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 Math people say that math in highschool is taught in the wrong way, (the 'memorizing a formula and then applying it to solve problems' way). But how are you supposed to really go about it if that's not how you should do it. Any books that do? - Quora
https://archive.ph/3ifyc

In what sense does general relativity say that gravity is a product of 'all things wanting to be where time moves slowest'? Kip Thorne describes this as the most fundamental aspect of GR, more fundamental than the bending of space-time. - Quora
https://archive.ph/YXmeH

Do computer programmers have to memorise the entire C++ language code in order to find a job? - Quora
https://archive.ph/pDlEK

If evolution weren't false, how do evolutionists explain that evolutionism didn't become law? If it were true and authentic, it would be called 'the law of evolution' and not 'the theory of evolution', why is it still a theory? - Quora
https://archive.ph/U3FNb

What, according to you, is the strangest mathematical function? - Quora
https://archive.ph/aeCCv