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by colomon 4426 days ago
1. I'm implemented the quadratic formula in software more than twice over the years, I think. In, you know, real programs I was paid money to write.

2. Have you ever been in a life-or-death situation where anything you learned in class in high school was useful to you? "Well, I would have died, but then I remembered that Julius Caesar's last three words were not actually 'Et tu, Brute!' according to Shakespeare..."