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Agreed. I always found it interesting to hear of child math prodigies, and then to never hear of them again. There seems to be a limit to the progress of human understanding, and it doesn't matter at all if you hit that limit at 5 or 14 or 70. Most people never hit that limit, and those that...

Thanks very much for the advice. It's interesting because on problem sets I can converse with myself in my head about how to approach a problem, and it works very well for me. On the test that's just gone and I go on autopilot, and that certainly doesn't seem to work. I'll try all the night...

On the last two calc I tests I got a 92 and an 86, respectively. All entirely due to calculation errors, and I really don't know how to stop making them. Starting at about an hour before class and all the way through an exam, I get mind-numbing anxiety attacks. I feel like I'm completely rushing...

TL;DR: Unfortunately, I'm left with (what I feel is) a bit of a dilemma. I still feel fairly behind in math. I have the standard k-12 math curriculum down fine, but there are many topics that seem interesting and important that I feel I should've touched on years ago. Am I right in thinking...

http://www.ncert.nic.in/NCERTS/textbook/textbook.htm The standard textbooks can be found there for free. They look pretty good, actually :smile: Enjoy!

Assuming we're talking about simple interest, Total~Interest = Principal \times Interest~Rate \times Time Where time has to be in the same interval as the interest rate. You just need to convert your time interval from years to months. Then for a final equation, multiply the monthly...

Hubert Cumberdale, of course.

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