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Originally posted by Lebell
Or as my science teacher once said, it's much more valuable to know where to find information than to memorize it.
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One of my professors said something similar... he said, "I'm not here to teach you to think mathematics. I'm here to teach you how to think like a Mathematician." And he would never ask for memorization of anything except how to find the specific information we needed to complete problems.
So, if I need an actual number for Pi, I can get the first 10,000 digits
here. But, in order to do
exact calculations, I'll just use π.