Lockhart's Lament is partly him just getting mad and asking what the point of math class is at all Like the traditionalists say the really important thing isn't all this highfalutin philosophical bullshit, it's whether you can work out the square root of 7 with a pencil if asked
Now I'm working on the number 2400 in order to get the third digit of the square root This all takes much more time to talk about than to actually do but you can see that like long division it's tedious but simple and mechanical
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It's the kind of thing you learn how to do if you want to impress people, like memorizing trivia
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You can see that knowing how to do this is kind of cool and gives you a certain degree of understanding of how numbers work, like the explanation (it's applying the formula we all learned in algebra for expanding a binomial squared to decimal places!) ks legitimately elegant
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