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Why One Plus One Equals Two

Maths is very creative, we can draw pictures and find patterns. But there's this idea of needing to understand and resolve it. I all fell apart from you practically when it was about the slide rule. They don't use the slide rules, but slide rules were a thing in new maths - weren't they? Slide rules are, I would say, happily, now rather defunct.

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