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> I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;) How many singaporeans are top math students at cambridge? If
by liftbigweights 8y ago
> I would call him a good, hardworking student. (At least that's what we'd call it in Singapore ;)
How many singaporeans are top math students at cambridge? If hard work is all that it took, we'd all be studying math at cambridge.
> Coincidentally me and Xu went to high school at the same time in Singapore)
"Coincidentally Xu and I..."
> Let's take the top 20 universities across the world (harvards,mits, tsinghuas, iits etc.) and take the top 10 graduating students from each class (math, physics, etc.) => are we saying that the world is producing 500-1000 prodigies every year?
I'd say there are far more prodigies than that being produced every year. You do realize that there are 7 billion people on earth right?
You don't have to be newton or einstein to be a prodigy. Most prodigies never live up to their expectations. Maybe you use the word differently in singapore than in the US.