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by Suppafly 385 days ago
>And that's useless for actual math.

Agreed. The schools always seem to have these learning adjacent things that are theoretically supposed to make subjects engaging, but in reality are so disconnected from the subject that they are meaningless.

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Even the games/puzzles from Martin Gardner are a much better solution than memorizing a random... string. Because pi is not about 3.1415... but a proportion.