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>>> 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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