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Ebolamonk3y
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I want an honest opinion of this... so...
What matters more?
The answer or the process leading up to it?
For those who know Feynman or Ramanujan... you know their magician abilities...
Yet some people, especially teachers or AP exams, love for you to show everything, the work, and the answer is worth everybit as much as the process leading up to it...
So I wonder... Is the work a delusion? Some just keep solving problems without an answer... And the worse is when there is no "answer in the back of the book" that leaves one to doubt their "work" and "steps" and, the demon of all, "arithemtic mistakes." Yet, in the end, we get an answer or we get nothing... time passes, an answer, time passes, an answer or bunch of paper gone...
So...some can get lost in the little stuff and never come out of the mess... then what? is that really problem solving or just another pass time activity that yields nothing?
Ponder about that...
LOL, for me, if I just start cranking out Integrals in my head or with some weird method, I be a little scared...
Maybe not...
Chang
What matters more?
The answer or the process leading up to it?
For those who know Feynman or Ramanujan... you know their magician abilities...
Yet some people, especially teachers or AP exams, love for you to show everything, the work, and the answer is worth everybit as much as the process leading up to it...
So I wonder... Is the work a delusion? Some just keep solving problems without an answer... And the worse is when there is no "answer in the back of the book" that leaves one to doubt their "work" and "steps" and, the demon of all, "arithemtic mistakes." Yet, in the end, we get an answer or we get nothing... time passes, an answer, time passes, an answer or bunch of paper gone...
So...some can get lost in the little stuff and never come out of the mess... then what? is that really problem solving or just another pass time activity that yields nothing?
Ponder about that...
LOL, for me, if I just start cranking out Integrals in my head or with some weird method, I be a little scared...
Maybe not...
Chang