> time. Later I got caught doing a question that way by my math
> teacher and he asked who showed me that. I told him I'd come up
> with it myself, so he wrote down a Super long Algebra question
> and told me to try that one. It took me a minute or so longer
> than usual but I did sort it out, and he informed me what I'd
> just done was 2nd year level University Calculus.
> 
> I'd never even heard of Calculus before that. (It was a Grade 13
> math course at that time.) It was actually rather disappointing.
> I thought I'd invented something new..  B)
 
I took algebra and calculus in school, and had to take a semester of calc
in college.  I have never, ever thought of it as a shortcut to figuring
anything out.    I guess maybe it works that way if you really know what 
you are doing.
 
Mike
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