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Which is basically never, if you're not a developer or statistician.



Actually everybody needs it, they just outsource it to somebody who can do it better than them.

The real problem is you can cannot find a language which you don't speak, useful.

The only reason why things like Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division come easily even to people without any education is because it has to become a part of their everyday vocabulary if you have to as little as start a lemonade stand. If Im not wrong Arabs arrived at algebra trying to workout inheritance laws from the Quran. Want to build a home, you can only brute force that much, eventually you are likely to invent the Pythagoras theorem, measurement techniques, myriad other geometrical methods.

All this is possible because if you have to do a thing, anything at all, well, you have to arrive at the most logically consistent formulation of the problem. That helps you to not only do it well, but do it right.

The real question there fore is introducing Math in a way it becomes a part of people vocabulary and general language.




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