The Back of the Book

 

The fourth root of 1

There are four answers.

Discuss.

1 minute

Seriously, discuss, I’ll wait.

 

No...no one?

I understand your confusion,

There is a negative 1% chance that you would know it

 

Just kidding, that’s a made up stat.

I don’t mean to be negative, I

Just hoped one of you would take the plunge,

Discuss something we all hate,

Complicated math,

Things that won’t help us in our future.

Our future, hmm.

 

Maybe that’s what scares us more than math,

The uncertainty,

The probability that we might need to use vectors

When we get older.

 

I get it,

You never know what’s ahead,

And you might not know what’s afoot either,

But we all have to take our Manifest Destiny at some point.

Expand into the road less traveled,

Adulthood.

 

While you’re there use some math,

It will do you good to remember those times

When you thought it was going to be hard,

Because you didn’t know the answers,

But I gave them to you long ago,

You already have all you need.

 

So tell me

The fourth root of 1

No…no one?

I understand your confusion

There was a negative 1% chance

You would know it

 

Just kidding,

That’s a made up stat.

I don’t mean to be negative, I

Just hoped one of you

Would take the plunge

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