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A common joke among students when I was in my computer-science program: when asked a how-many or how-much question that involved basic arithmetic, one would re
by bradford 8y ago
A common joke among students when I was in my computer-science program:
when asked a how-many or how-much question that involved basic arithmetic, one would reply:
"Yeah, I can't do that. That's applied math".
- ska 8y agoThe math equivalent was "I'm a mathematician, not an arithmetician", or a variant. It's true though, lots of mathematicians are lousy at arithmetic.