how far?
i spend all
day holed up
making
calculations. after
doing it for so
long, you
begin to notice
that you can
plug in all the right
numbers for the
formula,
but it doesn't necessarily mean
that you'll always
get a good
answer, or
that you'll
even get
one at all.
a word problem fully
demonstrates this
demarcation:
if in ten
years' time,
i'm typing out memos in
some corporate function
and making math from
seven figures for the
account of
mr. jack-in-giant's-
house (and his
children's-children's
children),
how far
have
i gotten?