes with Math is only realized if [[Fridge Logic|you THINK REAL HARD about it]]. When I was a kid, I used to get errands to buy this and that from there and here. So my mom always gives an amount far more greater than the value of what we are actually going to buy, ''even before I knew how much I'm going to buy''. Only when I ''actually'' buy that thing, then I know that if you give $100.00 to buy something worth $49.99, I would get $50.01. And if I just so lose that single cent, Mum will know that something's [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]. So after I did just that a million times, only then did I realize that Math DOES have [[Mundane Utility]].
***** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: If I'm betting at the [[Superpower Lottery]], I would rather have a [[Game Breaker]] ability like that of [[
** Also, knowing geometric relationships is a good idea when drawing anything. I don't know what kind of artistic complexity or realism you're hoping to get into, but knowing proper perspective and scaling is really important for making things look right. People who are good at picturing things spatially usually honed this ability in math and science.
*** Although no one can deny that math is important, I personally think more weight should be given to language skills (and that's not just because I'm an English major). Think about it: Your language is the one discipline that you will be using ''every single chucklefucking day of your life.'' Even if you don't say a word out loud all day long, you're still thinking in English (or Japanese or Spanish or Urdu or whatever), and if you go the whole day without ''thinking,'' you're either comatose or dead. Or very, very good at Zen. And yet the world is full of people who can barely write their own language without screwing up every other word. Am I the only one who sees something wrong with this picture?
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