(December 15, 2021 at 11:55 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Most people do basic algebra every day and are blissfully unaware of it. I had a friend who swore she couldn't do it until I asked her what she thought she was doing every time she did a cost estimate for a client based on the dimensions of the project. I wouldn't want to write out formally what she was doing in her head.
Algebra is just arithmetic with letters.