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    Courses Any advice for adult learners, or learning from online courses?

    @lisab Thanks for the reply. Taking an in-person class might provide some benefits, but at the moment, it's not an option given the nature of my mom's work. She also enjoys online courses because they allow her to move at her own pace, and because they allow her to stop or repeat lectures...
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    Courses Any advice for adult learners, or learning from online courses?

    Hi all, My mom has always wanted to go back to school, but could not due to work and having to take care of the family. I recently showed her some free online courses offered by Stanford, and she's expressed interest in two of them: Anatomy http://www.anatomy-class.org/ and Model Thinking...
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    A prime by itself is considered a (length one) product of primes?

    Thanks for the replies so far. I certainly understand that a prime can only be divided by 1 and itself without a remainder. But how is a prime a product of primeS? "If the number is prime, then it can only have one prime factor and that is itself." I completely agree. So if 3 is a...
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    A prime by itself is considered a (length one) product of primes?

    Hi all, I am spending some time learning discrete mathematics on my own using the MIT OpenCourseWare materials. On page the second to last page of the Chapter 2 notes from here...
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