• Ashen44@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    every maths professor I’ve had in college told me to use the simplest numbers possible in my answers because arithmetic is annoying.

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      Imagine if you had one of the greatest piano players in history offering to play you something, and you ask him to play the opening bars of “Heart and Soul”, three times in a row.

      Yes, they could do it, and do it perfectly… But why would they want to do that when Claire De Lune or Für Elise exist. And yes, those are still fairly basic in the grand scheme of things but heart and soul is boring AF.