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    Player RiyahArp's Avatar
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    Riyah Arpeggio
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    Exodus
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    Scholar Lv 90
    Eh, think of it this way. Remember Diabolos's first appearance in a dungeon? You had to pay attention to which two doors had symbols on them and go through them to avoid wiping. It's just two symbols, right? But I'm willing to bet enough people struggle with that to where once ilvl got decent enough, taking the hit and brute forcing it was an option. for a few people, math is like that in this. I mean, they can do it in their real lives just like you could play a memory game and find two alike symbols. But in the middle of a battle, it is a lot rougher if you aren't good at memory antics and multitasking.

    And look, math in general is rough precisely because most people's lives don't deal with symbolism and abstraction to high levels. People learn calculation by rote teaching and drilling, but go to a community college basic algebra class, and you find a lot of adults struggle with that. You don't go out and calculate how tall of a ladder you need by geometry when you need to get to the roof, like the word problems say. If you are in STEM careers, that abstraction is very valuable because so much of that work is logical and symbolic, but I don't think most people would pass a basic algebra test if it were administered.
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    Last edited by RiyahArp; 06-05-2018 at 02:17 PM.