I don’t want to belabor this point (but apparently I do, since I’m replying to my own post 2 hours later), but your idea of going back and counting undergraduat

I don’t want to belabor this point (but apparently I do, since I’m replying to my own post 2 hours later), but your idea of going back and counting undergraduate work — when it isn’t even related — is simply padding for padding sake. Why stop there? Why not 4 years of high school, too? Aren’t they prerequisites? I mean you can go back all the way to preschool, since counting is a prerequisite to math, and hell, is a whole section of discrete math. But you don’t, because claiming you need 25 years of mathematical training sounds ludicrous.