Computerless.

[Bluhman]

I dont get you felix. No offense but your post is just an unrelated math thing. Fruck and Zerlina actually said something that had something to do with the topic, and were kinda funny.
Anyway, I think sarcasm is pretty easy to tell on the internet.

It is not.

[Archem]

(2x+3)(8x+12)
Solve!

Can't. We don't know what x is, and we don't have an answer to the equation to work with.

I would have loved to work that bitch out, had you not half-assed it.

[fruckert]

You can't solve, but you can kinda simplify it.
Which I don't feel like doing cause I hate math.

[Archem]

Solve ≠ simplify.

[SaiKar]

There's no such thing as a "best number." You might end up with a messy decimal or something, but the answer is the answer. After you get out of school people stop making math problems that are designed to have whole, round numbers, so you'd best get used to it.

x is -0.940983ish in that example.

[SaiKar]

It's still solvable. Plug my number in: you'll find it's correct.

And nobody plans on doing math when they get out of school. That's why credit card debt is sky-high and people find themselves with houses they can't pay for. But hey, I don't judge, I'm just making sure I'm ahead of the game.

[SaiKar]

-2.059ish, yeah.

Math backgrounds aren't all that bad if you're not going into a theoretical field. I'm an engineer but I do shockingly little real calculations. The computers do most of the grunt work. Most of my math background is based on looking at the results and being able to go "wait, no, this isn't right at all" if something's screwed up.

[Emerates]

In today's world, that's all you really need.  I can do the same thing with a piece of music nowadays, which is great.  Also, math is important, kids.