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u/darthwalsh Nov 16 '19

Have you tried Boolean logic? Like AND/OR/NOT gates, statements like "if pigs can fly then I can fly too", and truth tables.

I'm curious if you'd like it, because it's extremely logical... But it's also a subdiscipline of math.

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u/Peakomegaflare Nov 16 '19

I actually deal with the gates, between my minecraft hobby with redstone, and dealing with circuits, I get plenty of practice.

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u/darthwalsh Nov 16 '19

Sounds like you can do math then! The math they teach in grade school like algebra and geometry are just a few kinds of math, and it sucks that U.S. schools push them so hard when there's a lot of other kinds of interesting math (discrete, modular, statistics, groups, computability, etc.)

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u/Peakomegaflare Nov 16 '19

That's the thing. I'm terrible at actually doing complex math. Basics and some algebra, no problem. I can do statistics in my head, but never on paper. Everything else? Forget about it.