He's gonna hate algebra as much as I did. I was good at it, but
  I still hated it. I especially hated the elimination of
  variables. Always struck me that you're losing valuable
  information because a "simple elegant formula" CAN'T be
  back-traced to its origin without outside knowledge being added
  into it. But now I'm about to go into my "why
  programming-for-math-is-better" rant so I'll hush before i do
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