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by lexandstuff 3895 days ago
If you can grasp all those things in less than a week, than congratulations: you're a once-in-a-lifetime genius.

If it takes you years to grasp all those things like the majority of us, then that's fine too.

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I have also been in class with 20-other once in a lifetime geniuses, and probably a total of 120 in my high school. And there was a whole chain of schools that specialized in math in the country. One per county.

From what I hear in MIT they give you the complete scheme language at the first lecture.

He asked about aptitude.