>>> Well, everyone has a special talent:  you have good math skills.
>>
>> I'm not sure where everybody gets this idea from. I have no idea how 
>> to perform polynomial division, complete the square, factorise 
>> polynomials, compute triangle angles or any number of other basic 
>> school-level math tasks. (Not forgetting of course that I have *no 
>> idea* what 7 * 6 is without getting out pencil and paper to calculate 
>> it.)
> 
> well, I thought your alias mathorchid and Haskell affinity would have 
> anything to do with it.  Your fractal renderings too...

Heh, well, perhaps. Still, you don't need to know any maths at all to 
install and run FractInt.

> How are you supposed to know about basic school-level math stuff when 
> you didn't go to a normal school?

That's about the size of it, really.

> And forget that, you're way past that 
> basic level, you're now an advanced math geek using computers to do the 
> low-level math glue code... :D

Haha, well maybe. It just seems like there's a whole crapload of math I 
don't understand that everybody else does. But maybe that's just because 
I'm surrounded by people way smarter than me...

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