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BouzoukiKing

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28. Even in freeperville...

Wed Nov 7, 2012, 10:29 AM

Nov 2012

...they're kind of scratching their heads, and asking questions about these 'number things'.

And y'know, we should help them. Because if we can get them - nicely - to accept the idea of math in just one thing, we might be able to sway a few of them to believe the math on something else. Like... Climate Change.

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