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"Never memorize what you can look up in books." -- Albert Einstein

• pavanky 14y ago
  Never memorize anything you can derive.
  • lostlogin 14y ago
    Yes. Memorizing answers when learning the method is possible. Takes longer, but you tend not to forget. The reams of notes I used to watch people take to avoid learning the method and equation.
  • bostonpete 14y ago
    Addition and multiplication tables might be a good exception to this...
• kaybe 14y ago
  Or the case of Feynman and the cat map: http://unreasonable.org/node/3426 http://unreasonable.org/node/3426
• deleted 14y ago
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