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David Kanter
OK.
No, one graduates from a school, one matriculates into a school. It was an entrance exam to be admitted to the high achool. Note that this was not an upscale, private school, but a public high school establishing a minimum skill set for its students.
It this I'm not sure this was an ordinary public school, but that's sort of irrelevant. Sorry I didn't finish answering your question there. I'd expect smoothness to be understood in...
OK.
Bzzzzt. Wrong answer. The arthmetic would be done by a computers. The math would be done by humans. Then the software would be done by humans. And since the only way to check that the math and the software would be to audit the results, one would need humans capable of handling (in the sense of confirming) the arithmetic.
You're drifting into math again rather than the applied-engineering areas where intuition is worthless and computational skills are critical. It may be that you have never experienced an environment where computation trumps intuition and insight, but I butture you that such environments abound.
To a math person, maybe.
OK smoothness, continuity and analyticity are all nice. BUT when do you start teaching people that functions with even C0...
No, kids trying to enter high shool.
Sure. I used to tutor HS kids in math. I quit around '90 (15 years worth) when I saw that most of them were struggling with exponentiation, logarithms, and simple, univariate algebra. Those things should not be part of the HS curriculum.
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