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The Magic of Reality
for the iPad
Sean Faircloth:
Attack of the Theocrats!
There's nothing wrong with shortcuts - as long as you are ready to question your results! Example: The bat costs one dollar and the ball ten cents. Check: One dollar is only ninety cents more than ten cents, so let's try the mean value one dollar and five cents. Check: correct! It's far more likely that a smart person would solve the problem like this than by using equations.
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