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How to think like a mathematician
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Can You Just State the Intermediate Value Theorem Without Their Size?
I'm a pure mathematician, which is usually taken to mean that I do stuff that's so abstract and it's absolutely nothing to do with real life. So there has to be some point in the middle before it became a big carrot when it was a little carrot. It's the Intermediate Value Theorem. There's an example in your book where you can use mathematics to try to think more clearly about problems. And it was the famous case in 2018 of the bakers that refused to bake cake for a same-sex wedding. Yes, yes. Well they have baby carrots, because it grows right. That's the intermediate value theorem. You just rotate the table and it will fine,
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