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... formulas came too fast . " They wanted more time to wrap their own intelligence and intuition ( their " creativ- ity " ) around exploratory questions ; to be given the formula or the explanation only later when they had exhausted their ...
... formulas came too fast . " They wanted more time to wrap their own intelligence and intuition ( their " creativ- ity " ) around exploratory questions ; to be given the formula or the explanation only later when they had exhausted their ...
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... formulas and constants , and one must memo- rize these and understand why one is required to do so . But memorization is not enough . One must understand the dimensions of a formula , why it has those dimensions and how those dimensions ...
... formulas and constants , and one must memo- rize these and understand why one is required to do so . But memorization is not enough . One must understand the dimensions of a formula , why it has those dimensions and how those dimensions ...
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... formula that would produce the results we were looking for ... His logic seemed backwards to me . I wanted to start with a formula which would be concrete [ italics added ] and ... formulas I need . When Mike and Tom arrived , the focal 65.
... formula that would produce the results we were looking for ... His logic seemed backwards to me . I wanted to start with a formula which would be concrete [ italics added ] and ... formulas I need . When Mike and Tom arrived , the focal 65.
Contents
Introduction | 4 |
The Eric Experiment | 19 |
Jacki and Michele | 33 |
Copyright | |
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