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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Ah - I have heard of that. And I suspect that, just like dyslexia, it is often a more serious problem for academic school work than for real life.
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Quite so. I have difficulty entering serial numbers... but how often do I need to do that? I have difficulty using a calculator, but I only need that about once every 2-3 months...
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The task is to make sums that add up to each number (1,2,3,...) in turn.
If we were unlimited in the numbers we could use, this would be trivial.
So we are limited to using exactly four specific numbers (1,3,5,7) in our sums.
1*(3+5-7) = 1
1+3+5-7 = 2
etc.
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Wow! I understood that! It's remarkable that it's just the actual numbers that create the difficulty, not the process. But then, that's how I managed to get through 'Financial Management' in my MBA program. The Prof exempted me from actually working out the numbers as long as I could apply the correct process and knew which formula was needed for each scenario.
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