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It's a great shame more people don't get involved in it. i think maths is a wonderful thing and it is very easy to say you are no good at it, so any opportunity to learn and embrace it, great. did you say 1946? straight after the war. what did you get then? i don't know, but it must have been a very basic pass, i think. i don't think it was very startling. this time around, what was the most stark difference for you, in terms of the exam and what you had to do? i think one of the things was, in my day, we had things called slide rules, i don't know if anybody remembers slide rules. and nowaday...

I do remember using a slide rule at school. if i'm honest, i never really understood the slide rule. but i remember using them, or pretending to. i think you are not the only person who didn't understand it! you could do things, you can do things and slide them along and you can multiply six by three and get an answer. approximately 18! it is always approximate. didn't you also have to take in a magnifying glass? yes, yes, my eyesight is not very good so i took along a magnifying glass and it was a great help. because numbers like six and eight get a bit mixed up. and you find that the additio...

Don't get involved in it. i think maths is a wonderful thing and it is very easy to say you are no good at it, any opportunity to learn and embrace it, great. did you say 19a6? straight after the war. what did you get then? i don't know, but it must have been a very basic pass, i think. i don't think it was very startling. this time around, what was the most stark difference for you in terms of the exam and what you had to do? i think one of the things was in my day, we had things called slide rules, i don't know if anybody remembers slide rules. and nowadays you have got something called a ca...

Lovely thing to do. these are some of his own quotes. i'm obviously a bit slower, ifound of his own quotes. i'm obviously a bit slower, i found that i switched off at times, my rain just stopped working for a minute or two. i did run out of time, i had a go at most questions except the ones i thought looked complicated which i thought i would have time to go back to. that's the sensible way to approach it. he that's the sensible way to approach it. ., , that's the sensible way to approach it. . , , . ., it. he was reminiscing that when he was a teenager. _ it. he was reminiscing that when he w...

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