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by lostcolony 4421 days ago
This. So much this. Arithmetic is bookkeeping, it's turning an elegant abstract process into an ugly solved instance through rote mechanical labor.

In most of my college math classes, I largely 'got' it, but what killed me, and many other students, was the arithmetic. We could take multiple integrals, but dammit, 2*3 /= 5. Thank God for partial credit.