August 13th, 2020
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In Good Will Hunting (1997), Will's notebook is full of very basic math, suggesting the whole movie is his delusion.
August 13th, 2020
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RiseofdaOatmeal
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tornado28
Yeah, it's got a lot of actual numbers in it. Advanced math is generally more abstract, which means more symbols and fewer actual numbers. But it's not like mathematicians never use numbers. Working an actual example with actual numbers can build intuition.
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The_Great_Sarcasmo
CuzYourMovesAreWeak
That's hilarious.
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TheTransparentOtter
I feel like this is only true in general cases. If you're working out a real world example out you would replace the place holder symbols and letters with real numbers. Also with these examples using a graph or something to help visualize the data is common, like the one in the upper left..... I think.
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tornado28
Honestly the only time I'd ever do algebra with actual decimal numbers is if I was working with a student who wasn't fully comfortable with the idea that a symbol could represent a number. I'll always use a symbol for the number, first because it's shorter to write and second because then at the end I get to see what formula I derived - that often gives some additional insight and sanity checking. The actual values of the numbers get fed into a computer at the end and are otherwise pretty unimportant.
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Danny_Mc_71
I'm 80% sure this is simple maths, that leaves me 30% unsure.
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nrith
It’s not that simple.
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planethaley
It’s exceedingly simple math. It might be
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RayBrower
Simple math for me is like 6 times 5.
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planethaley
Well, as long as you don’t work in mathematics, that’s just fine :)
But considering the math his character was supposedly capable of teaching himself at a master level, it just doesn’t really line up with the stuff written in the notebook.
Like. If you had a notebook where you wrote down:
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6....” as of it were interesting math to muse about :p
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big_fat_Panda
Going from "6 times 5" to "5 times 68" in your head isn't that hard.
Just do it in two steps like 5 70 - 5 2 or 5 60 + 5 8. Those are pretty easy to do in your head in about five seconds.
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TylerDurdenJunior
It's just OP humble bragging
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Wajirock
That stuff is easy to solve with a calculator.
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mr_bots
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StarkillerX42
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tornado28
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4apalehorse
"A dweam, wifin a dweam"
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So tweasure your wuv
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Lessiarty
Yeah, this is pretty clearly prop math just to give a layman a sense of "Ooh, mathematics!" unless something else corroborates this.
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WaldenFont
The "baguette and celery" of prop math notebooks
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4apalehorse
I agree, after all he does solve the unsolvable problem on the chalkboard.
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taylaj
This is simple with a calculator, or long hand. but if he'd been doing it in his head this is pretty difficult.
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PoopMobile9000
Yeah, it’s the same reason why the main character’s catchy hit song usually isn’t that catchy, the artist’s brilliant poem is kinda lame, and the scientist’s genius insight makes no intuitive sense: screenwriters are good at screenwriting, not those other things.
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Yeah I really hated the 'big song' from A Star is Born. It's annoyingly unfinished!
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thiqdikkflex
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meteorknife
People will say its just simple math, but if someone asks you what 3 x (price of something with decimals) is, I bet almost everyone would pull out a calculator or need to write it down.
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thiqdikkflex
honestly sometimes you just gotta visualise the stuff
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TractorMan90
That's still simple math. It's still just a multiplication process. Advanced math would involve reducing the equation or multiplying multiple equations until you get an answer in which you can then use simple math to solve. Even if that simple math is 3x$45.67, but it took advanced math to get to that point.
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