What good math should be

Tales for a train
Tales for a train
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6 min readNov 16, 2021

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You are a five-year-old kid learning about how to sum a couple of digits, nothing so big that your little sausage fingers cannot count. In the process of doing so it is easy for you to understand that if you have one cookie in front of you and somebody comes with another cookie for you, that you then have two cookies and a big smile.

Things started to complicate themselves when they gave you things to multiply and…

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Tales for a train
Tales for a train

The wagon looks familiar, and you think you know the trail.But you’ll never live the journey thrice, if you never hear the same tale twice.