Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. The first person's "starts with three" misconception is because they aren't linking 3 × 0 to the equivalent English phrase "zero, three times". They think "three times" means something different in Arithmetic than it does in English, but it doesn't.
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Kids learn that [ 3 × ] is pronounced "three times" and assume they are learning a new definition of the word "times"—the name for the symbol [ × ]—but it's simpler than that. You say "three times" because you mean "three times", as in one time more than twice.
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Trump's presidential posting has hugely vindicated my lifelong distrust of and disdain toward people who misuse capital letters like that. It's such a reliable indicator of an incapable brain.
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the Saints do need a new innings eater now that Dobnak is gone...
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they don't want you to know how tasty the inside of a Ni-Cd battery is
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11-year-olds are taught simple arithmetic, which is all that's needed to calculate something like 1000*(1+0.05)(1+0.05)(1+0.05)*… . Sufficient wisdom to utilize simple arithmetic when assessing risk is something that either develops with maturity or doesn't.
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It's not like there was any untarnished legacy before this photo. Brown had been beating his girlfriends and wives bloody for decades at this point, including Tammi Terrell when she was 17 and he was nearly 30.
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too little haloperidol, apparently
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Yes. It's all sucrose. Granulated sugar contains either or both. I'm saying the priority for the RFK people is to read the words "cane sugar" on the nutrition label. If it contained sucrose from beets, that's not how the sugar would be described.
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I don't think sugar beets are going to benefit. RFK followers don't believe in chemistry, so the tantrum demanding "cane sugar" will not be satisfied by beet sugar. You can't introduce the concept of "sucrose", because they'll say it sounds like a chemical, and they don't eat chemicals.